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Kendrick Lamar announces new album.
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The American rapper reveals the title and date for his forthcoming project.
American rapper, songwriter, and record producer Kendrick Lamar is back on the music scene and set to release a new album five years after taking a break.
The 34-year-old rapper on Monday turned to the internet to announce that he will be releasing his much-awaited fifth studio album,Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers, on May 13, after a five-year-long hiatus.
The announcement came in a document shared on his ‘oklama’ website, which stated: “The following statement was released today by oklama, through his company pgLang at 11:00 a.m. PT in Los Angeles, CA.”
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The document, addressed from ‘The Language Enterprises,’ contained simply the album title and release date.
“All factual information for this release will come directly from this source only,” the document also said.
“Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers” will mark Lamar’s first full album since 2017’s “DAMN,” which went on to cement its status as one of the best albums of the time.
It earned the rapper five Grammy Awards and a Pulitzer Prize for Music.
DAMN also included Lamar’s first chart-topping solo song, Humble, which went seven-times platinum.
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