r/KendrickLamar • u/Hungry_Inspector160 • 1d ago
Discussion GNX has now surpassed 1 billion streams on Spotify. His fastest album to achieve this.
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u/StormySands 1d ago
This makes sense to me for two reasons:
Kendrick is hotter than he’s even been because of the beef.
This is the most banger-filled album he’s ever released.
This project was exactly what Kendrick needed to release right now. Another strategic W from Kendrick.
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u/ShiningRedDwarf 1d ago
My thoughts exactly. The beef catapulted him to the top. If he could put out a banger album that would cement that status. And he did.
And it was absolutely strategic - he knew that he had to capitalize on the success of the beef
“Fuck being rational. Give’em what they ask for”
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u/bryanthebryan 1d ago
I could write a paper on this and it would be good. I feel like we’ll be talking about this moment for decades.
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u/QuintanimousGooch 1d ago
Its explicitly reminiscent of Damn (following TPAB) in him making a decision to make the project significantly more approachable, and for moving the revolutionary themes to a less overt layer people would call him overidealistic for and dismiss him over, to a place more rooted in pessimism and a grounded perspective to build.
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u/badbrotha 1d ago
SOUND LIKE A BROKEN RECORD EVERYTIME I BREAk A RE-ah wrong sub, congrats to the GOAT
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u/Alucard_117 1d ago
How many days, been around 7 weeks right?
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u/CobbyAlan 1d ago
Nov. 22
Exactly 5 weeks today
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u/Alucard_117 1d ago
Damn I'm fucked up 😂😂 No more late night drinking
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u/CobbyAlan 1d ago
Nah it’s all good, do ya thang, feels like I’ve known this album my whole life by now 😂
Only reason I know that off rip is because it dropped the same day I was celebrating the anniversary of my prior favorite album, funny how that shit works
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u/Lazy-Economics-4065 1d ago
Nah it’s all good, do ya thang
Yeah man keep drinking. Fill the swimming pool up. Matter of fact, let me find you a pair of car keys rn
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u/jiggywolf 1d ago
Nigga drop the album name
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u/CobbyAlan 1d ago
Beatles white album lol
Reckon it wasn’t so much my “favorite album” as much as my intro album to my favorite band, and longest running for fav from them
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u/jiggywolf 22h ago
Nice. One day ima have to listen to classic bands and movies I missed out on
Oh and thanks!
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u/CobbyAlan 20h ago
No problem, and no time like the present
I usually just find my favorite artists favorite artist, and move from there, GNX is actually an incredible starting point for diving deeper in to Lamar’s inspirations
Same for movie directors, just no idea where to start from here
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u/DefinitelyAHumanoid 1d ago
Hey but if you’re fucked up and I’m fucked up then we gonna be alright!
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u/killakev282 1d ago
Doing this with only 12 songs is incredible
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u/Confident-Ad6419 1d ago
Just imagine if he added the 3 diss tracks. It will be 2.5 billion
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u/xsavexmexjebus 1d ago
4*
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u/willcomplainfirst you lookin' like an easy come-up 1d ago
doing this on an album with only 12 tracks is insane. then again, its slapper after slapper 🔥🔥
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u/its-a-real-name 1d ago edited 1d ago
What is the source for this?
It literally has not passed 1 billion yet.
As of yesterday it was at 987m streams, with 13m on the most recent day. There is no guarantee it hit another 13m yesterday.
Wait to post “facts” until they are official. Put “projected” or something. It will hit it later today most likely but you posted this way too early. We can all make guesses guised as facts for a few internet points.
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u/Blk_Cat_15 1d ago
Must be the bots /s
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u/jiggywolf 1d ago
Like to think we smart and mature enough to know that was sarcasm lol
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u/Blk_Cat_15 1d ago
If this battle taught me anything, is that there are people that aren’t too bright. Lol
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u/angband1 1d ago
It’s like crack I can’t turn it off and it only gets better the more I listen to it!
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u/Flat-Archer-1878 1d ago
goddamn the year hasn't ended... AND it's MORE THEN DAMN??? WHAT IS HAPPENING!1!1!1!!11!
