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Kendrick Lamar Releases Spotify Short Film, Watch ‘A Day In Accra, Ghana’
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Antony Jones / Getty Kendrick Lamar gave his fans a gift on his own birthday. He released a short film A Day In Accra, Ghana that details his recent trip to the motherland. As per 2 Dope Boyz Spotify has partnered with the Top Dawg Entertainment talent for a short documentary. The rapper visited Accra shortly after the release of his recent album Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers. Here we see K Dot reflect on some of the themes discussed on the project including his favorite line on “Father Time” where his longtime girlfriend Whitney Alford says “you really need to go to therapy.” Related Stories He discussed how he took it as a challenge but also an opportunity to empower his listeners to seek help as well. “We learned to hold all our shit in,”...
Kendrick Lamar Releases Spotify Short Film, Watch ‘A Day In Accra, Ghana’
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Antony Jones / Getty Kendrick Lamar gave his fans a gift on his own birthday. He released a short film A Day In Accra, Ghana that details his recent trip to the motherland. As per 2 Dope Boyz Spotify has partnered with the Top Dawg Entertainment talent for a short documentary. The rapper visited Accra shortly after the release of his recent album Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers. Here we see K Dot reflect on some of the themes discussed on the project including his favorite line on “Father Time” where his longtime girlfriend Whitney Alford says “you really need to go to therapy.” Related Stories He discussed how he took it as a challenge but also an opportunity to empower his listeners to seek help as well. “We learned to hold all our shit in,”...
Spotify To Premiere Mini-Doc Of Kendrick Lamar’s First Trip To Ghana
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Renell Medrano (@renellaice) / Renell Medrano (@renellaice) With Kendrick Lamar’s latest album, Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers still getting major burn from Hip-Hoppers across the board, this is the perfect time for Spotify to preview their mini-documentary which stars K. Dot on his first trip to Ghana and his experiences there. Kicking it with the locals, Kendrick admits that during his time there he’s lost track of the days and proudly states “This life sh*t is all about experience and everybody got their own different experience” before the clip fades out to the abyss of the internet. No title was given nor exact release date other than saying it is set to release next week, but best believe fans will want to see Kendrick Lamar interact with people ...
The 30 Best Albums of 2022 (So Far)
The following acts released quality albums in May 2022 alone: Radiohead off-shoot The Smile, Kendrick Lamar, Wilco, Arcade Fire, Sharon Van Etten, The Black Keys, Florence + the Machine, Harry Styles — we’ll stop there for space reasons. It’s been such a wild music year so far, only some of them made the following list. Maybe 2022 was just front-loaded and the final six months will be less eventful. (Judging by the release calendar, that’s probably a bad prediction.) Either way, we had trouble even narrowing this down to 30. Let’s meet back here at year’s end and see how things shake out. 30. Caracara – New Preoccupations Fans of classic 2000s emo — Say Anything, Dashboard Confessional, or Circa Survive, for example — are sure to find something to love in Caracara’s New Preoccupations (and...
Kendrick Lamar To Present ‘We Cry Together’ Short Film At LA’s Laemmle Royal Theater
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Theo Wargo / Getty Kendrick Lamar‘s Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers may or may not be 2022’s album of the year depending on who you ask, but there’s no denying that it has been one of the most talked-about Hip Hop albums of this year since it was released last month. And if you’ve heard all the chatter and controversy surrounding the album, then you likely know about one of the project’s most talked-about tracks—”We Cry Together.” It could easily be argued that never in the history of Hip Hop storytelling have we heard a toxic relationship—in all of its volatile and excessively profane nature—depicted so vividly. The song, which features up and coming rapper Taylour Paige, made headlines last week when it premiered at No. 16 on the Billboard Hot 100. (I...
