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Starting today, Kendrick Lamar fans will have the option of participating in an interactive in-app experience on Spotify in which they can visually represent what they believe to be the Pulitzer Prize-winning artist’s top 5 projects. In short, the new feature—formally known as My Top 5: Kendrick Lamar Projects—allows listeners to pick what they consider to […]

Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show performer Kendrick Lamar’s 2015 album To Pimp a Butterfly is the subject of the latest chapter of Higher Ground and Spotify’s The Big Hit Show podcast, hosted by Alex Pappademas. And in the first episode, fans get a chance to hear from Kendrick himself, as well as from collaborators including Sounwave. An early […]

Elusive beatmaker and hip-hop savant Madlib has collaborated with everyone from Kanye West, to Erykah Badu, to the late MF DOOM, but he apparently missed the opportunity to join forces with Kendrick Lamar on the Grammy award-winning album To Pimp a Butterfly.  In a new interview with the Guardian, the prolific producer admitted that he […]

In an interview with Kevin Durant and his podcast co-host Eddie Gonzalez, engineer Derek “MixedByAli” Ali revealed just how much music Kendrick Lamar leaves on the cutting room floor. Ali has worked with Kendrick on every one of his solo albums since 2012’s Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City, but he says he’s worked on a lot more than […]

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 […]