Tag: Kendrick Lamar

Kendrick Lamar secures seven Grammy nominations

K-Dot leads in the rap category nominations

The list of nominees for the 2025 Grammy Awards was released on Friday (November 8), and Kendrick Lamar is the most nominated artist in the rap category with seven nominations.

The notorious Drake diss track “Not Like Us” bagged five nominations which entail: Song of the Year, Best Rap Performance, Best Rap Song as well as Record of the Year and Best Music Video. Furthermore, there is also Future and Metro Boomin’s “Like That” which has Kendrick featuring him, nominated for Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Song.

November 18, 2024
Kendrick Lamar says he now sees ‘more expressive SZA’ that the one she knew back then

Dot is proud of SZA

Kendrick Lamar has a great deal of respect and admiration for his former labelmate SZA, who she describes as one of the most talented singers of the generation. The SOS hit-maker is featured on the December 2024 issue of British Vogue where K. Dot showered her with praises.

“There was always a question about something,” he explained. “[Today] I recognize a more expressive SZA. The shy shit is completely out the window – to a degree, at least. She has the answers to some of the things she was curious about and is willing to tell it all in the most disruptive yet beautiful compositions this generation has ever heard.”

November 18, 2024
Future, Metro Boomin, Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Like That’ appears in new lawsuit, but rappers not being sued

‘Like That’ has been mentioned in new legal filing

Future, Metro Boomin, and Kendrick Lamar have been mentioned in a lawsuit filed by late singer Barry White’s estate, thanks to their smash record “Like That,” but they are not listed as the parties being sued Billboard reported.

The Barry White Family Trust has taken legal action against the 1980s hip-hop group Rodney-O & Joe Cooley, after their song “Everlasting Bass,” which has been sampled in Future, Metro and Kendrick’s song “Like That.” Rodney-O and Cooley are mentioned in the credits of “Like That,” however, the lawsuit states that their track “Everlasting Bass” uses parts of song “I’m Gonna Love You Just a Little More Baby” that was done by Barry White in 1973.

The complaint attaches the label “infringing work” to the song “Like That,” however, its producers and artists are not included in the suit. The estate of White states, however, states that Future and everyone else involved is indemnified, and therefore their liability relating to any issues over the work “Like That” exists with Rodney-O & Joe Cooley.

Additionally, the lawsuit justifies the time, or rather inaction with regard to filing a suit against Rodney-O & Joe Cooley despite the fact that “Everlasting Bass” was recorded in the 1980s: “Since the Defendants’ song, Everlasting Bass, was released prior to the internet and was not widely distributed, the Barry White Trust was unaware of the song when it was first released.”

November 18, 2024
Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Humble’ earns him new accolade on YouTube

Kendrick’s ‘Humble’ hits new YouTube level

Kendrick Lamar’s “Humble” reaches a new height on YouTube as its official video clocks 1 billion views on the platform. The visuals were directed by Dave Meyers and Dave Free.

Released in March 2017 as the lead single from the album DAMN, the record debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and subsequently rose to No. 1.

November 18, 2024
Kendrick Lamar reportedly turned down headlining Coachella because he plans to go on tour in 2025

K-Dot & RiRi reject Coachella offer

Kendrick Lamar is reportedly planning to go on a stadium tour in 2025 and even opted out of headlining Coachella because of it. According to Bloomberg, after the two previous years’ difficulties with selling tickets, the festival was hoping to book Kendrick and Rihanna to be its headliners for 2025.

K-Dot, who headlined the festival in 2017, is said to have turned down the invitation due to preparations for his Super Bowl LIX halftime show in February and a stadium tour. The report further states that RiRi also rejected the offer because she “didn’t need the money or the exposure.”

November 18, 2024
Drake’s associate Top5 threatens to drive-by on Kendrick Lamar if he visits Toronto

Top5 threatens Dot

Top 5, who is an associate of Drake, has claimed that he would like to shoot Kendrick Lamar if the Compton rapper ever sets foot in Toronto.

Similar threats were made by the Canadian rapper during his appearance on Late Night With Liyah Mai, only moments after he was supported by Drake in order to clear a murder charge.

Directly addressing Kendrick, Top5 said “Tell that nigga to pull up to Toronto. Swiss cheese.” This refers to the image of getting shot or peppered with bullets as a wheel of cheese with holes in it.

Further he added, “I’ll get the info, throw on my black Nike tech, tell YG to get a driver, roll the window down, and get some fresh air”, indicating in a way that he would be planning a drive-by on the “Not Like Us” rapper.

November 18, 2024
Kendrick Lamar’s new ‘Mr. Morale’ pics emerge

Peep unseen K-Dot ‘Mr Morale’ photos

Recently-surfaced outtakes from Kendrick Lamar’s Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers photoshoot exhibit the musician with a firearm.

These images were displayed during an exhibition in New York that was also attended by the photographer who took the album cover, Renell Medrano. The unpublished pictures resemble closely the final release with the rapper in the center holding his kin.

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In one photo, a gun is aimed by the artist at his fiancée, Whitney Alford, and two kids, in another one, the same artist holds his son Enoch who is wearing a $3 million crown of thorns, the same one that he used to perform in during the 2022 Glastonbury festival.

November 18, 2024
Kendrick Lamar reportedly rejected offer to appear on Miles Davis movie

K-Dot was offered the role but turned it down

Kendrick Lamar was asked to make a cameo in Don Cheadle’s biopic Miles Ahead about musician Miles Davis and he rejected the offer. Don Cheadle spoke on the television show Way Up With Angela Yee on Tuesday (October 1) and talked about how he appeared in K.Dot’s 2017 music video titled ‘DNA’ and noted that some years back, he had previously asked Kendrick Lamar to play the character Junior in Miles Ahead.

“To talk about acting, when we shot [the ‘D.N.A.’] video, Kendrick was so with it. […] He stayed in character the whole video. […] He was really committed,” Cheadle recalled. “He was someone that I had thought about casting in my movie I did, Miles Ahead, and have him play the role of Junior.

“We talked about it for a long time and ultimately he said, ‘I don’t think I’m ready to do that. I’m kind of working on a project right now and I have to see that through and I also don’t wanna come in here halfway,’ and I was like, ‘No, I get it.’ And it was [his 2015 album] To Pimp A Butterfly and I’m like, ‘I think you made the right choice on that one!’”

November 18, 2024

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