Kendrick Lamar’s recently released track “I,” has ramped up anticipation for the Compton hip-hop star’s forthcoming album. The project is the follow-up to his critically-acclaimed 2012 major label debut, good kid, m.A.A.d city, and Lamar spoke to Carson Daly on “AMP Radio” about the project’s expected release date.
“I’m hoping to push it out before 2015,” the rapper said, without getting any more specific. “I’ma say that. I’m working hard in the studio.”
“When I go into creating an album or any type of song, I usually cut off everything from the radio because you can easily be influenced from songs that you like, songs that you may not like,” Lamar also said. “So I said, ‘I’m gonna go in the studio and I’m going to do what I feel organically without being confined to industry standards or what people assume that I should do,’ because at the end of the day, man, I’m an artist and I would hate to be stagnant.”
K-Dot was also interviewed by Jeff G. of Power 106 in Los Angeles, where he revealed that he doesn’t like to refer to songs that he’s releasing as “singles.”
“I want to retract the word ‘single,’” Lamar stated. “I want to call things that I release ‘statements’ because this music is something that the world has to hear and it’s not only for me, but it’s for the stress. It’s for our livelihoods. When I want to come back on my release, I want to make sure I do just that and continue that.”
