Kendrick Lamar has consistently been known as one of the world’s most prominent storytellers and a rooted artist in hip-hop’s ...

There’s a song in the middle of Kendrick Lamar’s new album “GNX,” surprise-released Friday, in which he raps like Tupac Shakur. This isn’t a new comparison to make. Since the beginning of his career, ...

It may be album aimed at club or in-car entertainment than listening at home but that doesn’t stop it having a rich and ...

On Friday, Lamar popped out and showed up with a surprise album, “GNX,” a 12-track offering that follows a string of scathing ...

Lamar already won the year in a landslide. On his bristly new album, GNX, the rapper aims to change the state of play for ...

Sam Cooke joined the gospel group The Soul Stirrers. In 1956, the Leonard Bernstein (BURN’-styn) musical “Candide,” based on the story by Voltaire, opened on Broadway. In 1957, Buddy Holly and Sam ...

Perhaps it has something to do with his death – the Bronx rapper’s demise from a heart attack and respiratory failure, aged 28, was no less tragic than Biggie and Tupac Shakur. Perhaps it lacked the ...