Kendrick Lamar Is Back, and Right on Time 5. Gruttadaro: “I GOT, I GOT, I GOT, I GOT.”
I felt like a bystander in an ankle-breaking crossover Vine. The idea - one American bard saluting another - is thrilling on its own.īereznak: Definitely the “Let me put the head in” refrain on “Lust.” Damn.Ĭhau: The end of “Duckworth” melted my face off. I even don’t care if it’s actually the proper sample. I had to pull my car over when it came on. The beat drops out in its place is a scratchy, faded, warped-vinyl sample of a very familiar piano chord. But then I hit the 59-second mark of “XXX.,” all the way on the other side of the album. Schube: There’s a pulsing, treated chord running under “Element.,” and if you cock your ear at the right angle, it sounds like the piano from Marvin Gaye’s “Inner City Blues.” Maybe it’s intentional maybe it isn’t. Gruttadaro: The hook on “Element.” is like mainlining joy and “Pride.” is basically Kendrick Lamar doing Nirvana - but it’s impossible to ignore how hard “DNA.” goes. Schube: “Duckworth.” It’s a novel - and it’s true.
Hannah Giorgis : “DNA.” makes me feel like I could crush the entire playoffs single-handedly. Kwak: Hard to beat “Humble.,” but “Element.” is when my ears really perked up. Zoladz: “Yah.”? “Pride.”? “Loyalty.”? “Fear.”? “Duckworth.”? Ask me tomorrow.įennessey: “DNA.” This will change by Saturday morning.
Sometimes a flex is just a flex.Īlyssa Bereznak : Poor John Mayer. Sean Fennessey : Sometimes an album is just an album. Lindsay Zoladz : Imagine being this much better at your job than everyone else.Īndrew Gruttadaro : It’s so kind of Kendrick Lamar to let music journalists get an eight-month head start on their year-end top-five lists. Justin Charity : We need one of those marble jars, but instead it’s people guessing exactly how many hours of Dead Prez Kendrick listened to while recording songs for this album. What is your tweet-length review of ‘Damn.’? Here, in the light of day, Ringer staffers answer some important questions about the album, from what their favorite song is to where Damn. , late Thursday (though, to be honest, it leaked a little early, and we couldn’t help ourselves), we stayed up late into the night taking it in, replaying “DNA.” seven straight times, learning all the lyrics extra-quick (LeBron-style), and so on. DAMN.After Kendrick Lamar released his fourth studio album, Damn. Why make it small? Let's make it huge and embrace it. We wanted to make the logo part of the design not an afterthought.
It's not uber political like but it has energy. Just given the bare bones, we fleshed something out that has a lot of people talking. I wanted to make something loud and abrasive, and maybe some won't see that, but I'm glad that Dave and Dot saw the value in making something that didn't fit the mold. I sort of bucked a lot of what my teachers taught me. It's interesting to see people talk about 'bad' design, but I'm incredibly proud of this cover. "Already seeing a lot of discussion about the cover. Graphic designer Vlad Sepetov, who also worked on K.Dot's To Pimp a Butterfly cover, took to Twitter to weigh in on the image that got the internet talking. Me: /FHYh6seJEy- Daniel April 11, 2017īut if you let the man behind the artwork explain it, the decisions to make it appear abrasive, and as if it forwent all the rules of design, were intentional. Mom: don't forget to take the meat out the freezer
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