Kendrick named his album after one of the hardest cars of all time , the 1987 Buick GNX ,The Grand National GNX also beat the Ferrari in the quarter-mile run by 0.3 seconds. The only car that was able to challenge the GNX at the time was the Lamborghini Countach. 🔥 https://t.co/B3a4BCnr8e

Kendrick Lamar’s surprise album GNX was thrown out of his mind and onto our streaming platforms without warning, and the west coast beats have been blaring through our speakers ever since. But it’s not just rap fans who have been bopping and screaming ‘MUSTAAARD’ since Friday: the Golden State Warriors fans have also been cheering along.

It’s appropriate that Kendrick Lamar named his new album after the 1987 Buick Grand National Experimental. Produced in limited quantities, it was never as ubiquitous as its predecessor, the Buick Regal,

Kendrick Lamar’s big year isn’t over yet. The rapper just dropped his sixth album, GNX, with no warning. The project comes after a monthslong beef with Drake, being named as the Super Bowl 59 halftime performer,

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The Los Angeles rapper’s sixth studio album, GNX, popped up on streaming services out of nowhere on Friday afternoon. Lamar has yet to reveal why he named the record what he did—and is unlikely to—but considering that its cover features him leaning against a 1987 Buick GNX, it’s hard to imagine the two aren’t related.

With his surprise-dropped “GNX,” Kendrick Lamar roars from zero to 60 faster than a turbocharged ’87 Buick, faster than you can shout “Mustaaaaard.” And waaaaay faster than you can decode the dense biblical centerpiece “Reincarnated.”