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‘Lemonade’ is indeed a new Beyoncé album and it’s streaming now

As many people speculated, Beyoncé’s HBO special Lemonade is a new visual album from the artist. The special itself was part spoken word, part music video, and fully artistic and beautiful in a way only Beyoncé can capture. The album is currently streaming on TIDAL. The streaming service has the special that aired on television […]

MUST HEAR: Jay Rock Featuring Black Hippy – “Vice City”

There are only a handful of rap collectives who can say every member brings something unique and equally high quality to the table. Among them, Black Hippy is arguably the most successful of the bunch. From Kendrick Lamar and Schoolboy Q, to the continuing rise of Ab-Soul and Jay Rock, this group has all the […]

New (Old) Music: Kendrick Lamar & Lady Gaga – “PARTYNAUSEOUS”

In order to appreciate this post you need to first time travel back to 2012, before the vast majority of Americans knew the name Kendrick Lamar. With the release of good kid, mAAd city on the horizon, music writers from every corner of the globe are looking for original headlines about the new king of […]

Taylor Swift Debuts Star-Studded Music Video For “Bad Blood”

It has finally arrived. After a little over a week of social media teasers for her new “Bad Blood” music video, pop sensation-turned-warrior Taylor Swift (who, in this, plays Catastrophe) has finally debuted the much-anticipated, star-studded, four-minute production. Premiered at the Billboard Music Awards earlier tonight, the high-energy, action-packed video directed by Joseph Kahn features a modified […]

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UTG LIST: The 8 Most Out-Of-This-World Tech N9ne Collaborations

Tech N9ne dropped his prolific and genre-pushing new LP, Special Effects, yesterday — proving this tenured rapper’s best work is still ahead of him. The record is frantic and transparent on tracks like “Aw Yeah? (Intervention),” belligerent and obscure on songs like “Hood Go Crazy,” and downright strange on songs like “Roadkill.” One thing the […]

Kendrick Lamar Shares “King Kunta” Music Video

Less than a month after surprising the world with To Pimp A Butterfly, Compton native Kendrick Lamar is taking fans on a tour of his city with “King Kunta.” This isn’t your typical music video, and there are a number of reasons for that. The first, which you would only know if you were in […]

Summerfest Unveils Monstrous 2015 Lineup

Summerfest, a.k.a. America’s largest music festival, is set to return to Milwaukee’s Henry Maier Festival Park this coming summer, and earlier today, “The Big Gig” unveiled a monster lineup that features over 90 diverse headlining acts. Though more artists will likely be added to the bill, presently it seems that Kendrick Lamar, Kings of Leon, Zac […]

Outside Lands Announces 2015 Lineup; Elton John, Mumford & Sons and The Black Keys To Headline

San Francisco’s premier annual music, food and arts festival, Outside Lands, will be returning for its eighth consecutive year from August 7-9 at the historic and always beautiful Golden Gate Park. This year’s lineup has been revealed and it’s a doozy, as per usual. Apart from all the endlessly delicious foods, beers and wines, Outside […]

Kendrick Lamar Releases ‘To Pimp A Butterly’ A Week Early

It has only been about a week since Grammy award-winning recording artist Kendrick Lamar dropped hints as to when he was putting out his follow-up to the well-received Good Kid, m.A.A.d. city from 2012. Originally scheduled to be released next week, March 23, the sixteen-track effort, entitled To Pimp A Butterfly, became available digitally yesterday, […]

Kendrick Lamar Reveals Cover Art for New Album, ‘To Pimp A Butterfly’

Kendrick Lamar has shared the cover art for his highly anticipated new album, which will be titled To Pimp A Butterfly, presumably in reference to Harper Lee’s iconic novel, To Kill A Mockingbird. Check out the politically charged artwork by following the jump below, and let us know what you think in the replies. A […]

Kendrick Lamar Unveils New Album Release Date

With the last quarter of this year marking three years since dropping the Billboard-charting sophomore album, Good Kid, m.A.A.d city, fans having been growing more and more curious as to when Kendrick Lamar will reveal his follow-up. His first surprise single entitled “I” was released in November with no other information whatsoever accompanying it. This was then […]

Kendrick Lamar Returns To Glory With “The Blacker The Berry”

A day after adding two Grammy awards to his growing collection of accolades, Compton native Kendrick Lamar has shared a new single titled “The Blacker The Berry.” Going in hard over production from the iconic Boi-1da, Kendrick Lamar uses “The Blacker The Berry” to remind everyone why the good kid from mAAd city has been […]