A weird quirk of mine is that I often associate color with music. Depending on who I listen to, there is a color I think of when it comes to a specific artist. Purple for Kendrick Lamar, Red for Kanye West, Green for Tyler The Creator, and so forth. However, when it comes to this […]
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The Infatuation with Mustard and the way it’s marketed
For the last couple of months, we’ve all heard Kendrick Lamar’s thunderous chant of “mustard” on the hit song: TV Off. Heinz even used the music for their mustard commercial last month. How did the perfect Hot Dog condiment begin to flourish these previous couple of years? Formerly a Greco-Roman medicine, mustard is thought to […]
East Coast Hip Hop Needs to Be Unified
The West Coast Hip Hop scene has showcased a great number of unities, the East Coast however, is truly lacking. A reality that many hip hop connoisseurs are not ready to admit. Watching Kendrick Lamar’s run from Spring ’24 to the aftermath of Super Bowl LIX, has left me in wonderment. The fact that he […]
How the 2025 Super Bowl HalfTime Show Was More than Just a Drake Diss
Kendrick Lamar’s performance at the SUper Bowl LIX halftime show confused older generations, amused younger ones, and included deeper messages that go beyond dissing Canadian rapper Drake. While Lamar performed the song that blew up last year, “Not Like Us,” for dissing Drake and the allegations against him, Lama’s performance was a critique of cultural […]
Kendrick Lamar Pressured to Remove “Not Like Us” from Super Bowl Setlist
The NFL announced that Lamar would headline the Super Bowl 59 halftime show back in September after his major success in 2024. Now, Kendrick Lamar is being pressured to remove “Not Like Us” from his Super Bowl halftime show. 2024 was the year that escalated Drake and Kendrick Lamar’s feud. With Lamar’s track “Not Like Us” calling […]
Top 2025 Grammy Winner Predictions
The big categories for the 2025 Grammy Awards consist of Album, Record, Song, Producer and non-classical songwriter of the Year. There are lots of significant people running for these awards this year, so choosing a winner will be a difficult choice. Nominees include big names such as Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Kendrick Lamar, Sabrina Carpenter, and […]
Kendrick Lamar Releases New Single
A new single from Kendrick Lamar was released yesterday on the rapper’s social media. The rapper released the song on his Instagram before the start of the Video Music Awards. According to Variety, the song is alleged to be titled Watch the Party Die. Watch the Party Die song holds the same hard-hitting beats and […]
Kendrick Lamar: The Pulitzer Punisher in “Not Like Us” (Op-Ed)
Two months after the release of the chart topping “Not Like Us”, Kendrick Lamar released the music video on July 4th, which has now amassed over 34 million views. This is the last song that Kendrick put out in response to his beef with Canadian artist and rapper Drake. “Not Like Us” is widely praised […]
Drake’s response to Kendrick Lamar’s diss tracks is pathetic. (Op-Ed)
Kendrick Lamar released three stunning, excoriating diss tracks over the weekend that brought the truth to light; Drake has a daughter that he has kept secret from the world. It seems that when Drake gets into arguments with rappers, he spawns another child. He is never beating the deadbeat dad allegations, oh no. Since “The […]
Kendrick Lamar’s “euphoria” response to Drake’s diss track is explosive and excoriating. (Op-Ed)
Kendrick Lamar has finally responded to Drake’s diss, and I have never heard Lamar so violently angry in my life; as a long-time fan of Lamar, I am familiar with his entire discography. The six-minute track was dropped on Tuesday afternoon with no promotion or warning, and if I were Drake, I would be quaking […]
J. Cole calling “To Pimp a Butterfly” boring is a travesty. (Op-Ed)
Kendrick Lamar’s diss on the track “Like That” with Future and Metro Boomin stirred up controversy between “The Big Three” names in rap: Kendrick Lamar, Drake, and J. Cole. In response to Lamar separating himself from “The Big Three” as an artist with more credentials than either of the other two rappers, J. Cole has […]
Kendrick Lamar won a Pulitzer, Drake texts minors; the winner is clear. (Op-Ed)
Drake found himself in the center of an apparent feud last week with Pulitzer winner Kendrick Lamar. On Future and Metro Boomin’s new album, We Don’t Trust You: Kendrick Lamar took an apparent dig at him on “Like That,” rapping, “Motherf*** the big three, n****, it’s just big me.” The line is seemingly a reference to a J. Cole […]
