Kendrick Lamar might release a deluxe version of ‘GNX’ soon
nme.comKendrick Lamar is gearing up to release a deluxe version of his sixth album ‘GNX’, according to Lefty Gunplay.Last Friday (November 22), the Compton rapper surprised the world with ‘GNX’ – his follow-up to the Grammy-winning ‘Mr Morales & The Big Steppers’ and his first release under his new label, pgLang.The record features his former Top Dawg Entertainment labelmate SZA as well as production from Jack Antonoff, Kamasi Washington, Mustard, Terrace Martin and Sounwave.Gunplay also appeared on the viral track ‘TV Off’ from the album and, in a recent interview with Bootleg Kev, he said he’s sure Lamar has “some stuff in the chamber”, adding: “I know he’s got a deluxe version coming out.
He’s very secretive.”He also revealed the “secretive” process behind his collaboration with the ‘Not Like Us’ star, for which he had to sign non-disclosure agreements before stepping into the studio and making “two, three songs” with Lamar.Gunplay explained: “Everybody thought I was playing – I wasn’t.
I almost blew it ’cause we signed NDAs and I couldn’t wait to tell everybody.”He continued: “We had to sign NDAs and they were like, ‘You’re going [in the studio] with Kendrick’, and it didn’t hit me ’til he walked in there and gave me a hug.
He’s been locked in with me since April and he said that I’m the missing piece that the West Coast needed […] He told me that we’re going to work again, for sure.”‘GNX’ is already expected to debut at Number One on the Billboard 200 with 291,000 equivalent album units in its first week – marking it Lamar’s fifth consecutive chart-topping album.
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