DAMN. [VINYL]

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In its third week, the album continued to top the charts with 173,000 album-equivalent units of which 57,000 were traditional album sales, bringing the sales to a total of 1.

There's none of that album's wilfully jarring quality – its sudden, anxious musical lurches and abrupt, short-circuiting leaps between genres – but the tracks on Damn still feel episodic and expansive. Damn received widespread critical acclaim, with many naming the album one of the best albums of 2017 and the decade. When you're making art this substantial, vital, and virtuosic, there's no need to wrap a tidy bow around it". Over the last few months he has disarmed packed rooms of rowdy concert goers, leaving them silent as they hold fast to every syllable sung. is by far his shortest release to date – but the ideas, thoughts and feelings it contains are massive, weighty things, from sexual tension to deep, dark depression".

Released on April 14, 2017, through Top Dawg Entertainment, Aftermath Entertainment and Interscope Records, critical accolades followed including a Pulitzer Prize for Music and the Best Rap Album at the 2018 Grammy Awards. Fear" contains a sample of "Poverty's Paradise", written by Dale Warren and performed by 24-Carat Black. On May 10, 2018, the album was certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for combined sales, streaming and track-sales equivalent of three million units.

On March 23, 2017, Lamar released a promotional single, " The Heart Part 4", which contained lyrics hinting at a possible April 7 release date for his fourth studio album. In its second week, the album remained at the top of the US charts with 238,000 album-equivalent units of which 87,000 were traditional album sales, bringing the sales to a total of 841,000 units. Damn strikes a neat balance between spiritual content, personal reflection and socio-political comment. A second empty gatefold jacket autographed by Kendrick Lamar was shipped along with the sealed double LP.Anyone who has had the pleasure of seeing Jalen perform live knows that he is one of the most captivating performers on today's soul scene. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from professional publications, the album received an average score of 95, based on 39 reviews. In the months that followed, Lamar released three singles from the album; " Humble" was released in March 2017, " Loyalty" in June 2017, and " Love" in October 2017, the first of which became Lamar's first number-one single on the US Billboard Hot 100 as a lead artist. Now with a massively successful US tour opening for sweet soul darlings Thee Sacred Souls behind him, 2023 is sure to be a propitious year for Daptone's newest signee. Duckworth" contains samples of "Atari", written by Nai Palm and performed by Hiatus Kaiyote; "Be Ever Wonderful", written by Don Robey and Joe Scott, as performed by Ted Taylor; "Ostavi Trag", written by September; and "Let the Drums Speak", written by Bill Curtis and performed by the Fatback Band.

Eric Renner Brown of Entertainment Weekly said, "After delving into the personal on 2012's Good Kid, M. There’s the sense his ambitions on Damn are even larger, reaching toward something more universal, fateful even spiritual in its reach to find the link tying all contradictions together. His full length debut on Daptone Records is equal parts raw feeling and elegance and exudes confidence and charm. In the United Kingdom, Damn sold 30,000 units in its first week and entered at number two on the UK Albums Chart.

Every song is stylized in all capital letters, with a period at the end of their titles, including featured artist credits. The most gifted rapper of a generation stomps into the Nineties and continues to blaze a trail forward". The studio album also incorporates some new album artwork, showcasing the To Pimp a Butterfly entertainer sporting the signature white t-shirt, which reads "DAMN" on it, with the same braided hairstyle from the original cover, but this time Kendrick appears with his mouth open and head up. The album has been categorized as conscious hip hop, a genre Lamar incorporated on his previous studio album, To Pimp a Butterfly. During the fourth quarter of the year, Kendrick Lamar is giving away one last treat before we wrap things up.