Kendrick Lamar’s Subsequent Album Is Named After His Buick Regal GNX

You do not have to be a Kendrick Lamar fan to vibe on his newest album, titled GNX. Automotive buffs will immediately acknowledge these three letters, which belong to one of many quickest (and coolest) vehicles from the Nineteen Eighties. You understand we’re speaking concerning the Buick GNX.

Lamar is speaking about it, too. Other than GNX being the title of his album, Monitor 12 additionally will get the decision. Dare we say, there is a little bit of an old-school West Coast vibe about it; however, we’ll go away with such critiques for the music executives. Our consideration falls to the black 1987 Buick GNX that graces the thumbnail of each album monitor on his YouTube channel, by no means thoughts of the teaser video.

Sure, cool vehicles and hip-hop are terrifically cliched; however, there is a bit extra taking place right here. Lamar purchased a pristine GNX—presumably the identical one featured in the video—earlier this year. In accordance with Advanced, the automotive is particular to the Grammy award-winning artist because it was the identical type of automotive his father had again within the day.

Nearly the identical, anyway. Child Lamar got here dwelling from the hospital in his dad’s 1987 Buick Regal. That was the usual model of the favored 1980s two-door luxurious coupe, with the Regal T-Sort and Grand Nationwide being efficiency variants with the notorious 3.8-liter turbocharged V-6. They had been dueling with 5.0 Mustangs and IROC Camaros of the day; however, the GNX was a really completely different beast. In comparison with 245 horsepower in the 1987 Grand National, the identical engine within the GNX was massaged to 276 horsepower. That was a conservative estimate, too, and Buick additionally upgraded numerous suspension and chassis elements.

The outcome was one of many quickest-accelerating vehicles on the planet for that period. It might attain 60 mph in under 5 seconds, a figure not far off from legends just like the Ferrari F40 and Porsche 959. Solely 547 had been constructed, and if you’d like one immediately, be able to pay effectively over $100,000.

We do not understand how much Lamar paid for his GNX. However, we love that it is nonetheless getting respect practically 40 years after being constructed.