{"id":331525,"date":"2025-12-05T06:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T06:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/331525\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T06:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T06:34:07","slug":"sounwave-reveals-kendrick-lamar-started-gnx-right-after-mr-morale-and-recorded-up-to-100-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/331525\/","title":{"rendered":"Sounwave Reveals Kendrick Lamar Started \u2018GNX\u2019 Right After \u2018Mr. Morale\u2019 And Recorded Up To 100 Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Kendrick Lamar<\/a> didn\u2019t take a breath between eras. According to longtime collaborator Sounwave<\/a>, the moment Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers wrapped, Kendrick was already shifting gears into what would become GNX. In a new interview with Variety<\/a>, Sounwave laid out the surprisingly fast and incredibly intense timeline behind one of the year\u2019s most dissected albums.<\/p>\n

He explained that Kendrick started sketching ideas for GNX almost immediately, entering what he called a \u201cthrowing paint on the wall\u201d phase. Over the months that followed, that experimentation exploded into an archive of \u201c80 to 100 songs,\u201d giving Kendrick a massive catalog to carve the album from.<\/p>\n

“The beginning of it was throwing paint on the wall,\u201d Sounwave told Variety. “And it started to form this massive funky West groove that we love because [Kendrick and I are] from Compton.”<\/p>\n

That sonic identity became strong enough that Sounwave knew exactly who to bring in next. Mustard came aboard to deepen the L.A. feel, while Jack Antonoff joined later in the process to refine the evolving sound. \u201cI realized the people who we should bring in to push it even further,\u201d Sounwave said. \u201cI was fortunate to have friends who are very talented.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kendrick Lamar’s Creative Process<\/p>\n

But the most chaotic part of the timeline came at the finish line. According to Sounwave, Antonoff was still working on the final mixes until four in the morning, just hours before GNX hit streaming platforms. Furthermore, the album was essentially being locked in real time as fans waited for it to drop.<\/p>\n

This timeline paints a clearer picture of Kendrick\u2019s process. Moreover, it involved nonstop creation, obsessive world-building, and razor-sharp editing down to the wire. Starting a new album the second the last one ends. Building a hundred songs just to choose a handful. Fine-tuning mixes in the middle of the night to meet the release window.<\/p>\n

For Kendrick, the GNX era wasn\u2019t a neatly packaged rollout. It was a relentless marathon. And somehow, the chaos made the final result feel even more intentional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kendrick Lamar didn\u2019t take a breath between eras. According to longtime collaborator Sounwave, the moment Mr. Morale and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,167936,2775,216,3,167937],"class_list":{"0":"post-331525","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-gnx","10":"tag-kendrick-lamar","11":"tag-music","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-sounwave"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}