The album cover was designed by Vlad Sepetov, who created the album covers for Lamar's last two projects – To Pimp a Butterfly and Untitled Unmastered. Recorded at No Excuses - Santa Monica, CA, except tracks C1 and D3 recorded at Windmark Studios and track C3 recorded at Jungle City Studios. The studio album also incorporates some new album artwork, showcasing the To Pimp a Butterfly entertainer sporting the signature white t-shirt, which reads "DAMN" on it, with the same braided hairstyle from the original cover, but this time Kendrick appears with his mouth open and head up. NAACP Image Awards: Jordan Peele, Tiffany Haddish, Idris Elba Among Winners In Non-Televised Categories". It’s his first extended release since last year’s demos collection Untitled Unmastered, and his first formal record since 2015’s To Pimp A Butterfly.

Released on April 14, 2017, through Top Dawg Entertainment, Aftermath Entertainment and Interscope Records, critical accolades followed including a Pulitzer Prize for Music and the Best Rap Album at the 2018 Grammy Awards. The album has been categorized as conscious hip hop, a genre Lamar incorporated on his previous studio album, To Pimp a Butterfly. There’s the sense his ambitions on Damn are even larger, reaching toward something more universal, fateful even spiritual in its reach to find the link tying all contradictions together.

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Love" featuring Zacari, was released as the album's third single on October 2, 2017, to rhythmic contemporary radio. strips down the rhythms to their essence, flavored with the occasional cameo (notably Rihanna and U2). The album still contains guest features from the likes of Rihanna, Zacari and U2, as well as his hit single "Humble. In the edit page, go to the 'Metadata' tab and add your Juno artist, label or release page for listeners to purchase your release / releases.In the months that followed, Lamar released three singles from the album; " Humble" was released in March 2017, " Loyalty" in June 2017, and " Love" in October 2017, the first of which became Lamar's first number-one single on the US Billboard Hot 100 as a lead artist. Whether Damn will have the same epochal impact as To Pimp a Butterfly remains to be seen, but either way it sounds like the work of a supremely confident artist at the top of his game. Blood" and "DNA" contain elements of Fox News commentators Eric Bolling, Kimberly Guilfoyle and Geraldo Rivera criticizing Lamar's 2015 BET Awards performance.