Check out this track-by-track review of Kendrick Lamar’s latest. Kendrick Lamar has never been just a rapper—he’s a storyteller, a critic, and a cultural architect. With his latest album ...
Nothing has been the same since Drake and Kendrick Lamar first collaborated in 2011. By Carl Lamarre Everyone wanted this: a lyrical death match between the biggest rappers in the game today ...
Kendrick Lamar has dropped the music video for “Squabble Up,” a cut included on his surprise-released album “GNX” that arrived on Friday morning. Directed by Calmatic, the video is the ...
Midway through his snarling Drake diss, “Not Like Us,” Kendrick Lamar issued a succinct, but forceful personal mission: “Sometimes you gotta pop out and show n—as.” It was both a plan of ...
Americans love a strongman. ADVERTISEMENT You have to assume Kendrick Lamar believes something similar about the world of hip-hop. That evil does exist, and that it only responds to force ...
By Jon Caramanica Every so often, Kendrick Lamar steps into the present. The rapper, 37, is so mindful of hip-hop history, his role in it and the internal logic of the genre that it often seems ...