Kendrick Lamar released his fourth studio album ‘DAMN.‘ on Good Friday (April 14) to critical acclaim and outpourings of adoration from fans. With his performance of it, he almost stole the limelight from everyone else performing at Coachella over Easter Weekend – and yet weirdly, for some of his fans, the awesome album ‘DAMN.’ has been upstaged by another, purely hypothetical Kendrick album called ‘NATION.’. Along with the release of ‘DAMN.’ came speculation that Kendrick was going to do a Frank Ocean and put out two albums within days of one another. When no second album appeared, they kicked off all over Twitter (and one guy filmed himself drinking a vinyl record).
Some were just plain angry, as though they deserved something:
i thought physicals was the name of the new album pic.twitter.com/LLPl9mSDvL
— meisya and 666 others (@meisyacv) April 18, 2017
Others were simply sad:
Me realizing that there's no NATION album?… Kendrick is still the goat tho #kendricklamar #kdot #damn #nation pic.twitter.com/jnuRNIPz7q
— Johnny Paolucci (@JohnnyPaolucci) April 17, 2017
There were obviously those who sensed the opportunity for a good spot of meme-age:
https://twitter.com/Cam_highroller/status/853651223110705152
While there are even some people who are still tapping their watches expectantly:
When it's Monday and Kendrick Lamar didn't drop another album pic.twitter.com/Qz08ppEaSu
— jourdain (@jourdaindong) April 17, 2017
People looking for NATION. like. pic.twitter.com/pu8CZe3fqK
— ????? (@NolanDracula) April 16, 2017
*refreshes feed to check for new Kendrick* #NATION #Kdot pic.twitter.com/hM9DQb40Of
— Jaydon Farao (@The_1Wanderer) April 16, 2017
There are plenty of people who have realised their mistakes and are feeling a bit weird about the strange way they were behaving. Forgive these people:
In hindsight, this is how I bet all of us Kendrick Lamar fans were acting this weekend thinking that a #Nation album was going to be dropped pic.twitter.com/Avi1ezLOeT
— Michael Dixon (@thegoofmeister_) April 17, 2017
Me after a whole weekend of hyping myself up for #Nation…. #Damn @kendricklamar pic.twitter.com/juz7A99H5c
— Arthur Edits (@chrishonearth) April 17, 2017
Kendrick Lamar when asked about the #NATION album pic.twitter.com/GsaCmaHa3F
— Luciano (@King_Blancoo) April 16, 2017
And if you’re confused by the idea of a fan-base attempting to will an album into existence without any help from the artist, here’s exactly how the whole ‘NATION’ thing happened:
https://twitter.com/Cryptive/status/853748042973032450
