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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 […]

Mac Miller and Nipsey Hussle get special shout-outs in the liner notes for Schoolboy Q‘s latest. In the CrasH Talk booklet, Q sends a special message of gratitude to both artists, whose tragic deaths partially inspired the album’s delayed release. “A song or an interview won’t explain How mucH of a brutHa u was,” Q […]

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 […]

Don’t come for SZA. The singer wasn’t having any negative comments on a recent post of herself holding a baby. When a follower questioned her blanket-ensconced look, asking if she was homeless, SZA decided to fire back.   SZA’s lack of tolerance for games doesn’t just extend to internet randoms. She shared a shot of a […]

Thankfully, today is the day we get the official video for Schoolboy Q and Travis Scott‘s “Chopstix.” Q formally debuted the track, sans La Flame, with a performance on The Tonight Show last month. The collab was then set to unveil a studio version shortly after, though that release was ultimately postponed following the murder […]

Schoolboy Q isn’t fucking around. Wednesday night, Jimmy Fallon welcomed Q to The Tonight Show studio as the musical guest for the evening. Instead of simply going through with a performance of his recently released new single “Numb Numb Juice,” Q took the opportunity to also unveil another new one. Up top, catch Q’s mini-medley of […]

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 […]

Top Dawg Entertainment’s newest signee Zacari has dropped his debut EP Run Wild Run Free via TDE and Interscope Records. The singer is largely known for his feature on the Kendrick Lamar song “Love” from DAMN. and the songs “Redemption Interlude” and “Redemption” from the Grammy-nominated Black Panther album. The news of Zacari’s signing arrived […]

Jay Rock has dropped off a new track titled “Shit Real” featuring Detroit rapper Tee Grizzley. TDE CEO Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith previously took to social media to tease the track. Listen to Jay Rock’s new song “Shit Real” featuring Tee Grizzley over on Apple Music or below via Spotify. Rock released his third studio album Redemption back […]