Hints and tips:
...Tosh Wanogho-Maud and Mitchell Zhangazha are terrific and charismatic as David Ruffin and Eddie Kendricks....
...Long-rumoured to be in the running to replace the late Virgil Abloh at Louis Vuitton, she has hardly been held up by losing out on the gig to Pharrell Williams....
...At that time it was David Ruffin, Eddie Kendricks, Paul Williams, Melvin Franklin and myself. And it was like something said, ‘Oh, these are the guys that’s gonna make history.’...
...With Anna Kendrick’s Darby finally having found a happily-ever-after at the end of the previous season, the show moves on to pastures new....
...“It is what it is” was among the numerous idiomatic expressions that William Safire covered in his “On Language” column in The New York Times....
...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....
...in which Stevie Wonder-style soul, ska-rock and a fast, focused rap about police brutality by Kendrick Lamar are ingeniously combined....
...As Hancox writes, an 1883 painting of the Thames by William Wylie is titled Toil, Glitter, Grime and Wealth on a Flowing Tide....
...On my bedside table among a pile of other books — Mary Gaitskill, James Baldwin, William Burroughs (yikes!)...
...“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]....
...“Blind Threat” to the dirty south bounce of “Los Awesome” (overseen by Pharrell Williams, with his production hat on)....
...Although he still produces new acts, such as rapper Kendrick Lamar, his solo recording career has taken a back seat since 2008....
...None has been quite so heralded as LA’s – and specifically its notoriously gang-related satellite Compton’s – Kendrick Lamar....
...As on the album, human-condition musings from Cornel West launched flowing modal jazz, but now the classic swing pulse and kaleidoscope of textures was infused with forward-thinking beats – drummer Kendrick...
...The most famous man to emerge from Switzerland since William Tell appeared at the appointed hour wearing what looked like a Mao jacket and long trousers, both pristine white....
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