UPDATE: Top Dawg Entertainment CEO Anthony Tiffith confirmed on Instagram that Kendrick Lamar’s project will be released Thursday night. “Thank @kingjames [LeBron James] for this,” he writes. James tweeted Feb. 23 he wanted to hear “those untitled tracks asap!!!”
EARLIER: New Kendrick Lamar music might be coming sooner than you think.
After Anthony Tiffith — the CEO of Lamar’s label Top Dawg Entertainment — promised to release a new project this week, a Lamar album titled untitled unmastered has popped up on Spotify.
The record has a 2016 release date and is currently unplayable. The eight tracks span 34 minutes and have names featuring the world “untitled” along with a date (“untitled 01 08.19.2014”).
Lamar claimed last month he had a “chamber” of unreleased material that didn’t make his second record, To Pimp a Butterfly: “I think probably close to 10 songs that I’m in love with that I’ll still play and still perform that didn’t make the cut,” he explained.
The Grammy-winning rapper has performed a slew of songs on late night shows that have been untitled and unreleased, including on The Colbert Report and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Tiffith responded to a fan on Twitter who asked for untitled tracks to be released by saying he’d think about releasing them.
See the full track list of untitled, unmastered below.
1. “untitled 01 08.19.2014.”
2. “untitled 02 06.23.2014.”
3. “untitled 03 05.28.2013.”
4. “untitled 04 08.14.2014.”
5. “untitled 05 09.21.2014.”
6. “untitled 06 06.30.2014.”
7. “untitled 07 2014-2016”
8. “untitled 08 09.06.2014.”
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