--- description: "The Blacker The Berry" arrives one day after his Grammy win title: Kendrick Lamar Just Dropped a New Song image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Kendrick Lamar Just Dropped a New Song  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 9, 2015 11:14 PM CUT  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 9, 2015 11:14 PM CUT One day after winning the Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance, Kendrick Lamar — who famously lost to Macklemore in last year’s Best Rap Album category — dropped a new song. Like [“i”](http://time.com/3421796/kendrick-lamar-new-song-i/ "undefined") before it, the Boi-1da-produced “The Blacker the Berry” is expected to appear on Lamar’s highly anticipated follow-up to 2012’s _good kid, m.A.A.d. city_. But unlike “i,” this aggressive track is much darker in its production and lyrical content, with Lamar grappling with race and violence in America. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3702221/kendrick-lamar-new-song-the-blacker-the-berry/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3702221/kendrick-lamar-new-song-the-blacker-the-berry/"},"headline":"Kendrick Lamar Just Dropped a New Song","datePublished":"2015-02-09T23:14:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T04:17:02.251Z","description":"\"The Blacker The Berry\" arrives one day after his Grammy win","url":"https://time.com/3702221/kendrick-lamar-new-song-the-blacker-the-berry/","keywords":["Music","grammys","Kendrick Lamar","Macklemore"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3702221/kendrick-lamar-new-song-the-blacker-the-berry/","name":"Kendrick Lamar Just Dropped a New Song"}}]}] ```