This week's Trending Up looks at the biggest surprise release of 2024, as well as the liftoff of the 'Wicked' soundtrack and a new dance trend-boosted TikTok hit.

Asserting his place in a broader lineage of Black music on the polarizing “Reincarnated,” Kendrick attacks Drake's bona fides one more time—without ever saying his name.

Kendrick Lamar's 'GNX' Set for No. 1 Behind 290K+ First Week | The first-week numbers for Kendrick Lamar's GNX are available for preview.

Hits Daily Double delivered first-week projections for Kendrick Lamar’s sixth studio LP, GNX. According to the publication, the surprise drop is forecasted to earn 291,000 album-equivalent units, which would safely secure a No.

After a war of words with Drake that yielded one of the biggest hits of Lamar’s career, the Los Angeles rapper is eager to shift back on his sixth album.

Kendrick Lamar starts his exhilarating new album by complaining that someone vandalized a mural depicting his face — a mural depicting his face in triplicate, in fact — on the side of a Honduran restaurant in his Compton hometown.

GNX” is easily the most disciplined and direct music Kendrick Lamar has ever made, and if you really let yourself feel it, it might also be his most profound.

It’s appropriate that Kendrick Lamar named his new album after the 1987 Buick Grand National Experimental. Produced in limited quantities, it was never as ubiquitous as its predecessor, the Buick Regal,

With his surprise-dropped “GNX,” Kendrick Lamar roars from zero to 60 faster than a turbocharged ’87 Buick, faster than you can shout “Mustaaaaard.” And waaaaay faster than you can decode the dense biblical centerpiece “Reincarnated.”