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...Hip-hop’s biggest names are hurling insults at each other — a veritable feast of roasting and grilling from the self-styled kings, gods and goats of US rap....
...“DNA” had a metallic jingling sound, like the bars of a cage, while “King Kunta”’s funk was amplified to industrial volume....
...The location is a room in the company’s London office, a sleek glass affair in King's Cross. The recipients of Iley’s good-wishes are Moe Bah and Kilo Jalloh of the independent label 5K Records....
...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....
...He mourns the loss of the city’s young drill artists FBG Duck and King Von, both murdered at 26 after their unapologetically macabre storytelling manifested into real-life tragedy....
...Montero Lamar Hill (his real name) was brought up in a religious household in a town outside Atlanta, Georgia. His father is a gospel singer....
...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...
...King & Spalding has hired 16 new partners across the US....
...A gifted bassist, he is a linkman connecting the worlds of jazz and rap, most significantly as a crucial collaborator on Kendrick Lamar’s groundbreaking album To Pimp a Butterfly....
...A few songs have a tossed-off feel to them, like her airy collaboration with Kendrick Lamar on “Nile”, while the snatches of film dialogue disrupt the flow of the music....
...The last word went to Kendrick Lamar....
...Lamar mostly had the stage to himself....
...(“Everything I touch is a damn gold mine,” he declares in “XXX”, a King Midas struggling to control his gifts.)...
...I said, ‘F**king leather, wow! That’s what I want to do!’ It blew my mind. I’d never seen a guy with a leather bag.”...
...Pubs group Greene King says its chairman Tim Bridge is set to retire in May after 11 years in the role and a total of over 45 years with the company....
...Gigs with bluesman Albert King followed. The St Louis music scene had a “sassiness” all of its own, says Sanborn....
...But ancient antipathies were awoken by Kendrick Lamar in a ferocious guest appearance on a 2013 song during which the Compton, LA rapper declared himself “king of New York” and called out his rap peers who...
...George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic, April 18, O2 Academy, Leeds, then touring Two standout albums of recent times, D’Angelo’s Black Messiah and Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly, are imbued with...
...Senators Lamar Alexander, Orrin Hatch and John Barrasso, who chair key committees in the Senate, highlighted their plan in a recent Washington Post opinion piece....
...But then Lamar had often insisted: “This isn’t a concert, it’s a party.” Outside, they were hawking “King of the West” T-shirts....
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