After the first verse of "DNA" was recorded with the beat that Mike Will had already prepared, Lamar started rapping the second verse a cappella, requesting that Mike Will build the beat around the rap. " DNA" was the second song from the album to be recorded by Lamar and Mike Will, after " Humble". After recording, it was initially agreed upon that it would be released on Mike Will's debut album Ransom 2, but others convinced Lamar to keep it for his own next album. The beat for "Humble" was developed by Mike Will with the intention of recording with Gucci Mane, but later showed it to Lamar. In 2020, the album was ranked 175th on Rolling Stone 's updated list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. It became the first non-jazz or classical work to earn a Pulitzer Prize for Music and won Best Rap Album at the 2018 Grammy Awards, as well receiving a nomination for Album of the Year at the ceremony. Damn was certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in May 2018 and was also the Billboard Year-End number one album of 2017.ĭamn topped The Village Voice 's Pazz & Jop critics poll and was named one of the best albums of 2017 and the decade by several other publications. It was supported by three official singles: " Humble", " Loyalty", and " Love", the first of which became Lamar's first number-one single on the US Billboard Hot 100 as a lead artist.
It also topped the chart of Canada while reaching number two in Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Damn features appearances from singers Rihanna and Top Dawg singer Zacari, along with Irish rock band U2.ĭamn received widespread critical acclaim and topped the US Billboard 200 with 603,000 album-equivalent units earned in its first week. The album features production from a variety of record producers, including executive producer and Top Dawg Entertainment label-head Anthony "Top Dawg" Tiffith, Sounwave, DJ Dahi, Mike Will Made It, and Ricci Riera as well as further production contributions from James Blake, Steve Lacy, BadBadNotGood, Greg Kurstin, The Alchemist, and 9th Wonder, among others. It was released on April 14, 2017, through Top Dawg Entertainment, Aftermath Entertainment and Interscope Records. Damn (stylized as DAMN.) is the fourth studio album by American rapper Kendrick Lamar. Lamar also performed “ untitled 02” on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and performed another untitled song from the album on The Colbert Report as the show’s final musical guest. “But I think probably close to 10 songs that I’m in love with that I’ll still play and still perform that didn’t make the cut.” “I got a chamber of material from the album that I was in love where sample clearances or something as simple as a deadline kept it off the album,” Lamar said in an interview with that was continued on 2 Dope Boyz. He said that it came from one of the tracks that did not make To Pimp a Butterfly. Lamar performed an untitled track during the Grammys. Earlier in the week, Tiffith had teased that a new Lamar album would be coming out in 2016 in an Instagram post, which showed a photo of a whiteboard with the words “KDot ? (GET TOP ON THE PHONE)” on it, along with other upcoming TDE releases. thank for this… #TDE.” Tiffith thanked LeBron James for coaxing the album’s release after James had tweeted at him to release the music following Lamar’s Grammy performance. By Thursday evening, Top Dawg Entertainment CEO Anthony Tiffith confirmed that the album would be released later that night, and he made good on the promise when he shared a tweet, saying, “Go get it,” with a link to the album.Įarly on Thursday evening, Tiffith wrote on Instagram, “Yeah muthafuckers KING KENDRICK returns 2night.
Each of the eight album tracks are listed as untitled with the addition of dates that span 2013 to 2016. On Thursday, speculation of a new Kendrick Lamar project surfaced after an album titled untitled unmastered. was posted on Lamar’s Spotify page.
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