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...The best gift I’ve given recently is taking my partner to see Kendrick Lamar at the O2. Kendrick is one of the few people I can listen to while working. It was really fun....
...“We’d never seen anything like it,” says Cecilie Bahnsen....
...Drinks are fittingly summery and nod to iconic songs: my favourite cocktail is the “Good Kid, M.A.A.D Litty” (a riff on the Kendrick Lamar album) made with tequila, hibiscus and lemongrass syrup, guava nectar...
...Kendrick Lamar has gone on tour with an expensive-sounding English therapist....
...He’d just get up and go to the studio the next day.” Hus’s drive has been matched by Bah and Jalloh....
...To echo this notion, she worked with Duval Timothy, Sampha and Kendrick Lamar to create the show’s soundtrack....
...So I think that the fact that you have someone like her and someone like Kendrick Lamar and indeed Taylor Swift with Midnights, Folklore, Evermore, all of these have themes running through them....
...Slowly, incrementally, she has shifted from cult outsider to industry heavyweight, worn by Rihanna, Drake or Kendrick Lamar – who gave her the ultimate accolade of namechecking her in a song....
...Kendrick Lamar is one of them. The US rapper found himself being serenaded with the chant by tens of thousands of festival-goers in the middle of his festival-closing set on the Pyramid Stage....
...All the major names from the US summer festival circuit will be there — Kendrick Lamar, Foo Fighters, ODESZA, Janelle Monae....
...Tosh Wanogho-Maud and Mitchell Zhangazha are terrific and charismatic as David Ruffin and Eddie Kendricks....
...Apparently, Beyoncé and Jay-Z were here recently for a Kendrick Lamar concert after-party....
...I just wish in those label meetings, where I felt degraded, that I’d shouted even louder.”...
...Having established a reputation as an assertive, charismatic performer when opening for Lauryn Hill — who inspired her music — and Kendrick Lamar, Tembo released her debut album The Return in September....
...Asked about his ambitions today, he says that if he weren’t in fashion, he’d be making ceramics....
...“We’d get two or three requests [for the next show], and we’d be completely over the moon.”...
...“I wouldn’t want to apply myself to get a deal without feeling I was ready, so they’d be like, ‘Cross that guy’s name off’,” he says....
...Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith, chief executive of rapper Kendrick Lamar’s record label, Top Dawg, brought SZA to Ms Gerson because he wanted her to meet a woman in charge....
...You’d get all these tweets, posts and ‘reaction videos’ in turn, and social media impacts on the mainstream media....
...I’d been braced for a quiet interview....
...On stage at the British Summer Time festival in Hyde Park, facing 50,000 people and the setting sun, Kendrick Lamar looked as though he was constructing a particularly complicated argument....
...I’d never seen a guy with a leather bag.”...
...Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly emerged last year from the overlap between LA’s jazz and rap worlds....
...“Listen to Kendrick Lamar’s record [To Pimp a Butterfly], it’s extraordinary,” he suggests. “That’s changing the music. Listen to D’Angelo’s [Black Messiah]....
...You can hear the Funkadelic and Parliament bandleader’s influence in numerous recent albums, from the most praised (D’Angelo, Kendrick Lamar) to more obscure efforts, such this debut from Californian DJ...
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