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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....
...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....
...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....
...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....
...All the major names from the US summer festival circuit will be there — Kendrick Lamar, Foo Fighters, ODESZA, Janelle Monae....
...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....
...Mars and Kendrick Lamar dominated the ceremony, scoring six and five awards respectively to cap off a year dominated by hip-hop and R&B as digital streaming dominates music’s biggest market....
...“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]....
...Meanwhile, the music is at the moodier end of the spectrum, slow-burning R&B jams without chintz or melodrama....
...He also played on and created some of the arrangements for Kendrick Lamar’s much-praised 2015 album To Pimp a Butterfly....
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