“We were telling them this needs to be this, and they didn’t want to hear us,” Free explained. “They’re like, ‘No, this is how it needs to be done.’ So it was just me and Kendrick in there being like, ‘No we’re going to do it like this.’” Kendrick added that ...
Dionne Warwick was seemingly tired of Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us," while listening to the Drake diss for an interview with NPR for a segment titled “Nobody Asked for This (But I’m Gonna Tell You Anyhow),” in which she reviewed modern music. When the interview played the hit ...
The Toronto rapper has filed his second lawsuit against the music giant, with his lawyer having previously dropped allegations that UMG engaged in a "pay-to-play" scheme with iHeartRadio to boost Kendrick Lamar’s "false song" "Not Like Us" on the airwaves. Yes, second lawsuit — this ...
"I want people to know that Tan and I—we will be fine," he toldVanity Fair. "There was a situation, and that's between Tan and I, and it has nothing to do with the show. It was something personal that had been brewing—and nothing romant...
But this year, there’s Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” — the savage climax of his epic beef this spring with Drake, which despite its barbed bars became an ebullient summer anthem, blaring through car speakers and soundtracking block parties and barbecues. It’s also a contender for so...
Kendrick Lamar has kept relatively quiet in 2020, but in an conversation with rising rapper Baby Keem, he's revealed what's taking him so long to make a new album. In the interview the two conducted for i-D, Kung-Fu Kenny indicated he tries to do something entirely new with each of...
In 12 songs over 44 minutes, "GNX" gets straight to the point. Lamar is not burdening himself with some high concept or struggles with self and society — as he's said before, "he is not your savior." Instead, like on past collaborations like "The Hillbillies" or "range brothers" wit...
However, Cena let the hip-hop community down on Wednesday when he admitted to Pro Football Hall of FamerShannon Sharpeon“Club Shay Shay”that he hadn’t heard Kendrick Lamar’s“Not Like Us”or “bar one” of the “beef” between Lamar and fellow rap titan, Drake. ...
The Pulitzer board handed out its first prize for music in 1943, and for the next seven decades, the award was given exclusively to artists working in the genres of classical music and, in more recent years, jazz. But yesterday, Kendrick Lamar bucked that trend. The Compton-born r...
Why Kendrick Lamar Still Makes Sense While the criticisms from New Orleans are valid, Kendrick Lamar’s selection as the halftime headliner is hard to argue against from a broader perspective. Since his breakthrough withgood kid, m.A.A.d cityin 2012, Lamar has co...