Kendrick Lamar’s ‘GNX’ Is a Meticulous, Versatile, Hard-Hitting Masterpiece: Album Review

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Midway through his snarling Drake diss, “Not Like Us,” Kendrick Lamar issued a succinct, but forceful personal mission: “Sometimes you gotta pop out and show n—as.” It was both a plan of action and a self-fulfilling mandate.  Since then, he’s won that rap beef in the most unequivocal terms imaginable: “Not Like Us” has been […]