Kendrick Lamar

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Kendrick Lamar: Hammersmith Apollo, London
Live Review by Dorian Lynskey, The Guardian, 21 January 2013
ON A snowy night in London, Compton seems as distant as Mars. Twenty-five years ago the Los Angeles suburb was the epicentre of a hip-hop ...
Bottled Lightning: Kendrick Lamar: Hammersmith Apollo, London
Live Review by John Calvert, The Quietus, 23 January 2013
John Calvert heads to a cold Hammersmith to be blown away by Kendrick Lamar — "A private epiphany, the rest is history" ...
Kendrick Lamar: "I am Trayvon Martin. I'm all of these kids."
Profile and Interview by Dorian Lynskey, The Observer, 21 June 2015
LAST YEAR, the director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention presented research demonstrating that "youth living in inner cities show a higher ...
Kendrick Lamar: untitled unmastered (Interscope/Top Dawg)
Review by Jamie Atkins, Record Collector, May 2016
LAST YEAR, under enormous pressure, rapper Kendrick Lamar released one of the most culturally and socially resonant albums in memory, To Pimp A Butterfly. ...
The new cool: how Kamasi, Kendrick and co gave jazz a new groove
Essay by John Lewis, The Guardian, 6 October 2016
A generation of jazz musicians has grown up with hip-hop in its blood. The result is the thrilling reinvention of a genre that has been ...
Sorry, rock fans. Hip hop is the only genre that matters right now.
Comment by Marc Weingarten, The Washington Post, 17 April 2018
NO ONE WHO has heard Kendrick Lamar's stunning album Damn could be at all surprised that it is the first nonclassical or jazz recording to ...
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