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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....
...But I’m curious what you both think....
...Unhedged: I’m curious about the different risk-adjusted return profiles of private and public credit markets....
...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...
...The challenge was willingly accepted by a fervent audience, who rapped along to back catalogue favourites such as “m.A.A.d city” and serenaded Lamar by singing his name between songs....
...Kendrick Lamar: Mr Morale & The Big Steppers The first album in five years from Kendrick Lamar opens with the words: “I’ve been going through something.”...
...“I’m not a planner.” She shakes her head. “I’m not a strategist.” Has she ever tried to be one? “No!”...
...To echo this notion, she worked with Duval Timothy, Sampha and Kendrick Lamar to create the show’s soundtrack....
...Its mix of fast beats and abstraction threw down a challenge — although early outings for crowd-pleasers such as “m.A.A.d city” and “King Kunta” showed an entertainer’s nous amid the high art....
...“I’m not going to send my pieces out for production in another country that I don’t have any connection to,” he says. “I’m an American designer. I want to engage with communities here.”...
...You drive into Yellowstone National Park, one of the nation’s great legacies, down into the Lamar Valley, and then fish on the winding Soda Butte Creek while bison graze in the distance....
...They are a very BBC mannerism, having also appeared lately in Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley and Fake Psychic, about the fraudster M Lamar Keene....
...A quartet came next, led by multi-instrumentalist Ben LaMar Gay, based on his album Open Arms to Open Us....
...Apparently, Beyoncé and Jay-Z were here recently for a Kendrick Lamar concert after-party....
...“But because of the project, I’m happy to tell you that the advance was $650,000,” she says. “That’s for two books, so I’m only halfway through the work.”...
...The song’s biblical imagery (“I’m not fazed, only here to sin”) points to a real-life split between sacred and secular in his background....
...“In the furniture stores we visit, I’m filled with a strange, unspecific desire. I want everything and nothing,” Biss writes in Having and Being Had....
...There are switches in accent and emphasis, from a Kendrick Lamar-influenced routine in “Woman” to the staccato tempo of her rap in “Options”....
...The group’s “irreplaceable” catalogue, as described by UBS, boasts The Beatles, Kendrick Lamar, Taylor Swift, Oliva Rodrigo and The Weeknd, whose hit “Blinding Lights” became the most streamed song on Spotify...
...When people say this verdict means that music is finally getting its #MeToo moment, well, I’m afraid I’m cynical.” Lajoie has painful first-hand experience of this....
...I’m optimistic because, again, we’ve been back and forth on all of this.”...
...“But this feels like a more drastic move and I’m much more worried about what this will do to global health.”...
...Social comment appears too, in a sideways fashion (“Build a wall, let’s jump the fence, I’m over this”)....
...Since then, they’ve released two albums: I’m All Ears won a Q Award in 2018 for its playful, peculiar pop....
...“I’m at the point where, the older generation, I’m still in touch with them, I still work with them and connect with them, but then I’m also completely in touch with the new generation....
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