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So What Is Kendrick Lamar Actually Dropping On April 7

... "I heard some new 🔥 from @kendricklamar. Y'all ain't ready!" he wrote. If Kendrick's making moves and going out of his way to play new music for Apple employees, it's unlikely he would do it for just one song. So maybe it is an album. Now, there's also the Coachella factor, which is a wild card. Kendrick is set to headline the two-weekend California music festival that begins April 14, one week after we all need to get our shit together. A single release seems more sensible beforehand, since Kendrick probably won't be performing new material from the album until he hits the road for a lengthy tour. Then again, he could drop an album and announce his tour simultaneously. Here's where we need to account for Kendrick's previous album rollout. Let's skip Untitled Unmastered , since that was more of a b-sides/afterglow project. "i" came out nearly six months before To Pimp a Butterfly was released, and while its early drop may have been to grab some Grammy shine (it worked; the song won Best Rap Performance and Best Rap ...

How Kendrick Lamar And Big Sean's Relationship Went Wrong

... last few years, healthy competition between the most relevant rappers in today's conversation has turned into something more vicious. With no names being thrust into Sean or Kendrick's bars, we can only look at they ways they've operated and the subtle lines they've previously committed to tape. Where did this bad blood between Detroit's finest and Compton's own come from? It's tough to say, but even Ray Charles can see that something is awry. Here's a look at their relationship. Aug. 13, 2013: Big Sean releases "Control (HOF)". On the evening of Aug. 13, 2013, anyone who hadn't been paying attention to who was truly in the conversation got a stiff wake-up call thanks to Kendrick Lamar, who ran though this No I. D.-produced cut like a hurricane. Not only did he wash Big Sean on his own shit, he took it a step further and called out everyone who moved the needle, putting them on proper notice. I'm usually homeboys with the same niggas I'm ...

Why Drake Is A Genius And Kendrick Is The King

... & Life   >   Why Drake is a genius and Kendrick is the king. Why Drake is a genius and Kendrick is the king. By Justin Cait on March 29, 2017. Pin It. It took a few delays, some intra-rap game beef and lots of patience, but Drake fans can finally rejoice. On March 18, Drizzy Drake’s long- awaited project “More Life” dropped through Apple Music’s OVO Sound Radio, then on all platforms following the initial stream. With some help from his widespread audience, Drake broke single-day streaming records on both Spotify (76.3 million) and Apple Music (89.9 million). So basically, Drake is rolling in it even more than before, but how did this “playlist” make such a huge impact in such a short amount of time. Well, the project contains 23 songs that appeal to all of Drake’s variety of listeners. It can be broken up into four different categories of songs: rapper Drake, singer Drake, soliloquy Drake ...

You Shouldn't Underestimate Drake In A Beef With Kendrick Lamar

... Zach on Twitter for jokes and hot takes here. Mar 30, 2017. Image via Getty/David Wolff - Patrick. I have  witnessed a lot of tomfoolery on my Twitter timeline in recent days. As  soon as Kendrick Lamar ended his hiatus with the monstrous “The Heart Part 4,” Rap Twitter had to bring up Drake. Why? Because that’s what rap Twitter does. Its members debate Drake and Kendrick Lamar until the data plans tap out. Even when it was determined that K-Dot was more than likely giving Big Sean bars on the track , the Twitter fingers returned to TDE vs. OVO. It’s a running cycle that will never end, and that’s fine. While I mostly block out this debate in 2017 , there was some fuckery that came up during this last go around that I just had to address. 6 Ways Drake Could Respond To Kendrick (And Win). There were ridiculous claims that Drake wouldn’t be able to hold his own in a beef with Kendrick. The debate wasn’t even about if Drake would win said imaginary beef—no, it was a really a question of if he could even hang. Get a bar or two ...

From Hip-hop To Supreme And Palace

... the uniform for rappers from Grandmaster Flash to Kendrick Lamar. In the Netflix series, Hip-Hop Evolution , Nelson George connects Run DMC’s success under Def Jam’s Russell Simmons specifically with their Adidas tracksuits, a pillar of the streetwear look, and one worn on the streets of New York at the time. “One of the most important things he did in his whole career was get them out of those checkered jackets and put them in the Adidas and make them more street,” says George. “That was a gamechanger.” The group went on to sign a sponsorship deal with Adidas in 1986, the first non-athletes to do so. Street spirit … the queue for the spring/summer drop at Palace, Brewer Street, London. Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian. Sacha Jenkins, who directed the hip-hop fashion documentary Fresh Dressed , says streetwear developed over the next decade within the black community. “People were buying their pants too big but no one was monetising it,” he says. “People were like: ‘Wait a minute, there’s a business model here.’” ...