Last night, Drake responded to Kendrick Lamar and the rest of rap’s anti-Drizzy cohort — sort of. During a stop on his Big As The What tour in Sunrise, Florida, Drake took a moment to get defiant amid the hysteria about Kendrick’s fiery verse on Future and Metro Boomin’s “Like …
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We Don’t Trust You, the new album from Future and Metro Boomin, is here (the first half anyway), and listeners are abuzz about the 17-song project. Coming in at approximately one hour, the project has elicited plenty of talking points in less than 24 hours. Kendrick Lamar pulled another “Control”-like …
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A day after Universal Music Group threatened to stop licensing its music to TikTok amid a breakdown in deal negotiations, songs from UMG‘s unparalleled stable of artists began vanishing from the social media platform late Wednesday. The removals started gradually late Wednesday evening. The official versions of UMG-owned recordings such …
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Kendrick Lamar lends new music to a short film heralding Chanel’s Spring-Summer 2024 Haute Couture show next week. The Button, a collaboration between the fashion giants and the rapper and Dave Free’s “service company” pgLang, stars actresses Margaret Qualley and Anna Mouglalis along with supermodel Naomi Campbell. Free wrote and …
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Leading up to the Grammy nominations on Nov. 10, Rolling Stone is breaking down 16 different categories. For each, we’re predicting the nominees, as well as who will (and who should) win on Grammy night. Prestige carries weight in the Best Rap Song category. In the 20 times this particular …
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When Kendrick Lamar takes the stage at Kigali, Rwanda’s BK Arena on Dec. 6 for an event called Move Afrika: Rwanda, it will mark the first step in building a global touring circuit on the African continent. Lamar’s entertainment company pgLang is teaming up with Global Citizen, the advocacy organization …
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The sun is barely up, and Taylor Swift is already adding bonus tracks to 1989 (Taylor’s Version): On social media Friday morning, Oct. 27, Swift announced that the re-record was getting a fresh version of the famous “Bad Blood” remix featuring Kendrick Lamar. In her note, Swift celebrated Lamar’s contribution …
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It’s official. Summer is over. The second day of Life Is Beautiful inaugurated the Fall season with a diverse lineup of performers across the festival’s stages in Downtown Las Vegas, with artists such as Kendrick Lamar, Reneé Rapp, the 1975, and Omar Apollo performing throughout the evening. (It might be …
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Beyoncé‘s Renaissance tour functioned as the ultimate birthday party for the reigning queen of Virgo season. On Monday evening, 60,000 BeyHive members — including dozens of celebrity guests — spilled into Inglewood’s SoFi stadium in glimmering outfits to celebrate her 42nd birthday. Attendees likely figured the night would be special …
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Like the first day of Lollapalooza 2023, Day Two featured competing headliners that vied for some 100,000+ people’s attention. On one side was the 1975, whose frontman Matty Healy has been making headlines, and on the other was one of the greatest rappers of all time, Kendrick Lamar. Unlike Thursday, …
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