![]() Morale songs, also contributed vocals on one. Previously produced “Cartoon & Cereal” and Baby Keem’s “Vent,” featuring Lamar. This album pulls together collaborators from across Lamar’s career, including: When Lamar finds someone he likes to work with, he keeps them close. Morale” gets darker, digging into family issues and abuse. At first listen, the songs on “Big Steppers” sound more upbeat, touching on Lamar’s dating and relationships, while “Mr. (At 73 minutes, though, it’s shorter than 2015’s To Pimp a Butterfly, which clocks in at 79 minutes.) And those songs are split into two sides (sorry, volumes), “Big Steppers” and “Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers logs 18 tracks, the most stuffed album of Lamar’s career. ![]() Morale, but he did tease that it might be a double album when he posted a photo of two CDs to his website,. Details were few and far between before Lamar released Mr. On “Worldwide Steppers,” he raps that he had “writer’s block for two years, nothing moved me” - adding an explanation for that long, long wait. “One thousand eight hundred fifty-five days.” That’s five years and 30 days, or the precise amount of time since he released DAMN. Morale gets extremely topical when it comes to the past few years, addressing the COVID-19 pandemic on songs like “N95” and “Savior.” “Mother I Sober” references Baby Keem’s song “Family Ties,” released in August 2021, and “Father Time” references Ye and Drake’s reunion concert, which took place in December 2021.Īs for what Lamar himself says? “I’ve been going through something,” he declares at the outset of opening track “United in Grief. ![]() Morale.īut while K.Dot was scheduled to headline big festivals like Glastonbury in 2020, fueling speculation about new music, the album couldn’t have been finished by that point. Also in 2020, Lamar talked to his cousin Baby Keem in an interview for i-D about new music, and spending “a whole year” thinking about his “new sound.” And 2020 was, of course, the year Lamar launched his “at-service” company, pgLang, which co-released Mr. Thundercat, who co-wrote two tracks on the project, mentioned working on new music with Lamar in 2020. Days after releasing DAMN., Lamar was already talking about having new music - but that could very well have been songs for Black Panther or features. ![]()
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