If you’ve been able to lend an ear to
Kendrick Lamar’s newly-released fifth album
Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers, you were probably a bit
taken aback by the album’s content. With that, it leaves us to wonder what visuals for songs on the album would look like once they’re released. Well, just a day after the album’s arrival, Kendrick has released the first video from
Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers, that being for “N95.”
The visual is a cinematic affair, one that begins with Kendrick in an all-white garment as he floats above the ocean water. Throughout the video, he works out on a rooftop, plays the piano, dances and does donuts in a car with Baby Keem, watches a car crash into a row of chairs beside him, and much more.
This iconic photo of Kendrick Lamar was for N95 all along…
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May 14, 2022
Thanks to the video for “N95,” we now have an idea of when the song was completed, and even when Kendrick got going on
Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers. Towards the end of 2020, Kendrick was
photographed shooting what many believed was a music video at the time. He was seen rocking tan shorts and a fresh pair of Chucks while sitting on a plastic crate. That same outfit and scene can be found in the visual for “N95” at the 2:32 mark. This is worth noting as Kendrick admits to struggling with writer’s block for two years on “
Worldwide Steppers.”
The visual for “N95” arrives after Apple Music announced that
Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers earned the
most first-day streams for an album released in 2022 on the platform.
You can watch the video for “N95” above.
Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers is out now via PgLang/TDE/Aftermath/Interscope. You can stream it
here.
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