Either way, Kendrick Lamar is back with a new album ... perhaps most consequentially, still annoyed by Drake, the superstar rapper he feuded with in song earlier this year. Never had a rap beef been more breathlessly hyped, but Lamar made the most of ...

Kendrick Lamar surprised fans by releasing a new album, “GNX,” Friday afternoon with no advance notice, the latest in a successful year for the rapper marked by his dramatic beef with Drake—which many say Lamar won—and his smash diss track “Not Like Us,