Review: Kendrick Lamar's latest fireball DAMN. is a true rap album filled with intense musings on mortality, race, God and beyond

There are no precedents for Kendrick Lamar. Delivering a masterpiece with To Pimp a Butterfly, by turns deeply thoughtful and musically ambitious, the question lingered: how could he follow it up? In short, he didn't. Expectations comfortably lounged and awaited another sprawling, experimental mass. Naturally, Kendrick sidestepped these entirely, and did the one thing no one anticipated: buckled down and made a damn rap album. Whatever way you look at them, Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City and Butterfly ...