Kendrick Lamar Has Almost 100 Unreleased Songs He Recorded for ‘GNX’, According to Producers

The hardest truth to accept as a music listener is that there are likely hundreds of songs that we’ll never hear. Whether they’re all good or not is a separate matter. But artists will sketch out raw demos to full, complete songs that will rest eternally in a hard drive somewhere. The best-case scenario is nabbing a few loose records as one-offs or as extensions on a deluxe. This is especially true for an artist like Kendrick Lamar, who will spend years workshopping an album. But that doesn’t mean he doesn’t have an abundance of ideas stashed away.

Apparently, this is the case for his last album, GNX, in 2024. Recently, Variety spoke to Mustard, Sounwave, and Jack Antonoff as the publication’s Producers of the Year. There, they share that Kendrick Lamar recorded anywhere from 80 to 100 so