kendrick lamar
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Cardi B and Drake Dominate BET's Hip Hop Awards Nominations
Continuing a trend that played out on the Billboard charts earlier this year, Drake and Cardi B are sitting happy atop the BET Hip Hop Awards heap this year, racking up 21 nominations collectively. Drake leads the entire field with 11 nominations, including nods for Album of the Year, for Scorpion, and Lyricist of the…
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The VSB Group Chat: Insecure Season 3, Episode 3, 'Backwards-Like' Recap
Are we getting anywhere with Issa and Daniel as we putt-putt along into episode 3? Welcome back to the shenanigans as we keep the debate and discussion that Insecure inspires going with our weekly chat between Jouelzy and Panama Jackson. Salut. Jouelzy: They’re rolling HBO’s requirement for explicit sex into dream montages and I don’t…
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Kendrick Lamar on Survivor’s Guilt, White People Saying the N-Word and the Magic of South Africa
Kendrick Lamar has been on one hell of a roll this year. The rapper has received both critical acclaim and commercial success since his studio album debut, Good Kid M.A.A.D City, but 2018 has thrust Lamar fully into the forefront of American pop culture. After winning the Grammy for best rap album and a Pulitzer…
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Becky Got Kendrick Lamar M.A.A.D: Rapper Shuts Down White Fan for Repeatedly Rapping N-Word
Another day, another bold Becky. Kendrick Lamar invited a fan onstage during the Hangout Festival this weekend to perform “M.A.A.D City.” Nothing about a white girl in Alabama rapping “M.A.A.D City,” of all tracks, sounds like a good idea, but Kendrick apparently had faith that she’d be smart enough to skip lyrics like “my nigga.”…
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The 2018 BET Awards Nominees Are …
Does it look like I was left off “Bad and Boujee”? Seems like it was forever ago, but it was just last year at the BET Awards red carpet that hip-hop trio Migos sat or, uhm, stood with Complex’s Everyday Struggle hosts DJ Akademiks, Nadeska Alexis and (*cough* former host) Joe Budden, thus creating a…
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If You Love J. Cole, KOD Is Dope. If You Don’t Love J. Cole, KOD Is Trash. Water Is Still Wet
It’s no secret that Jermaine “J. Cole” Cole is one of the most polarizing artists in hip-hop. Possibly ever. He’s got a legion of fans who believe that Light-Skinned Jermaine is the second coming of rap Jesus, and that his super-relatable persona, plus his above-average lyrical content, makes him one of this generation’s greatest artists.…
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How the Pulitzer Board Chose Kendrick Lamar
First Hip-Hop Artist Picked Over Classical, Jazz Acts . . . ‘As a Black Woman,’ Figuring Out Dylann Roof” Lisa Wilson on Ladder to Lead Sports Editors Group Getty, Ava DuVernay Team to Aid Visual Journalists Nominate a J-Educator Who Promotes Diversity The most surprising Pulitzer Prize Monday came at the very end: The last…
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I Had No Idea a Pulitzer Prize for Music Existed Until Kendrick Lamar Won One for Damn.
Seriously, I didn’t even realize there was a Pulitzer Prize for music. Be that as it may, Kendrick “Kung Fu Kenny” Lamar Duckworth has gone ahead and big-leagued every rapper to ever do it by winning a Pulitzer Prize for music for his album Damn. I don’t even know what to do with this information…