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Kendrick Lamar has once again solidified his creative force with the surprise release of his newest album, GNX, this past Friday, November 22. The said project has been highly secretive until the time of its release, and it already has the world a stir in the music circles. Complementing this excitement even further, Lamar premiered […]
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With the surprise release of his new album, “GNX,” Kendrick Lamar delivered an early holiday gift to fans on Friday. With the Drake feud firmly behind him, it looks like the “Not Like Us” Grammy nominee is already picking his next crop of targets. On the track “Wacced Out Murals,” he has a very specific
Kendrick Lamar has consistently been known as one of the world’s most prominent storytellers and a rooted artist in hip-hop’s fertile history. GNX is an immersion into 90s hip-hop and R&B-the golden age-sampling and interpolated with classics, drawing his modern-day narratives into the genre’s truly iconic past. The album feels like a love letter to
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Kendrick Lamar is once again proving why he has remained one of hip-hop’s most powerful forces. The Compton rapper’s new single, “Squabble Up,” is projected to land at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, which would give Lamar his historic fifth #1 single and his third chart-topper of 2024. Should projections hold, “Squabble Up” will
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Shyne Barrow just can’t leave the news cycle these days.Not only has he been speaking up on his past relationship with Sean “Diddy” Combs, but also his past criticisms of other notable rap figures, such as Kendrick Lamar. Read more…
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Kendrick Lamar’s new album, GNX, stormed the music world by setting impressive streaming milestones on Spotify. The album earned a staggering 74 million streams globally in its first full day, November 23rd, after an equally remarkable 44.2 million streams in just its first seven hours on November 22nd. This nails down Kendrick’s position as one of
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Kendrick Lamar has solidified his position as a giant in the music industry with his newly released and highly anticipated album GNX. Though it also only debuted seven hours into the tracking period, GNX captured an impressive 44.2 million streams on its first day on Global Spotify-a figure that would have easily surpassed 100 million
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Kendrick Lamar has just dropped his new album, GNX, out of nowhere, and it is tearing through the music world. It is quite a different move by the Compton rapper, since this is his first release outside of his previous labels, Top Dawg Entertainment and Aftermath Entertainment. Titled after the Buick Grand National Experimental, GNX
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The Root 100 honoree Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson saw a monkey wrench thrown in his burgeoning film empire in Shreveport, La. The Louisiana House of Representatives decided to eliminate its $150 million tax incentive for TV and film production, eliminating much of the benefit that Fif hoped for when he established the… Read more…
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This has been a banner year for Black Excellence. Whether it’s politics, entertainment, science, or business, Black folks have dominated the culture. We’re celebrating all that we’ve achieved this year with the 2024 Root 100. There is no shortage of legends, pioneers, influencers and rising political stars to honor… Read more…
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