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Kendrick Lamar continues to etch his name next to the greats. On Monday, Chart Data tweeted that K. Dot’s good kid, m.A.A.d city album has tied Eminem‘s The Eminem Show as the only hip-hop studio albums to appear on the Billboard 200 chart for 350 weeks.  .@kendricklamar‘s ‘good kid, m.A.A.d city’ has now spent 350 weeks on […]

Broadcast Music, Inc., one the leading performing rights organizations, has officially signed Pulitzer-winning rapper Kendrick Lamar to a “long term deal.” The company now represents Kendrick’s impressive catalog of music, which includes good kid, mA.A.d city, To Pimp a Butterfly, and DAMN. Kendrick joins a list of Top Dawg Entertainment talent already represented by BMI, including Schoolboy Q, Jay Rock, and […]

Blank Face LP, Schoolboy Q‘s excellent summer 2016 album, will mercifully be getting its follow-up this year with CrasH Talk. In a new interview conducted on the golf course at Calabasas Country Club, Q has credited both the calming game and his Top Dawg family with helping him push through creative difficulties to present fans with his 14-track […]

As members of the hip-hop community gather to honor the life of the late Nipsey Hussle in Los Angeles, Kendrick Lamar wrote an emotional letter in memory of the West Coast rapper.  In 2009, I remember trekking cities alongside Nipsey and family. Both performing as opening acts on The Game LAX Tour. Our sprinter van […]

As witnessed by Antonio Brown and JuJu Smith-Schuster, most people use old direct messages to try to expose a friend turned rival. Drake, however, is attempting to flip this narrative and shared old social media conversations with his famous friends in hopes to inspire some hope.  On Wednesday, Drake posted several screenshots to his Instagram […]

The Kendrick Lamar/Big Sean beef has been marred with deep subliminals that leave room for fans to speculate if these shots were meant for their respective targets. However, on Sunday, a snippet of an unreleased K. Dot record hit the internet in which Kendrick comes the closest he’s ever been to calling Sean out by […]

Terrence “Punch” Henderson, president of Top Dawg Entertainment, revealed an interesting detail about the making of Kendrick Lamar’s third studio album, To Pimp a Butterfly, on the album’s four-year anniversary on Friday. “I had a conversation with JAY-Z during the process of ‘to pimp a butterfly,’” Punch wrote on Twitter. “I told him ‘we are about […]

In early 2018, 2 Chainz hit up social media to announce the release of Rap or Go to the League—his first studio album since 2017’s Pretty Girls Like Trap Music. The 41-year-old rapper shared the news in a short video in which he broke down the significance of the title as well as the socio-political themes the […]

Tumblr is getting quite the traffic boost right now, as Frank Ocean has taken to his preferred announcement platform to seemingly tease the imminent arrival of new music. In one post, Ocean teased the date March 1 and said simply “Solana + KL + Andre.” In another post, he wrote, “? (2019) ? (2019) ? (2020).” […]

Kendrick Lamar rarely tweets but when he does fans pay attentions. So when the TDE rapper did a quick tweet-and-delete, social media erupted into a firestorm with theories around what the now-vanished post could have meant. In the deleted tweet, K. Dot wrote: “Protecting my heart like never before.” The line is from “Some More” […]