Luther
Kendrick Lamar and SZA
2025
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Release: 2024
Release: 2024Source checked
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Apple Music: luther
The original GNX track is dated November 2024 and the associated official music-video credit names Kendrick Lamar and SZA. Only year precision is claimed.
Interscope Records: Kendrick Lamar and SZA release credit
The artist's label explicitly identifies luther with SZA under GNX. Used for the collaboration credit only, not as release-date evidence or as a claim about this collection's ranking.
About Kendrick Lamar
Song-specific inspiration or recording background is not established for this entry. This sourced artist profile provides career context.
Kendrick Lamar is a rapper from Compton whose 2012 album good kid, m.A.A.d city brought his work to a broad audience. His recordings place detailed vocal storytelling within changing musical settings. To Pimp a Butterfly drew on jazz, funk, soul and spoken-word traditions as well as hip-hop, with collaborators including Terrace Martin and Thundercat contributing to its sound. His solo album identity remains distinct from jointly credited recordings and from the individual work of the musicians around him.
Artist background sources
Kendrick Lamar - Recording Academy artist biography
Compton origin and 2012 good kid, m.A.A.d city breakthrough. | Retrieved 2026-10-17
To Pimp a Butterfly - Recording Academy oral history
Firsthand artist and collaborator accounts of jazz, funk, soul, spoken word and hip-hop in the album's production; Terrace Martin and Thundercat contributions. | Retrieved 2026-10-17
Profile reviewed: 2026-10-17. Artist background does not establish a song's creative origin or release date.
Retained annual-list context
Luther by Kendrick Lamar and SZA is included in the 2025 annual collection. The cited US year-end table lists it at number 2. A documented songwriting inspiration has not been established for this record; this is chart context, not a creative-origin account.
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Billboard year-end 2025 table (Wikipedia transcription)
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Billboard year-end 2025 table (Wikipedia transcription)
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