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Kendrick Lamar Shares Cover Art For Upcoming “Mr. Morale & Big Steppers” Album

Last month Kendrick Lamar announced that his fifth studio album, Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers, would be dropping on May 13, 2022.

Taking to social media today (May 11), to share the cover art for the upcoming new, and final album for Top Dawg Entertainment. The cover shows Lamar wearing a crown of thorns while holding a toddler in his arms, and a woman sitting on a bed in the corner with an infant.

On Sunday (May 8) the Pulitzer Prize-winning rapper dropped a new video entitled “The Heart Part 5”, where he morphs into several familiar faces while rapping. During the five-minute track, Lamar’s face morphs into O.J. Simpson, Kanye West, Jussie Smollett, Kobe Bryant, Will Smith, and Nipsey Hussle, while he raps verses from each of their perspectives.

Check out the Twitter post from Kendrick Lamar sharing his Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers album cover below:

Chad Kiser

Chad M. Kiser is a veteran writer of 15 years with interviews, bylines, and content featured in top media outlets including TMZ, ESPN, Fox News, XXL Magazine, HipHopDX, AllHipHop, The Wall Street Journal, DubCNN, Playboy Magazine, BBC4 Music, VH-1, MTV, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Billboard Magazine, and numerous others. Several of his in-depth interviews have been cited in critically acclaimed books such as "The History of Gangster Rap: From Schoolly D to Kendrick Lamar, the Rise of a Great American Art Form", "Original Gangstas: The Untold Story of Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Tupac Shakur, and the Birth of West Coast Rap", "Parental Discretion Is Advised: The Rise of N.W.A and the Dawn of Gangsta Rap", "Sounding Race In Rap Songs", "To Live and Defy in LA: How Gangsta Rap Changed America".

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