• Digable Planets, Maxwell, Jidenna to Perform at Essence Festival 2016

    The Essence Festival 2016 is heading back to New Orleans this Summer and has announced who festival goers can expect to hit the stage for great performances this year. Among the list of old school and new school Hip Hop and R&B legends is Digable Planets, Maxwell, Jidenna and more.

  • Panorama Music Festival Lineup: Arcade Fire, LCD Soundsysten, Kendrick Lamar Headline

    New York City officially has a new event to make up its landscape of cultural event. Months after the creators of Coachella announced an East Coast version, Panorama Music Festival announced its full lineup on Tuesday (March 1), and in its debut year, it's going big. Arcade Fire, Kendrick Lamar and LCD Soundsystem are set to headline the inaugural Panorama year.

  • TDE's CEO Top Dawg Announces 2016 Release Schedule & Newly Signed Artists

    It's hard to believe that it'll be a year since Kendrick Lamar released his sophomore album, To Pimp a Butterfly, and he may be preparing to release some more music this year. TDE's CEO, Top Dawg, has revealed via Instagram the 2016 release schedule for the TDE roster and there might be two newly signed artists. Exciting news!

  • Kendrick Lamar Will Induct N.W.A Into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April

    Celebrities often honor their idols through their art in forms of acting, fashion, music, dance, and more, but how often do they get the chance to present them with an award of achievement? Kendrick Lamar will induct iconic hip-hop collective, N.W.A, into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The ceremony is scheduled to take place on April 8 at the Barclay's Center in Brooklyn, New York.

  • Snoop Dogg Teases Kendrick Lamar, Eminem, Dr. Dre 2016 Tour Dates

    Odds are that, if you could pick a compatible dream lineup for a hip-hop tour in 2016, you would think back to the Up in Smoke tour from 16 years ago with Dr. Dre, Eminem and Snoop Dogg, and hope that Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar would also be on the bill. Without getting too ahead of ourselves, this is apparently the ideal tour for Snoop because he recently spoke about his efforts to make this come together, teasing the possibilities of making it happen in 2016 or sometime in the near future.

  • Funkadelic Release Remix of 'Ain't That Funkin' Kinda Hard on You?' with Kendrick & Ice Cube

    If you can all recall, Funkadelic released a three-disc album back in 2014 titled, First Ya Gotta Shake the Gate, and it featured the hit track, "Ain't That Funkin' Kinda Hard on You?" Then in September of 2015, the group released the Louie Vega remix and it featured Kendrick Lamar. Now, they have just released another round of the remix and it features Ice Cube.

  • Grammys 2016: Celebrities React to Kendrick Lamar's Performance, Shade Kanye West

    On Monday night (Feb. 15) at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards, Kendrick Lamar brought audience members to their feet with a powerful thought provoking performance of “The Blacker the Berry” and “Alright." It didn’t take long for stars in the audience as well as those viewing at home to react to Lamar’s moving performance, and inadvertently shade Kanye West in the process.

  • Grammys 2016: Kendrick Lamar Dominates with Charged 'To Pimp a Butterfly' Medley [WATCH]

    Kendrick Lamar's Grammy-winning and Grammy-nominated album To Pimp a Butterfly is a politically-charged masterpiece that explores race in America, so it should be no surprise that he brought that message to the Grammy Awards. In one of the most epic performances of the night, Lamar took to the stage to perform a medley of tracks from TPAB while making bold statements.

  • Grammys 2016 Album of the Year Nominees, Who Should/Will Win: Can Kendrick Take on Taylor?

    The big question of the 58th Annual Grammy Awards is... can anyone beat Taylor Swift? While she seems almost a lock for one of the big four awards, something like Album of the Year for 1989 may not be guaranteed. Can she beat the innovative rap of her "Bad Blood" collaborator Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly? Or, while alt-rock rule supreme once again, taking this award for Alabama Shakes?
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