Kendrick Lamar Announces New Album ‘Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers,’ Out in May

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Ethan Shanfeld Apart from a small number of guest appearances and live sets, Kendrick Lamar has kept quiet these last few years — but it seems the Pulitzer Prize-winning artist is returning with another album next month.According to a cryptic new press release, Lamar will release “Mr.

Morale & the Big Steppers” on May 13.https://t.co/YVE5bZOBL2 https://t.co/UywGGKExb1— Kendrick Lamar (@kendricklamar) April 18, 2022Responding to an earlier tweet from SK that says, “Kendrick Lamar is officially retired,” the rap titan responded with a link: oklama.com, which leads to a note that reads:“The following statement was released today by oklama, through his company pgLang at 11:00 a.m.

PT in Los Angeles, CA:Album: ‘Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers’ Release date: 5/13/2022All factual information for this release will come directly from this source only.” Lamar’s last full-length project was 2017’s Grammy-winning “DAMN,” which was released just two days before his headlining Coachella set, also led to his Pulitzer Prize and made him the honoree at Variety’s inaugural Hitmakers event.He followed a year later by curating and contributing several songs to the “Black Panther” soundtrack, including his duet with SZA, “All the Stars.” But since then, he’s been mostly publicly quiet, even as the Black Lives Matter protests and movement exploded across the nation and the world in 2020.Recently, he featured on two songs from his cousin Baby Keem’s latest album — “Range Brothers” and the Grammy-winning “Family Ties” — although those appearances just seemed to energize and make his fan base even more impatient.There have even been several false alarms, such as a social media tease last summer from TDE, his record label, that turned out to be a.