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...Washington hoped the USS Gerald R Ford strike carrier group, plus further US forces, would deter Iran and its myriad proxies in the region and contain the crisis....
...Austin also extended the deployment of the USS Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group, which is one of two stationed near Israel....
...After visiting Bahrain, where the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet is stationed, the defence secretary will stop aboard the USS Gerald R Ford aircraft carrier, currently in the eastern Mediterranean, and also travel...
...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....
...Ramaphosa has identified a retired judge to head the Lady R inquiry but has yet to name that person or finalise the terms of reference for the probe, his office said this week....
...He has fallen off the jazz radar of late, but remains busy behind the scenes in high-profile hip-hop and R&B — credits range from Nas and Mos Def to Mary J Blige and Kendrick Lamar....
...Her song “People” was spotted on TikTok by the label’s A&R manager, Melanie Ijieh. Libianca was signed in December 2022 when the song was mixed by Jae5 and officially released....
...Her refusal to be rushed, even her reluctance to finish, marked her out as her own woman, determined to make a space for herself in mainstream R&B and hip-hop....
...Back to hip hop, R&B. But actually what I would like is, is that a long time ago, she once talked about her love of Broadway musicals and how she would love to do a Broadway musical....
...All the major names from the US summer festival circuit will be there — Kendrick Lamar, Foo Fighters, ODESZA, Janelle Monae....
...Additional reporting by Felicia Schwartz in Washington...
...The Western-themed “Old Town Road” was accessorised by a life-size puppet horse and the ingenious interpolation of Ginuwine’s hit song “Pony”, a classic of 1990s R&B....
...He co-produced a song on Kendrick Lamar’s album Damn when he was 18. By then, he had already spent several years as guitarist in R&B group The Internet, an offshoot from LA rap collective Odd Future....
...The backing band gave their 1990s R&B hits an old-fashioned soul revue feel, while super-slick dancers did backflips....
...UK vocalist Tiana Major9 sings the title track’s R&B hook. The mix of styles and geographies continues in the lyrics. In romantic slowie “Beautiful”, Kojey quotes Jay-Z....
...“He was fascinated with the idea of real young teenage girls,” Lamar Fike, a former member of his entourage, once said. “It scared the hell out of all of us.”...
...A bittersweet cover of Kendrick Lamar’s “How Much a Dollar Cost” unfolds over rock-solid hip-hop and Scott’s “Perspectives/Postpartum” sensuously ebbs and flows....
...The 14 songs occupy a shifting zone between pop, rap and R&B. Different styles are applied with clear-eyed commercialism but also fluency....
...His mentor Dr Dre, the album’s executive producer, seemed to want to place the idiosyncratic R&B singer in the framework of a post-Kendrick Lamar West Coast rap scene, which Paak attempted with a mix of...
...Lead single “Tints” felt tauter, more funked up than its breezy studio incarnation featuring Kendrick Lamar....
...The most-nominated artists — Jay Z with eight, Mr Lamar with seven and Mr Mars with six — were hip-hop and R&B acts....
...The wares in these virtual hip-hop bazaars are organised by sub-genre (“trap”, “gangsta rap”), mood (“motivational”, “haunting”) and who they sound like (“Kendrick Lamar-type beat”)....
...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....
...“The Weekend” embeds a Justin Timberlake sample in a slow R&B finger-clicker about three women sharing a Casanova....
...“I Am”, from the Black Panther soundtrack, had a hypnotic R&B pulse....
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