Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers’ Album Is Finally Here: Listen - DMT NEWS

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Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers’ Album Is Finally Here: Listen

The long, five-year wait is finally over: Kendrick Lamar has dropped new album, Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers. The #-song set is the follow-up to 2017’s Damn. and it marks the rapper’s final LP for his longtime label, Top Dawg Entertainment.

Spread over two disks, the rapper’s fifth studio album boasts appearances from a wide variety of collaborators — including Portishead’s Beth Gibbons, R&B singer Summer Walker, Ghostface Killah and Kodak Black. It includes first single, “The Heart Part 5.” He shared the track’s wild video earlier in the month, which features his face morphing into various digitally produced celebrity “deep fakes,” including Kanye West, Will Smith, and the late Nipsey Hussle.

In the lead-up to the album’s reveal this week, he teased the cover art shot by lauded photographer Renell Medrano. In the striking image, Lamar wears a crown of thorns while carrying a child who looks steadily into the camera. In the background, a woman sits on a bed while cradling a baby.

The anticipation for Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers has been building since last August, when Lamar first posted a note on his Oklama website that said the album he was producing would be his last release on TDE. Since then, he has provided other hints that tipped to the possibility that it might be a double album and maybe even a book, and a release featuring the letterhead of his company pgLang announcing the album’s arrival date.

Stream Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers below.

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Althea Legaspi, Khareem Sudlow