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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....
...“I’m addressing you, your honour, and the prosecution. Aren’t you afraid to witness what our country is turning into?...
...“I’m not being a racist, I’m being realistic.” Stanton had yet to decide which candidate to back, adding that she might go along to listen to Galloway, whom she called “quite a character”....
...I’m for breaking up conglomerates like Alphabet and Apple that are holding companies of firms in unrelated industries....
...But I’m curious what you both think....
...Union president Lynne Fox said the letter was being reviewed. “We’ve never said no to meeting with Starbucks. Anything that moves bargaining forward in a positive way is most welcome,” she said....
...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.”...
...It’s an extraordinary performance — catch it at the Gillian Lynne Theatre before it closes....
...“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....
...Crazy for You Gillian Lynne Theatre, London On the opening night of Crazy for You in London, director and choreographer Susan Stroman stepped on to the stage to thank not just her cast — led by the sensational...
...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....
...“She said to me, Julia, now I’m 50 I regret it, I haven’t had children and I haven’t had a meaningful relationship. We both cried, because how awful, to get to 50 and realise that that was a mistake.”...
...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....
...“I’m now at a point where it’s a passionate plea; we can open safely,” Lloyd Webber told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Wednesday. “Just please, please, let us get open,” he added....
...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....
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