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Kendrick Lamar’s The Big Steppers Tour is now the highest-grossing tour in hip-hop history.According to Touring Data, Kendrick’s nationwide trek has earned $110.9 million in revenue from 929,000 tickets sold across 73 shows. Big Steppers gives Kendrick the most lucrative tour ever by a rapper as a headlining act, surpassing Drake’s 2018 Aubrey & the Three Migos Tour, which pulled down $79 million in 2018 from a total of 678,410 tickets sold across 43 dates.Rounding out the top five highest-grossing tours are Drake and…

“I do this for my culture,” Kendrick spits in the second verse of “The Heart Part 5.”Since 2010, the Compton rapper has periodically released these slices of his heart in song form. Ruminations of a Gemini. Tightly packed cultural reflections. Raw models of his lyrical ability. At 23, that meant a formal introduction. “I’m free, finally I can say I’m me,” he raps on “The Heart Part 1.” Then, he continues, “J. Cole runnin’ late/If he don’t show up, think I can take his place/Ladies start laughing… No pun intended, I ain’t…

Kendrick Lamar has shared the video for “Count Me Out.”The visual for the Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers album cut features Oscar-winner Helen Mirren as the rapper’s therapist, with the two in session. She asks him about an interaction he had with a woman in a parking lot, where the woman accused Lamar of stealing her parking spot. Kendrick makes a joke and the two have a laugh about the incident before the therapist digs deeper, asking him why he texted her “I feel like I’m fallen” at 2 a.m.The Dave Free and…

Kendrick Lamar’s 2012 album, Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City has unlocked a new achievement.This week, the project celebrated its 10th year anniversary, having spent every single year on the Billboard 200 album chart. According to Chart Data, “It’s the first hip-hop studio album in history to reach this milestone.”That’s a total of 520 weeks on the Billboard 200. On Nov. 12, 2012, the album peaked at No. 2, just a few weeks after its release. Lamar’s subsequent albums, To Pimp a Butterfly and Damn. have also spent weeks on that…

Kendrick Lamar is returning to Saturday Night Live after a bit of a hiatus.Kendrick first served as a musical guest in 2013 when Adam Levine hosted. He performed his late-night staple “Swimming Pools” (Drank) and the Janet Jackson-sampling “Poetic Justice.” The following year, K. Dot delivered an SNL performance for the ages, giving a scorching rendition of “i” and joining forces with Jay Rock for “Pay for It.” He appeared as a cameo in 2014 for Imagine Dragons’ “Radioactive” performance, and later in 2018 during Anderson…

When Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers, Kendrick Lamar’s fifth studio album, was released on May 13, one of the album’s standout tracks quickly became “We Cry Together,” as much for its raw subject matter as its slightly irregular format. (The song sounds more like a radio play or rap battle than it does a traditional hip-hop offering.) Taylour Paige (Zola, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom) assumes the role of Lamar’s star-crossed lover — his trigger and his muse — and today the hyperreal song has come to life…

Charm La’Donna is one of the most accomplished choreographers in the game. In 2022 alone, La’Donna, who is the protégé of choreographer Fatima Robinson (Michael Jackson, Aaliyah), has led choreography for the tours of Kendrick Lamar, Dua Lipa, The Weeknd, Lil Baby and Chris Brown’s, to name a few. Three of those tours are currently running at the same time. But she’s far from new to this. La’Donna has also worked with stars like Selena Gomez, Meghan Trainor, Britney Spears, Pharrell, Anderson .Paak, and Ella Mai, and…

During the five-year wait for Kendrick Lamar’s new album, there was a lot of speculation about who he might collaborate with. Would he finally reunite with J. Cole or Drake? Maybe he’d spar with a newer star like Lil Baby?Not quite. The two people who appear on Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers the most (besides Kendrick himself) are Kodak Black and Eckhart Tolle. Kodak’s controversial appearance on three songs has been widely discussed since the album dropped, but the story behind Tolle’s involvement has remained a…

“I love you Dallas,” Kendrick Lamar implored mid-concert on Saturday night, entrenching an intimate connection with his fans, from the sterility of a plastic quarantine cube. Clips of Kendrick performing inside a giant hazmat box during The Big Steppers Tour have been making the rounds on social media, which left me unsure about what to expect heading into American Airlines Arena in Dallas. Would he perform in the cube for the whole show? Would the plastic box be the centerpiece of the set design, like Tyler, The…

Kendrick Lamar, whose headlining Glastonbury set included a powerful statement in support of women’s rights, wore a custom titanium and pavé diamond crown from Tiffany & Co. for the performance.The piece was made possible by way of 10 months of design work, with Tiffany having since confirmed that four of its most skilled artisans worked on what became the final product. In a statement shared Monday, Alexandre Arnault—who serves as Executive VP of Product and Communication at Tiffany—said the team was “proud and…