Hints and tips:
...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....
...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....
...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....
...At first they tried recording standards, but Gordy shelved those tracks, wanting something suitable for the R&B market. “We was disappointed,” Fakir says. “And we let him know....
...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....
...The backing band gave their 1990s R&B hits an old-fashioned soul revue feel, while super-slick dancers did backflips....
...The 14 songs occupy a shifting zone between pop, rap and R&B. Different styles are applied with clear-eyed commercialism but also fluency....
...A well-received CD, Collagically Speaking, was released, but the band’s barrier-breaking blend of jazz, hip-hop and R&B took wing on the gigs that followed....
...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....
...His clothes are worn by celebrities suggestive of a new and desirable kind of masculinity like Jared Leto and Kendrick Lamar....
...Mr Mars and Kendrick Lamar were the big winners at 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...
...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....
...“I Am”, from the Black Panther soundtrack, had a hypnotic R&B pulse....
...wrote the Black Panther actor Michael B Jordan on Twitter, illustrating his sentiment with seven “fire” emojis....
...SZA Ctrl (RCA) Kendrick Lamar’s Damn has topped the majority of critics’ lists for 2017’s best album....
...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....
...An impressive roster of guests shows the bass-player’s sway in LA’s resurgent hip-hop and jazz scenes, such as Kendrick Lamarr’s incisive rap over the woozy R&B of “Walk on By”....
...So I want to be able to read that B from across the street.”...
...Meanwhile, the music is at the moodier end of the spectrum, slow-burning R&B jams without chintz or melodrama....
...“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]....
...The repertoire includes reworked R&B covers, “Stella By Starlight” and Radiohead’s “Reckoner”. “Get Over” is a duet, featuring a moving Harry Belafonte monologue....
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