• Kendrick Lamar Is First 'Late Show with Stephen Colbert' Music Guest

    Stephen Colbert's version of The Late Show on CBS is less than a month away, and just a few days after announcing his first guest (George Clooney), yesterday (Aug. 10) at the Television Critics Association summer press conference, the comedian and future talk show host announced his first musical guest: Kendrick Lamar.

  • Kendrick Lamar Dissing Drake on Dr. Dre's 'Compton' Verses?

    Drake and Meek Mill are the two names on everybody's tongue right now, but it seems as if the former emcee has bigger problems than Nicki Minaj's boyfriend: Kendrick Lamar may have taken shots at Drizzy during his guest spots on Dr. Dre's Compton release.

  • Dr. Dre Shares New Album Details: 'Straight Outta Compton' OST Coming

    Ice Cube stopped the music world in its tracks last week when he announced that Dr. Dre would be releasing a new album this week. Immediately people starting thinking about the long lost Detox project that will never be released, but instead Dre clarified that he curated the soundtrack for the upcoming Straight Outta Compton film, which is based on his life in N.W.A.

  • Old Kendrick Lamar Track as K.Dot 'Hub City's Wild Side' Leaks

    A peek into what Kendrick Lamar was before he was the superstar rapper behind the critically-acclaimed album To Pimp a Butterfly has now arrived online. Today (July 30), a newly surfaced track from the "Alright" rapper's days as K. Dot leaked on to the Internet, titled "Hub City's Wild Side."

  • 'See You Again' Gains AC Airplay; More Charlie Puth, No Wiz Khalifa

    Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth's "See You Again" may be done at the top of the Hot 100, but it's just now picking up steam on the Adult Contemporary charts. This may surprise conservative listeners everywhere, as hip-hop is about as welcome on AC radio as Iggy Azalea at the BET Awards. The trick? Getting soulful crooner Puth to release his own version of the song, minus Khalifa's headlining raps.

  • 7 Hip-Hop Guest Spots for George Clinton's 75th Birthday: Snoop, Tupac, More

    Music Times wants to wish George Clinton, the iconic bandleader behind Parliament and Funkadelic, as well as the greatest figures in funk music history. We could spend thousands and thousands of words describing how great his bands were in the studio and live onstage...but that's a theme that's been reworked thousands and thousands of times. One subject that doesn't get as much respect is Clinton's influence on the world of hip-hop. If you don't believe us, just check out how many guest spots he's done for hip-hop tracks over the years, from Snoop Dogg to Tupac to Kendrick Lamar. We chose the biggest names that Clinton has worked with just to demonstrate how far and wide his appreciation in the genre stretches.

  • Jidenna and Kendrick Lamar Pair Up For 'Classic Man (Remix)' Visual [WATCH]

    It has definitely been the summer of Jidenna and his "Classic Man" movement. On the heels of the break out song that catapulted the rising star to the top of the chart, he does it again by enlisting the help of TDE star Kendrick Lamar to grace the beat and give his Midas touch to the track. The pair head to the west coast to shoot the visual for the "Classic Man" remix.

  • Kendrick Lamar 'The Blacker the Berry' Artwork Spawns Lawsuit

    Kendrick Lamar is facing a lawsuit over an image he used during promotion of his new album To Pimp a Butterfly. Freelance photographer Giordano Cipriani has filed a lawsuit against K. Dot, claiming that the emcee used one of his images without authorization to promote his album sample track "The Blacker the Berry."
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