Kendrick Lamar

Kendrick Lamar won an Emmy for performing at the Super Bowl halftime show and days before this year’s big game, the rap prince gave a memorable performance in Las Vegas. Lamar performed at the Visa Cash App RB Formula One Team 2024 season launch in Sin City, working the stage built like a catwalk on Thursday night. Wearing a suit and bright neon sneakers with a pic in his hair, he ran through a number of his hit songs, including “Humble,” “Alright,” “Bitch, Don’t Kill My Vibe,” “Swimming Pools (Drank),”…

A day after Universal Music Group threatened to stop licensing its music to TikTok amid a breakdown in deal negotiations, songs from UMG‘s unparalleled stable of artists have started to get removed from the social media platform late Wednesday. The removals started gradually late Wednesday evening; The official versions of UMG-owned recordings like Taylor Swift‘s “Cruel Summer,” Olivia Rodrigo‘s “Get Him Back,” and Lana Del Rey’s “Let the Light In” are no longer appearing in search results, while some videos…

pgLang creative partner Dave Free directs Margaret Qualley and Naomi Campbell in short film promoting fashion giant's Spring-Summer 2024 Haute Couture show Kendrick Lamar lends new music to a short film heralding Chanel’s Spring-Summer 2024 Haute Couture show next week. The Button, a collaboration between the fashion giants and the rapper and Dave Free’s “service company” pgLang, stars actresses Margaret Qualley and Anna Mouglalis along with supermodel Naomi Campbell. Free wrote and directed the…

Drake, Sexxy Red, and Lil Yachty made rap sound fun, and artists like Ken Carson and Baby Keem pushed us into new sonic territory While plenty of energy was spent this year debating whether or not rap was still at the forefront of pop culture as it reached its fiftieth anniversary, there was no shortage of exciting new music to enjoy. There was Lil Yachty’s generational run of loosies, each an introduction of new vocal terrain for the increasingly prolific musician, the rise of…

Bringing a stripped-down version of her SOS Tour to the grounds outside Dodger Stadium on Sunday night, SZA closed out Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival — the two-day music festival curated by Tyler, the Creator — with a stylish and soulful flourish. The performance was a victory lap of sorts for the singer-songwriter born Solána Imani Rowel, her first since her nine Grammy award nominations — a record this year — were announced on Friday. Pulling from her critical and commercial 2022 smash album SOS, her…

The two were joined on the stage by festival host Tyler, the Creator  When Tyler, the Creator made a brief cameo in the music video for Kendrick Lamar and Baby Keem’s latest collaboration, “The Hillbillies,” it felt like a tease of something to come. Indeed, this weekend the three returned to Dodger Stadium, where footage for their video was shot, for the Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival.          Hot off their Friday Grammy nomination for Best Rap Performance, Kendrick Lamar and Baby Keem did an…

If there’s one thing aging nu-metal rap-rockers Limp Bizkit are not, it’s subtle. Naturally, that applies to their recent foray into deep fake videos as well. Last month, the band responsible “Nookie,” “Break Stuff,” and the popularization of Dickies shorts released a video for their song song “Out of Style,” where each of the band members’ faces are replaced with a powerful world leader. Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Kin Jung Un, Joe Biden, and Volodymyr Zelensky are, and a hot-dog-wielding Tom Cruise all featured in the…

The top videos on YouTube for 2022 included eulogies for a passed Minecraft star, a coming out video, and a real-life Chocolate Factory.Screenshot: Technoblade/Jaiden Animations/Mr. BeastAs annoying as existing on YouTube seems to be in this day and age—when you’re halted ever three to five minutes by a State Farm ad—I still come back to the platform regularly. I can’t help it. There are many different video platforms, but as agonizing as it is to notice the increasing number of ads or know how little your decisions…