Details of 'Mr Morale & The Big
Steppers', Kendrick Lamar's next album, was
announced on 18th April. The rapper, who will headline alongside
Paul McCartney and Billie Eilish at Glastonbury this summer, tweeted a new link
to his Oklahoma website, where he disclosed the album's new title and release
date. On 13th May, the new album will be released.

The record will follow Lamar's Pulitzer-winning 2017 album, 'DAMN,' which acquired four stars by NME and was described as "a powerful, potent look inside the troubled mind of a genius". He's also curated the Black Panther soundtrack since then.

Image Courtesy: Complex

PGLang, the company that Lamar and his
business partner Dave Free launched in 2020, also revealed the follow-up to
'DAMN.' On Instagram, Lamar posted a photo of this.

On Twitter, Lamar announced the news by linking to information about the new album and quote tweeting someone who said he was "officially retired."

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/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=569f9dcb-38a8-4949-87b1-037fb88880a2</div></p></p></figure><p>Lamar had previously teased the album last<br />year. “May the Most High continue to use Top Dawg as a vessel for candid<br />creators. As I continue to pursue my life’s calling,” he wrote last August.<br />“There’s beauty in completion. And always faith in the unknown.” He signed this<br />note ‘Oklahoma’.</p></p></p><p>Lamar registered a slew of new songs with<br />ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers) last September,<br />stoking rumours that a new album was on the way.</p></p></p><p>Songs listed with the not-for-profit<br />performance-rights organisation include ‘Before The Hangman’s Noose’,<br />‘Comfortable’, ‘Director’, ‘Fighter Thief In The Night’, ‘Fade To Black’,<br />‘Erika Kane’, ‘End Of The Line’, ‘Of Paupers And Poets’, ‘Believe’, ‘Driving<br />Down The Darkness’, ‘End Of The Line’ and ‘Fell For You’.</p></p></p><p>The new album's track list is yet to be<br />revealed. Meanwhile, following his performance at this year's Super Bowl<br />Halftime Show, Kendrick has announced details of a new summer headline show in<br />Milan, Italy.</p></p></p><p>--Silviya.Y</p>