Kendrick LamarDAMN
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Where TPAB ran warm and jazzy, DAMN. is cold, spare, and trap-adjacent: hard 808s, compressed bass, minimalist synths. 'DNA.' is vicious and booming. Kendrick cut the second verse a cappella first, then told Mike Will Made-It to build the beat around the rhymes and make it sound like chaos. 'HUMBLE.' is a piano-and-bass sledgehammer. 'FEAR.' dissects dread at ages seven, seventeen, and twenty-seven across three gutting verses, maybe the most emotionally rich thing in his catalog. Won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Music. Heavy, and earned.