Kendrick Lamar just dropped his highly-anticipated new album 'Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers'

• Kendrick Lamar released his highly-anticipated album "Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers" overnight.
• The 18-track record is his final album with his label Top Dawg Entertainment.

Kendrick Lamar released his highly-anticipated album "Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers" overnight — his final album for his label Top Dawg Entertainment.

And already, it appears that it has caused an outage on Apple Music.

The new album comes a day after the rapper unveiled the album's cover art on Instagram, which appeared to show him and his fiancée, Whitney Alford, as parents of two.

The 18-track record features the likes of Portishead's Beth Gibbons on "Mother I Sober" and Sampha on "Father Time."

"As I produce my final TDE album, I feel joy to have been a part of such a cultural imprint after 17 years. The Struggles. The Success. And most importantly, the Brotherhood," Lamar posted on his website in August, using his mysterious new alter-ego Oklama.

His fifth studio album is the much-hyped follow-up to his 2017 album "Damn," which won best rap album at the 2018 Grammy Awards and that year's Pulitzer Prize for music.

Already, fans are studying the album's first single, "The Heart Part 5," for meaning after the music video was released last Sunday.

In the video, Lamar employs deep-fake technology to transform into Will Smith, Kanye West, O.J. Simpson, and Jussie Smollett, among others — mostly polarizing figures who have run afoul of public opinion at one point in their lives.

"In a land where hurt people hurt more people, fuck callin' it culture," Lamar raps as Will Smith in one segment.

Since his major-label debut "Good Kid, M.A.A.D City" in 2012, Lamar has become known as one of the most successful and important rappers of his generation, and has even been referred to as "the artist of the decade."