W e’re going to miss this show.” I’m in the passenger seat of a new-model Mercedes that’s basically parked in Paris traffic. Steve Lacy sits in the back on aux duty, running through a playlist featuring the French electronic duo Air, M.I.A., and Faye Webster. We’re heading to the Bourse …
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The nominations for the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards are here, with Lady Gaga, Kendrick Lamar, and Sabrina Carpenter among this year’s most-nominated artists. Gaga led all contenders with an impressive 12 nominations, thanks largely to her collaboration with Bruno Mars, “Die With a Smile,” which is up for Video …
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Ten years after Sam Beam of Iron and Wine and Band of Horses‘ Ben Bridwell delivered Sing Into My Mouth, the duo is back for another round of covers. Their latest EP, Making Good Time, is slated for release on Sept. 12 and leading the offering is a rendition of …
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Clipse have dropped a mesmerizing and unsettling new video for “Chains & Whips,” the standout track with Kendrick Lamar from the hip-hop duo’s long-awaited new album, Let God Sort Em Out. Directed by Gabriel Moses, the visual is largely filled with somewhat ordinary scenes that are rendered with strange, stretched-out …
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Kendrick Lamar‘s monumental career and his cultural impact will soon be a topic of discussion and study at Temple University. A course titled, “Kendrick Lamar and the Morale of M.A.A.D City,” will be available to all students during the Fall 2025 semester, with Timothy Welbeck, a professor for the Department …
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Zul-Qarnain Kwame Nantambu, the Kendrick Lamar dancer who held up the flags of Sudan and Palestine during the Super Bowl Halftime Show, has been arrested. On Thursday, Louisiana State Police announced officers had arrested the 41-year-old performer for allegedly “resisting an officer” and “disturbing the peace by interruption of a …
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TDE’s Ray Vaughn is the newest member of the RCA roster. The label announced his signing today, on the heels of his The Good The Bad The Dollar Menu mixtape and his selection to XXL‘s 2025 freshman class. Vaughn also garnered headlines for his part in a bicoastal barfest against …
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Our Pop Out conversation with DJ Hed was so plentiful that some of the gems he dropped couldn’t make the original piece, where we talked to 13 acts who performed at his concert-opening set. He was followed by sets from DJ Mustard, who had noteworthy acts such as Tyler, The …
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A year ago today, Kendrick Lamar’s one-night-only The Pop Out: Ken & Friends concert shut down LA (and the rap world) on Juneteenth. And while so much of the attention centered on Kendrick performing the Drake diss “Not Like Us” a whopping five times, the Compton rhymer was also lauded …
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Drake is probably not feeling too hot after his hometown of Toronto showed a lot of love to Kendrick Lamar during the Compton rapper’s co-headlining shows with SZA in the city last week. He’s taking it out on Jagmeet Singh, the former federal leader of the New Democratic Party, who …
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