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Kendrick Lamar disappears from stage during concert, leaving fans puzzled

Rapper Kendrick Lamar is known for dazzling and amazing people through his clever wordplay and lyrics in many songs during his career. He’s won multiple Grammy Awards for his work from albums including To Pimp a Butterfly and Damn, as well as songs including Loyalty, Humble, and King’s Dead. Some may even feel that Kendrick

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Kendrick Lamar surprises fans with birth of new child revealed in new album cover

Rapper Kendrick Lamar is set to release his fifth studio album, much to the delight of his diehard fans everywhere. The arrival of the newest project comes five years after his previous album, Damn, which had every song on it go platinum. Ahead of the new Kendrick album dropping, the 14-time Grammy winner surprised many

Kendrick Lamar showed up ‘to win’ after taking on role as drug addict on Power

Grammy-award and Pulitzer Prize winner Kendrick Lamar will be making a guest appearance on this Sunday’s episode of Power on Starz. It is his first role in scripted television, with new footage released by the network showing an interview Lamar gave to showrunner Courtney Kemp. It comes after it was revealed at the Television Critics Association

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30 best albums of 2015

The year 2015 is over, and Monsters and Critics’ music team of editor Kieran MacIntyre and writers Bella Elbaum and Ethan Goodman looked back and selected the best of 2015 albums for you to check out: 30. Diät – Positive Energy The title of this record may seem like a bit of a misnomer but

Nominees For 58th Grammys Announced

Earlier this morning the nominees for the 58th Annual Grammy Awards were announced, and Kendrick Lamar dominates the field with 11 nominations in nine categories. The awards ceremony will be held on Feb. 15th. Listed below are some of the awards, for the full list of nominees click here: The nominees for Record of the

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Life is Beautiful Is Redefining the Festival Experience

Every year millions of people from all over the world flock to the wild west paradise that is Las Vegas, maybe to win big at luminous monoliths guised as casinos, or maybe to find the American dream, as Hunter S Thompson had attempted to over 40 years ago. This past weekend over 90,000 people, including

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What We Are Listening To On Independence Day

National pride, like any personal relationship, is an equipoise of like and dislike, using the words “like” or “dislike” to suffice for the extremes of the two is staid, but logical. We can yammer about what we enjoy or detest about the United States of America till the cows come home. Be you an intransigent

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Review: Kendrick Lamar “To Pimp a Butterfly”

After three years, Kendrick Lamar is back with his follow up to the superb “good kid m.A.A.d city,” and holy s**t, it hits hard. The production is expansive, with glossy G-Funk grooves, squealing free jazz horns, dark atmospheres, clicky beats and swirling psychedelic synths. Lyrically, he doesn’t waste a second, discussing racism, identity, class division,