Rapper Baby Keem will make a long-overdue return Feb. 20 with his sophomore pgLang/Eerie Times/Columbia album, Ca$ino, which features his cousin Kendrick Lamar on the song “Good Flirts.” A nine-minute behind-the-scenes film can be sampled below about the artist, who has also confirmed an extensive global tour. Ca$ino is the follow-up to the 25-year-old Keem’s […]
Bad Bunny took him Album of the Year honors — the first ever for a Latin artist — for Debí Tirar Más Fotos to cap an entertaining and outspoken night at the 68th Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. The Puerto Rican superstar gave an impassioned speech against recent ICE immigration raids earlier in the evening, […]
Kendrick Lamar Duckworth was born in Compton, California, in 1987, and was still a baby when his hometown became synonymous with gangsta rap with the 1989 release of N.W.A’s Straight Outta Compton. So it might feel preordained that Duckworth, who would record at first as K-Dot and then as Kendrick Lamar, would eventually sign to […]
Rumors of MTV’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. In October, it was announced that many of MTV’s subchannels in Europe and South America would be discontinued at the end of 2025. But the social media telephone game quickly led to many believing that MTV as a whole, in the U.S. and everywhere else, was shutting […]
For the second year in a row, Kendrick Lamar is the top nominee for the Grammy Awards — this time in nine categories, including Album of the Year for GNX and both Song and Record of the Year for “luther” featuring SZA. The 68th annual edition of the awards will be held Feb. 1 at […]
Lady Gaga (12), Bruno Mars (11) and Kendrick Lamar (10) lead the nominees for the 2025 edition of the MTV Video Music Awards, which will air live for the first time on CBS on Sept. 7 from UBS Arena just outside Manhattan. The show will also be simulcast on MTV and stream on Paramount+ in […]
Iron & Wine’s Sam Beam and Band of Horses’ Ben Bridwell will follow up their 2015 covers album Sing Into My Mouth with an EP of new interpretations, Making Good Time, due Sept. 12. The lead track is Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s “Luther,” which can be sampled below. Beam and Bridwell are childhood friends from […]
Saturday Night Live kicked off its 48th season in style. The sketch comedy show enlisted Miles Teller to host and Kendrick Lamar performed as its first musical guest. The Compton rapper performed three songs, “Rich Spirit,” “N95″ and “Father Time” featuring Sampha. All of those songs are off his recently released album Mr. Morale & the […]
Saturday Night Live kicks off its 48th season on Oct. 1. Today, the sketch comedy show announced its first three hosts and musical guests. Kendrick Lamar will open up as the season’s first musical guest, with WILLOW and Megan Thee Stallion to follow on Oct. 8 and 15h, respectively. Megan Thee Stallion will enter an elite […]
Jack Harlow, Kendrick Lamar and Lil Nas X scored a leading seven nominations for the 2022 MTV VMAs, which will be handed out Aug. 28 at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J. Harry Styles and Doja Cat picked up six nominations each, while Billie Eilish, Drake, Dua Lipa, Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift and The Weeknd […]