The Los Angeles rapper returns with his (surprise) sixth album, itching to escape his Drake drama, but still benefiting from ...

On Kendrick Lamar’s new album, GNX, a rapper who’s obsessed with excellence tries to entertain the masses.

GNX sees Lamar step into the dad role in a new way; not so much with the introspection about his own family as on his last ...

Midway through his snarling Drake diss, “Not Like Us,” Kendrick Lamar issued a succinct, but forceful personal mission: “Sometimes you gotta pop out and show n—as.” It was both a plan of ...

Accordingly, “GNX” carries its sense of history more lightly than some of Lamar’s denser releases — though it is still an album in deep conversation with the past and present sounds of West Coast rap.