Kendrick Lamar releases surprise new album and you can listen to it for free

Follow-up to 2015's 'To Pimp A Butterfly' out now

Kendrick Lamar has released a new album without any prior warning, with ‘Untitled Unmastered’ now available to buy and stream. Scroll below to stream via Spotify.

‘Untitled Unmastered’ is the Compton rapper’s fourth full-length release and is the follow-up to last year’s ‘To Pimp A Butterfly’, which was NME‘s second favourite album of 2015.

The record is eight songs in length, all with numbered Untitled names. Their titles also feature what seems to be the dates that they were recorded on. Check out the full tracklist, along with the album’s artwork, beneath.

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Stream via Spotify beneath. The album is also available on iTunes, Apple Music, Tidal, Spotify and Google Play.

‘Untitled 01 | 08.19.2014’
‘Untitled 02 | 06.23.2014’
‘Untitled 03 | 05.28.2013’
‘Untitled 04 | 08.14.2014’
‘Untitled 05 | 09.21.2014’
‘Untitled 06 | 06.30.2014’
‘Untitled 07 | 2014 – 2016’
‘Untitled 08 | 09.06.2014’

‘Untitled 03’ had previously been performed live on US TV’s Colbert, while ‘Untitled 08’ had been played on Fallon. Watch both performances below.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z1ZUgIZKDI

Producer Swizz Beatz has also revealed on Instagram that his and Alicia Keys’ five-year-old son helped produced “Untitled 07”. Watch him make the beat in the Instagram video beneath.

Lamar’s label Top Dawg Entertainment recently suggested that he had new music on the way, with the rapper himself as having a “chamber” of unreleased material.

“I got a chamber of material from the album that I was in love where sample clearances or something as simple as a deadline kept it off the album” Lamar explained. “But I think probably close to ten songs that I’m in love with that I’ll still play and still perform that didn’t make the cut.”

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