Drake is back on top of the charts. $ome $exy $ongs 4 U, the rapper’s collaborative album with fellow Canadian PartyNext Door, has debuted atop Billboard’s 200 albums chart, the publication confirmed on Sunday, marking Drake’s 14th Number One album. The record opened with 287.04 million first-week streams, along with …
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Beyoncé and Blue Ivy both took home trophies at the 56th annual NAACP Image Awards. Other winners during the two-night awards ceremony included Kendrick Lamar, Doechii, Chris Brown, Samara Joy, Malcolm Washington, and Tamela Mann. Beyoncé won two awards, Outstanding Female Artist and Outstanding Album for Cowboy Carter (Outstanding Male …
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“Not Like Us” is back on top. A week after Kendrick Lamar‘s Super Bowl halftime performance, the diss track skyrocketed back to Number One on Billboard’s Hot 100, giving the song its third non-consecutive week atop the chart. “Not Like Us” garnered 49 million streams last week, according to Luminate, …
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Kendrick Lamar‘s GNX has bounced back to Number One on Billboard’s 200 Albums chart, riding a wave of momentum after the rapper’s lauded Super Bowl halftime performance, the publication reports. The album, which hit Number One late last year after its release in December, sold 236,000 units and amassed 161.01 …
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Anthony Mackie let slip that Kendrick Lamar is returning to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In a new interview with Entertainment Tonight, the Captain America: Brave New World star revealed that Lamar provided a song for the film. “Kendrick did the title-song for my movie,” Mackie said, before quipping, “Hope that’s …
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Kendrick Lamar played on the term “the Great American Game” with a polarizing, Samuel L. Jackson-narrated performance that felt like a Spike Lee Joint in music form. Like every Kendrick Lamar offering, the 13-minute set left observers with a lot of takeaways — but they aren’t all good things. Some …
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Spike Lee, like millions of other Americans, tuned in to the Super Bowl halftime show to watch Kendrick Lamar‘s history-making spectacle. As Lee reflected on the Pulitzer-Prize winning artist’s show, the first rapper to headline the coveted mid-game performance, he drew parallels to his own film work. Samuel L. Jackson, …
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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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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. What a week for Kendrick Lamar. Last Sunday, the rapper swept the Grammys, picking up five trophies for “Not Like Us.” One week later, Kendrick Lamar took the …
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Introduced by Samuel L. Jackson in an Uncle Sam outfit, Kendrick Lamar blazed through his back catalog and tracks from his latest release, GNX, at the Super Bowl in New Orleans — and after multiple teases, launched into part of his Drake-savaging hit “Not Like Us.” He skipped the word …
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