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Kendrick Lamar Claims Salvation for Satan on ‘GNX’

By Mitchell Atencio
Kendrick Lamar live at Rolling Loud Germany, Messe Riem Munich on Aug. 7, 2023. IMAGO/Stefan M. Prager via Reuters. 
Nov 27, 2024
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Since his critically acclaimed album, To Pimp a Butterfly, Kendrick Lamar has been wrestling with the devil. But on GNX, his surprise album released last Friday, Lamar stops wrestling and writes a reconciliation between Satan and God.

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Kendrick Lamar live at Rolling Loud Germany, Messe Riem Munich on Aug. 7, 2023. IMAGO/Stefan M. Prager via Reuters.