On Friday, Lamar popped out and showed up with a surprise album, “GNX,” a 12-track offering that follows a string of scathing disses, No. 1 singles and an epic rap battle with Drake that ended with (multiple) victories for the Compton rapper this year.

After a war of words with Drake that yielded one of the biggest hits of Lamar’s career, the Los Angeles rapper is eager to shift back on his sixth album.

GNX” is easily the most disciplined and direct music Kendrick Lamar has ever made, and if you really let yourself feel it, it might also be his most profound.