Shortly before midnight on Thursday, Kendrick Lamar released his fourth album DAMN.
The 12 track set is the acclaimed Compton, California rapper’s first since last year’s leftover collection Untitled. Unmastered. and the proper follow-up to 2015’s To Pimp A Butterfly.
The title proved to be prophetic as fans on Twitter seemed unable to find enough words of praise for the Grammy-winning artist.
Lamar tweeted a link to the new album on iTunes and followed that up a few hours later with the Spotify link.
The album features collaborations with U2, Zacari and Rihanna.
But it was the lyrics that got fans the most amped and they found clever ways to address the rapper’s having apparently taken subtle shots at other rappers like Drake, J. Cole and Big Sean in his lyrics.