Is Taylor Swift Going to Be on Kendrick Lamar's New Album?

Taylor Swift is one of the biggest stars in the world right now and with the rumor mill constantly turning, record producer DJ Snake is claiming the singer will appear on Kendrick Lamar's upcoming album.

Swift, who is slowly wrapping up her record-breaking Eras Tour, and Lamar previously worked together when the rapper appeared on Swift's track "Bad Blood (Taylor Swift song)" from the album 1989. The track was a huge success for both performers, as it became Swift's fourth No. 1 song on Billboard's Hot 100 chart and Kendrick's first career No. 1.

While DJ Snake is the only individual who claims the two musicians would collaborate again, Swift and Lamar both released music produced by Jack Antonoff this year, stoking rumors about the collaboration.

Newsweek emailed spokespeople for Swift and Lamar for comment on Wednesday outside of normal business hours.

DJ Snake revealed the news during a French-speaking interview, which was then posted to X (formerly Twitter) by the account @TSUpdating.

"DJ Snake reveals that Taylor Swift will be featured on Kendrick Lamar's next album!!" the caption reads. At the time of writing, it had been viewed more than 164,000 times.

"Taylor Swift and and Kendrick Lamar were on the same studio with Jack Antonoff and Sounwave in December 2023!!"

The DJ said in the video: "Kendrick's album. There are four or five from most art and there is a feat with Taylor Swift. World premiere."

Lamar is expected to release his sixth studio album in 2024 or 2025, but details are currently under wraps. This would be his first full-length studio album in almost three years.

While neither his nor Swift's teams have verified the news, reports that the two artists are collaborating again have circulated in the past.

On September 18, Swift's longtime friend and producer Antonoff posted an Instagram tribute to Electric Lady Studios, the famed New York City recording studio where the pair have crafted some of Swift's biggest hits. Antonoff captioned the post with a heartfelt tribute to the studio and the music he's created there.

Kendrick Lamar attends The 2023 Met Gala Celebrating "Karl Lagerfeld: A Line Of Beauty" at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 1, 2023, in New York City, and Taylor Swift attends the London premiere... Arturo Holmes/Kevin Mazur/MG23/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue/WireImage for Parkwood

"my room upstairs at ELS. everything is possible in here and i miss it when im gone," he wrote. "spend my days and nights in this small room dreaming about how this music will hit the stage - spend my time on stage honoring what's happened there while saving a piece of the show to bring back with me into this room."

In the Instagram carousel swipe, fans noticed a black and white picture of Swift with producer Sounwave dated December 21, 2023. Sounwave collaborated with the 14-time Grammy winner on three tracks from her 2022 album Midnights, "Glitch," "Karma," and "Lavender Haze." However, this photo was seemingly taken after she recorded Midnights. Swift's 2024 album, The Tortured Poets Department, does not credit Sounwave, which left fans wondering what the trio was working on that day in the studio.

Others brought up how Lamar was reportedly also at Electric Lady Studios that day. While Lamar was featured on 1989 (Taylor's Version), that album came out two months prior in October 2023. Sounwave has also frequently collaborated with Lamar, so the possibilities as to why everyone was at the studio that day are endless.

The pop superstar previously found herself in the middle of Drake and Lamar's well-documented feud when the "God's Plan" rapper not only name-dropped her on his song "Taylor Made Freestyle," released April 19, but used her release of The Tortured Poets Department as a potential reason why Lamar had not responded at the time.

"But now we gotta wait a f****** week 'cause Taylor Swift is your new Top / And if you 'bout to drop, she gotta approve / This girl really 'bout to make you act like you not in a feud," the Canadian artist raps on the song.

Lamar eventually released the track "Not Like Us" on May 4, which hit number one with over 70 million streams. The song calls Drake a liar, along with accusing the 37-year-old of liking underage girls. The tune was in response to Drake's diss track "Family Matters," released on May 4.