Kendrick Lamar's mum had the best reaction to his new album

Kendrick Lamar released his fourth studio album, DAMN. to a shower of accolades and sales.

The album seated itself straight to number one in the US charts, and had the highest single-week sales than any other album this year.

To say it did well would be a gross understatement.

Lamar’s mum had the sweetest response to her son’s success.

And it involved lots of emojis.

The exchange has amassed almost half a million likes on Twitter.

People liked it. A lot.

And others shared their own parents' attempts at emojing:

It was really, really cute.

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