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    Kendrick Lamar, Father John Misty’s strange album release date overlaps

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    If a Father John Misty album comes out, you can definitely expect Kendrick Lamar to drop as well. Friday, a few hours after Lamar was surprisingly released GNXJosh Tillman joked about the fact that the pair of musicians have released music within weeks (sometimes days) of each other five times before.

    “Not while I’m furiously scribbling my apparent response,” Father John Misty wrote on X Friday, joking about the unexpected overlap between Lamar’s GNX and his own Mahashmashana.

    In his replies, one follower wrote, “I’m so sorry you just happened to drop by on the worst possible day to release a new album.” Tillman then joked, “It’s okay, but the other times it happened were 2012, 2015, 2017 and 2022.”

    And he’s right! Well, sort of. This year marks the first time that Lamar and Father John Misty’s albums will be released on the exact same day. For GNX–Mahashmashanathe closest they came was one week, in 2017, when Misty came out Pure comedy on April 7, and Lamar fell Damn on April 14. (His label, Sub Pop Records, even posted an edit of Tillman’s album with the Damn font on Friday.)

    In 2022, Misty came out with Chloe and the next 20th century on April 8 and Lamar was released Mr. Morale and the big steps about a month later, on May 13. Misty was released in 2015 I love you, Honeybear on February 9, and Lamar followed on March 15 with To pimp a butterfly. And in 2012 they weren’t super close, but they did fall that same year: Tillman released his first LP under the name Father John Misty, Fear funin April 2012, earlier Good boy, MAAD city appeared in October of that year.

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    Although Tillman didn’t mention it, the musicians also released the same song in 2018. FJM dropped God’s favorite customer the same year as Lamar’s Black Panther album, on which Lamar curated and performed.

    It was clear that Tillman was just joking about the fact that there was any kind of competition. He later clarified, “Hmm, how do I tell them my albums aren’t in the charts.”

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