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With basically no warning, Kendrick Lamar released his new album, GNX, on Friday, and he caught everybody’s attention from the jump. On the album’s first song, “Wacced Out Murals,” Lamar mentions three veteran rappers by name, and each has responded to the name-checks, as Stereogum notes. First, Lamar raps, “Used to bump Tha Carter III, […]
Kendrick Lamar’s 2022 album, Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers, took fans on a journey through intense personal growth. With his final project on TDE and Aftermath, he closed an important chapter and could have then stepped away from rapping to focus on his company pgLang. Thanks to a beef with Drake, however, Kendrick has […]
In a supremely strange coincidence, Kendrick Lamar and Father John Misty have released new albums in the same year for over a decade: 2012, 2015, 2017, 2018, and 2022. That pattern continued today with Father John Misty’s Mahashmashana, which was followed by Lamar’s surprise releasing GNX. With his typical dry sense of humor, FJM’s J. Tilman […]
Elsewhere, Lamar has soundtracked a Chanel short film, played a Pop Out concert in Inglewood, California, and kept his and Dave Free’s pgLang enterprise ticking along, dropping a bespoke phone last year. He also reunited with Baby Keem for “The Hillbillies,” in late 2023, and adopted the title to headline Camp Flog Gnaw. Released in […]
The 2007-08 Celtics just can’t get along. Kendrick Perkins eviscerated his championship-winning teammate and fan favorite Brian Scalabrine on Tuesday. Perkins, who was noticeably absent from the Celtics’ 2023-24 championship ring night to start the season, said, “I don’t give a f–k” when asked on the “All The Smoke” podcast whether it was true that […]