The rapper’s sixth studio album follows the success of a pair of tracks this year that were sparked by a war of words with Drake.

Lamar’s ability to surprise and captivate the music industry makes one thing clear: he remains a powerful force in the music industry.

Kendrick Lamar starts his exhilarating new album by complaining that someone vandalized a mural depicting his face — a mural depicting his face in triplicate, in fact — on the side of a Honduran restaurant in his Compton hometown.