Surprise! Kendrick Lamar has released a new album called GNX.

The twelve-track album follows his critically acclaimed album Mr. 2022’s Morale & The Big Steppers and his high-profile feud with Drake, which many hip-hop fans thought Lamar won, culminating in his hit Not Like Us.

GNX has a similarly badass sound, referencing the Drake beef and his upcoming Super Bowl halftime performance on opening track Wacced Out Murals. Songs like TV Off and Peekaboo continue the sonic aesthetic with parallel rap flows and production.

The second song, Squabble Up, was featured in the music video for Not Like Us. And it looks like the seventeen-time Grammy Award winner is already pulling off a similar trick.

A video teaser for GNX – released just before the album hit streaming services early Saturday morning – features a one-minute musical clip that does not appear on the album.

Named after a car (actually the 1987 rear-wheel drive coupe Buick), GNX is Lamar’s sixth studio album, with twelve songs in 44 minutes, featuring neo-soul hero SZA, Lamar’s former Top Dawg Entertainment labelmate, Luther and later Gloria. .

A-list pop producer Jack Antonoff (Taylor Swift, Lana Del Rey, Lorde) has credits on every song but one, alongside Lamar’s longtime producer Sounwave and Sam Dew.

Other notable co-producers include Mustard (who was behind Not Like Us), jazz virtuoso Kamasi Washington (who was on Lamar’s acclaimed 2015 album To Pimp A Butterfly), as well as Terrace Martin and Dahi.

The record contains a song called Heart Pt. 6, the latest in a long-running series of songs Lamar started in 2010, and the same title as one of the diss tracks Drake released in May.

In the song, the respected Compton rapper reflects on his career, including Black Hippy, his former rap group featuring ScHoolboy Q, Ab-Soul and Jay Rock, which briefly reunited at the Pop Out concert in Inglewood, California earlier this year brought attention.

“I refresh my memory, knowing that Black Hippy didn’t work because of me. Creatively I moved on, with new concepts at my fingertips,” he raps. “I think my motivation was the desire for independence. Now it’s about Kendrick, I want to evolve, use my skills as a black executive.”

Rumors swirled that Kendrick Lamar was working on an album amid his feud with Drake, on which Lamar released four new songs: Euphoria, 6.16 In LA, Meet The Grahams and Not Like Us.

Earlier this month, Lamar earned seven Grammy Award nominations, with Not Like Us being recognized in five major categories: Song of the Year, Best Rap Performance, Best Rap Song, Record of the Year and Best Music Video.

Lamar’s feature on Future and Metro Boomin’s Like That — the verse that reignited the Drake feud to begin with — is nominated for Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Song.