Moments on Kendrick Lamar’s ‘DAMN.’ That Made Us Go “Damn!”

 

Despite the seven extra days, whether or not I have my sh*t together, is still up in the air but what’s certain is the release of Kendrick’s new LP DAMN. It is expected to move a solid 450k copies in the first week.

Here at HHNM we usually like to give new releases ample time to process before writing in depth reviews for them and we’ll do that for ‘DAMN’ as well, but in honor of the title we, figured we’d try something a little different. This is not a true “first impressions” summary as we’ve given the record around 8 or 9 full spins by now, but it’s still a premature review compared to what we would normally do for a detailed album review.

Here are the moments on Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN. that made us go

“Damn!”

Scott Evans


– Joe Coad


There you have it: Our knee jerk reactions to Kendrick Lamar’s new LP. As we mentioned earlier, we’ll be back with more formal analysis in the future, but for now we just wanted to react simply as fans. Albums of this magnitude are an event and in the streaming age where albums don’t leak like they used to, it’s almost a big listening party when albums finally do come out everywhere at once.

Based on what we’ve heard so far, Kendrick has crafted an album that is a combination of all of his past work but with new sounds, perspective and flows. The album is more Section.80 than it is TPAB but there’s also some GKMC sprinkled as well. This feels like the tightest, most compact Kendrick effort to date upon early evaluation, but time will tell if that rings true in the future. What this album proves is that there is room for so many artists with different styles to flourish in today’s music climate and Kendrick brings his own to the table and listeners couldn’t thank him enough.

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