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Tag: Kendrick Lamar

Kendrick Lamar on stage in July. His album To Pimp A Butterfly is nominated for the Album of the Year Grammy.

Kendrick Lamar And Taylor Swift Lead Grammy Nominations

Kendrick Lamar scored 11 nominations and Taylor Swift was nominated for seven awards, including album, song and record of the year. The Weeknd also received seven nominations.

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Kendrick Lamar

Six Pics: Kendrick Lamar At Lincoln Theatre

Fresh off his acclaimed Oct. 20 performance with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center, Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar returned…

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Now-inactive D.C. punk band Dudes made a song that's an accidental homage to a Kendrick Lamar single.

Premiere: Punk Band Dudes Accidentally Copies Kendrick Lamar With ‘My Vibe’

Warning: explicit lyrics. Francy Graham didn’t mean to create an homage to Kendrick Lamar with “My Vibe,” a previously unreleased…

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To Pimp a Butterfly follows two and a half years of anticipation stoked by Kendrick Lamar's breakthrough LP, good kid, m.A.A.d. city.

‘To Pimp A Butterfly’ Aspires To Be Music’s Great American Novel

Kendrick Lamar’s long-awaited new album dropped late Sunday night, nine days early. On it, the rapper wades into our current moment of peril around race, inequality and brutality.

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