Rolling Stone - 4.5 stars out of 5 -- "The rhymes on songs like 'DNA,' 'Element,' 'Feel,' 'Humble' and 'XXX' come fast, furious and almost purist in nature." Spin - "Kendrick is at his best when he's rapping through the abyss, and better when his flow pulls in rappers from times past. On 'ELEMENT,' he catapults through Kid Capri's brooding, copping Juvenile's 'Ha' flow and working in a 2Pac conspiracy reference." Entertainment Weekly - "Lamar deploys his generational lyrical gift in a search for answers to 2017's pervasive chaos....His dazzling verbal flows prove he's still hip-hop's best..." Uncut - "A rapper at his peak, blessed with a flow, nuance and unostentatious authority that currently feels unparalleled." NME (Magazine) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "`DAMN. is by far his shortest release to date -- but the ideas, thoughts and feelings it contains are massive, weighty things, from sexual tension to deep, dark depression." Clash (Magazine) - "[H]is most cerebral and self-conscious offering yet, making sense of his thoughts with the listener as a fly on the wall inside his brain."