KENDRICK LAMAR. After the release of Kendrick Lamar’s new album, “Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers”, the rapper announces a new tour that will pass through Paris in October 2022.
[Mis à jour le 13 mai 2022 à 18h10] Five years that his admirers have been waiting for: Kendrick Lamar is back with a fifth album, called Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers and released this Friday, May 13. A record announced just a few weeks ago by the Californian rapper, who announced the good news to his admirers last April, simply by replying to a tweet and indicating the release date of his new project.
This is his first album since the release of Damn in 2017, which had met with immense success and had even earned its creator the Pulitzer literary and journalistic prize (a first for a hip hop artist). Evidence of the expectation around the release of the album Mr. Morale & the Big SteppersSpotify and Apple Music, overwhelmed with listening, experienced many bugs this night, as evidenced by several Internet users on social networks.
Wednesday, May 11, on Twitter, Kendrick Lamar unveiled the cover of his new album, Mr Morales & The Big Steppers, composed of 18 tracks, including featurings with Baby Keem, Ghostface Killah, Kodak Black… And on the cover of the disc, we discover the 34-year-old artist wearing a crown of thorns, khaki pants, a pistol the belt and a child in the arms. In front of him, a woman on a bed, breastfeeding a baby. The American media TMZ is believed to be his longtime partner, Whitney Alford, and the child the rapper is holding is believed to be their two-year-old daughter. As for the baby, it could be that the couple hid (and revealed on this cover) the birth of a new child. Something to arouse the curiosity of fans around this long-awaited new album.
Ahead of the long-awaited release of the successor to DamnKendrick Lamar unveiled, on May 9, the song The Heart Part 5 and especially its clip, viewed more than 10 million times in less than 24 hours on YouTube. A piece full of messages, which takes a sample of the song I Want You by Marvin Gaye and which evokes various social issues such as racism, illness or poverty.
In the clip of The Heart Part 5Kendrick Lamar used the technique of morphing, or deepfake and transformed his face into OJ Simpson, American football player tried and acquitted for a double murder, controversial rapper Kanye West, basketball star tragically dead Kobe Briant, Will Smith, actor adored then controversial since the Oscars, or Nipsey Hussle, American rapper who was assassinated in March 2019. Kendrick Lamar uses each of these figures to denounce violence and the fact of trivializing it, but also wonders about his responsibility as a than a rapper in society.
And as good news never comes alone, Kendrick Lamar announces a new tour, The Big Steppers Tour. The rapper will be passing through Paris, for a unique concert, on October 21, 2022 at the Accor Arena! Tickets go on sale Friday, May 20, at 10 a.m.