Kendrick Lamar is a person of many various faces.
The 34-year-old musician surprise-released a brand new track and accompanying music video on Sunday evening, titled “The Coronary heart Half 5,” which sees his face morph into the likes of different well-known Black males.
Within the video, Lamar begins by rapping in entrance of a maroon-colored backdrop as himself, earlier than his face later morphs into that of O.J. Simpson’s after which Kanye West’s.
Because the “All of the Stars” rapper continues within the monitor, his face once more transforms into different stars who’ve not too long ago made headlines, akin to Jussie Smollett and Will Smith.
Lamar additionally takes on the appearances of the late Kobe Bryant and Nipsey Hussle in direction of the top of the video, the place Lamar seemingly raps from Hussle’s perspective throughout a number of traces which might be featured within the track.
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The shock drop arrived forward of the discharge of Lamar’s fifth studio album, Mr. Morale & The Massive Steppers, which is scheduled to drop Friday.
The rapper beforehand revealed that his long-awaited album can be launched final month via a doc posted to his cryptic “oklama” web site, which is seemingly titled as a play on his title.
“The next assertion was launched at this time by oklama, via his firm pgLang at 11:00 a.m. PT in Los Angeles, CA,” reads the doc, addressed from “The Language Enterprises,” earlier than revealing the album title and launch date. “All factual data for this launch will come immediately from this supply solely.”
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“Respect your endurance,” reads the underside of the PDF, posted to the identical web site as an August 2021 observe from Lamar in regards to the forthcoming, then-untitled report — which can mark his final with longtime report label High Dawg Leisure following the 2020 launch of his personal report firm pgLang, co-founded with supervisor Dave Free.
“As I produce my closing TDE album, I really feel pleasure to have been part of such a cultural imprint after 17 years. The Struggles. The Success. And most significantly, the Brotherhood,” wrote the performer. “Might the Most Excessive proceed to make use of High Dawg as a vessel for candid creators. As I proceed to pursue my life’s calling.”
“There’s magnificence in completion. And all the time religion within the unknown,” continued his letter to followers. “Thanks for preserving me in your ideas. I’ve prayed for you all. See you quickly sufficient.”
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Mr. Morale & The Massive Steppers is Lamar’s first full-length studio album since 2017’s DAMN, which earned the rapper a Pulitzer Prize for Music in addition to 5 Grammy Awards and his first chart-topping solo single, the seven-time platinum-certified “Humble.”
Lamar’s different LPs embody 2011’s Part.80, 2012’s Good Child, M.A.A.D Metropolis and To Pimp a Butterfly from 2015.
