Four records deep and Kendrick Lamar is completely, 100% on top of his game and 2017, was the year of Kendrick Lamar. Aside from Kendrick Lamar, the year belonged to Lorde (even making news headlines on Boxing Day) but there can only be one album of 2017 and this year it's DAMN.
Following the lyrical and production brilliance of 2015's To Pimp a Butterfly (in 2016 we got an untitled unmastered) we got HUMBLE late March 2017. What was to follow on April, 14th, 2017 was the multi award nominated fourth full length release from Kendrick DAMN.
The fourteen track masterpiece featured significant guests, huge singles and killer production. Lyrically Kendrick is the king, he also teased fans with The Heart Part Four which didn't make the record, and that track was dope, so if that was an off cut this albums standards were sky high.
Kendrick's DAMN. world tour is currently getting set to jet across to Europe after a successful North American run.
With HUMBLE, LOYALTY and LOVE killing it on the charts, the album has topped many end of year album lists including Billboard, The A.V. Club, Complex, The Irish Times, NPR, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Spin and a load more.
Kendrick's 2017 will be hard to match, however the talent this guy has is second to none. Move over Kanye, you have been replaced mate, Kendrick is the new supreme master of all things Urban and Hip Hop.
Well done, DAMN. is Flashing off the Record's Album of 2017. New Years Day my Anything but an Album of 2017 will be revealed, either Drake's playlist or L D R U's mixtape, so come on back then..
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