Kendrick Lamar‘s halftime performance at Sunday’s Super Bowl was the most-watched in history, with more than 133 million people tuning in — and it also may have been the most uncompromising. In a slot that every previous artist has reserved mostly for greatest hits, Lamar only played bits of two …
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Since Kendrick Lamar took aim at Drake with his verse on Future and Metro Boomin’s “Like That” in the spring of 2024, the Compton and Canadian rappers have traded dozens of dark verses (and counting) in a beef unlike any before it. Since then, there have been accusations of domestic …
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Fresh off his five Grammy wins for “Not Like Us,” Kendrick Lamar says fans can expect further “storytelling” at his Super Bowl LIX halftime performance in New Orleans on Sunday night. “I’ve always been very open about storytelling through all my catalog and my history of music, and I’ve always …
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DJ Khaled is officially in album mode. Today the Miami producer released a seven-minute trailer for Aalam of God, his 14th studio album. The post’s lengthy caption reads, “This not my last album this my black album *JAY VOICE*,” referring to Jay-Z’s classic 2005 album. He also reveals that the …
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Our long national nightmare is over: Beyoncé finally won Album of the Year. The Grammys desperately needed her to win this award, so the night felt like a true celebration. The entire 2025 Grammys ceremony was a “just give Beyoncé her damn Album of the Year already” countdown. It all …
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Drake won’t be spending Valentine’s Day alone. The rapper shared a teaser trailer on Instagram for an upcoming project set for release on Feb. 14, titled $exy $ongs 4 U. The release is expected to be the collaborative album he teased with his OVO label mate PartyNextDoor in Toronto last …
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In the mid-2010s, it was Skepta and Stormzy who seemed poised to carry British rap across the Atlantic as the sound of U.K. grime had its crossover moment in the States. However, their success proved to be more of a primer than a full-scale takeover. Grime’s production style — influenced …
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It’s a new year with the same beef. On Wednesday, Drake upped the ante of the Great Rap War by filing a federal lawsuit against his label, Universal Music Group (UMG), for defamation and harassment for their support of Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us.” UMG also distributes Lamar’s music through …
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Drake has withdrawn his legal petition against Universal Music Group (UMG) and Spotify after accusing the companies of colluding to discount the streaming licensing rates on Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” in exchange for increased audibility. In a New York filing on Tuesday obtained by Rolling Stone, Drake’s company Frozen …
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Drake has formalized his contentious battle against Kendrick Lamar‘s diss track “Not Like Us” by going after Universal Music Group, filing a defamation and harassment lawsuit against the major music conglomerate on Wednesday. The Canadian-born rapper, whose real name is Aubrey Drake Graham, claims UMG “unleashed every weapon in its …
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