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u/jiggywolf 1d ago
It’s all happening
- the company man
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u/jimburgah 1d ago
Dude his shit with Culture United is my favorite thing on YouTube! He had OpenMikeEagle on the panel last night! (With one of the wildest takes from a lyrical rapper I’ve heard in a long time 😅)
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u/StSphinx 🥦Lookin’ for the broccoli 🥦 1d ago
I stream it all day at work so that makes sense none of the lyrics have left my head
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u/Gwanthereson how much a dollar really cost? 1d ago
No shot it’s gonna be bigger than tpab before 2026
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u/DankeyBongBluntry 1d ago
Wait wait wait, that can't be right... the drizzy gobblers all told me it was a monumental flop because it was only projected to sell 260,000 copies in the first week!
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u/Disastrous-Stick-612 1d ago
Damn, it really is a massive flop that no one actually listens to, the Drake fans were right 😢
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u/Environmental-Bag326 'that Twat' 'She's Not' 1d ago
Is that a record?
Pun intended
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u/its-a-real-name 1d ago
Once it does so it should be the 5th fastest ever rap album to do so by a couple days. And the one with the fewest tracks on that list to do it (it’s total individual tracks from the album streamed).
It should hit a billion later today and get the 5th best. This post went early.
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u/jimburgah 1d ago
So Luther has 200 mill on Spotify. I’m sure this metric is across all platforms, but where is this info coming from? I would assume the numbers are similar for Apple Music and YouTube, but like that’s still only like 6-700mill right? Am I crazy?
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u/legit-posts_1 1d ago
It should probably be mentioned somewhere that the streaming era didn't kick into high gear until about 2017 or 2018, and not counting the Black Panther Soundtrack Kendrick has only released 3 albums in this era. One of those albums was a challenging trauma bomb with songs about generational assaul aftershock, domestic strife, and transphobia. Naturally, not the most streamed album even if I love it. Beating DAMN is nothing to sneeze at admittably, but other than that it's not like there's THAT much competition.
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u/ghostbulletin 1d ago
I’m not thanking the Drizzler for touching kids
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u/Elegant_Tumbleweed_6 1d ago
Him kissing a 17 year old and texting a teen about boyfriend trouble isn't evidence?
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u/keeping_up_with_her Top of the mornin' 1d ago
For having the audacity to believe he could rap against Kendrick? Sure!
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u/Organic-Top-2501 DELUSIONAL 1d ago
Nigga can. Family Matters is the superior record. You’d know that if you wasn’t busy choking on Kenny’s cocc
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u/keeping_up_with_her Top of the mornin' 1d ago
Why are you using the n-word as a white person?
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u/Organic-Top-2501 DELUSIONAL 1d ago
I’m a nigga from the Westside of Compton. The fucc are you talking about? I’m literally standing on the corner of 79th and dink smoking a blunt LMAO. THE FUCC YOU GET THAT FROM?
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u/keeping_up_with_her Top of the mornin' 1d ago
your post history suggests otherwise
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u/Organic-Top-2501 DELUSIONAL 1d ago
Cause I play a game on my phone instead of meat riding Kenny? I don’t give a fucc about these rap niggas. We don’t fucc with rus round here. Ain’t no need to speak on hoes.
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u/keeping_up_with_her Top of the mornin' 1d ago
Ok, white boy. And who said anything about "meat riding"? Are you projecting?
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u/xsavexmexjebus 1d ago
No you aren’t.
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u/Organic-Top-2501 DELUSIONAL 1d ago
I absolutely am. Bicoastal here and the 757 of VA. Get you some money and you might find out what it feels like. I was out the set when you niggas was doing dances at teen parties LMAO
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u/Toiletpapercorndog 1d ago
You must be a lonely man
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u/Organic-Top-2501 DELUSIONAL 1d ago
What the fucc does that even mean? LMAO. The fucc you worried about if I got companionship or not? You wanna get down or something? The homies will put you in the game at the crash position if you need something to do🤷🏾♂️
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u/its-a-real-name 1d ago
Even if you wanted to be weird and somehow thank him for the initial buzz (as if Kendrick never sold a record)…. People hung around and stuck with the quality music to get it to a billion so quickly.
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u/SirensbyZel you ain't try 1d ago
It's not enough