The 30 Best Songs of 2022 (So Far)
It’s almost absurd how much good music — universally acclaimed, big-ticket, year-end contender music — came out in 2022’s first five months. It’s hard to imagine the next seven matching that pace. We’ve heard soul-bearing rap songs (Kendrick Lamar), future windows-down rock classics (Momma), loads of elite-level Thom Yorke (The Smile) — the list, literally, goes on. Below, we gathered our 30 favorite tracks of 2022 so far. (In this case, we decided songs from any 2022 albums were on the table.) Let’s meet back here at year’s end and see how things shake out. 30. All Get Out – “Feeling Well” The first single from All Get Out’s new album, Kodak, smartly swirls folk-rock, emo, and a dash of country into a potent cocktail of paranoia, self-doubt, and hesitant nostalgia. This South Carolin...
Lorde Calls Kendrick Lamar ‘The Most Popular and Influential Artist in Modern Music’
Lorde shared an update with her fans on Tuesday (May 24) and couldn’t help but gush over Kendrick Lamar‘s latest album, Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers. “I’m loving Kendrick,” she wrote in her email newsletter to fans. “I cannot get over the most popular and influential artist in modern music displaying a working nervous system, admitting mistakes, trying to process intergenerational trauma and prejudice. I love the way the album opens, the pace and heat of the first few songs, and later ‘Count Me Out,’ the build and strings in ‘Auntie Diaries’… special.” Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news The double LP — the rapper’s fifth full-length — bowed atop the Billboard 200 upon its May 13 release, notching the best first week of 2022 with 295,000 alum ...
Kendrick Lamar Floats Through “N95” Video
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: YouTube / pgLang Kendrick Lamar certainly got the Hip-Hop world praising, discussing and debating after his new album Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers dropped. On cue for the highly-anticipated album’s rollout, the Compton rapper drops a stunning visual for “N95” off the project. The song’s content is about stripping away everything and getting to the core, with plenty of one-liners that will be showing up on Instagram captions for a while, too. “Take off the weird-ass jewelry, I’m a take ten steps, then I’m taking off top five, take off them fabricated streams and them microwave memes, it’s a real world outside,” spits Kendrick. Related Stories From floating over the ocean, to kicking rhymes in a crucifix-filled room to running for his life from a ...
Kendrick Lamar Drops ‘N95’ Video
Leave it to Kendrick Lamar to drop a new music video on a Saturday. The rapper surprised fans with the visuals for “N95” — the first off his new album Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers. He co-directed the video with Dave Free, who also assisted in his “The Heart Part Five” video. [embedded content][embedded content] Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers marks the first album by Lamar in five years. He also announced a world tour in support of the album. Get more info here and check out a full list of tour dates below. Kendrick Lamar 2022 Big Steppers Tour Dates: Tue Jul 19 – Oklahoma City, OK – Paycom CenterThu Jul 21 – Austin, TX – Moody CenterFri Jul 22 – Houston, TX – Toyota CenterSat Jul 23 – Dallas, TX – American Airlines CenterSun Jul 24 – Miami, FL – Rolling LoudWed Jul 27 – T...
Kendrick Lamar Drops ‘Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers’ LP As Twitter Dives Into The Themes
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Wally Skalij / Getty Kendrick Lamar shook up the world last week with the surprise release of the single “The Heart Part 5” and its soul-stirring accompanying video. Now that his fifth album Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers is finally out in the world, folks on Twitter are chiming in with a number of varied thoughts on the project. Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers is a double album and will be the last Kendrick Lamar album released under the Top Dawg Entertainment label. Like other previous works from K-Dot, the album leans into a concept of duality, trauma, addiction, relationship woes, and the like all through the lens of Black America. The album doesn’t have the benefit of a big single to propel it to casual listeners; this is an album for true...
Kendrick Lamar Announces The Big Steppers Tour
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: pgLang / pgLang While Twitter debates the merits, and greatness, of Kendrick Lamar’s new album, Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers, business is moving along. The Compton rapper announced The Big Steppers Tour to support the new project. Source: Renell Medrano (@renellaice) / Renell Medrano (@renellaice) The tour has both national and international legs and will run through the summer, fall and winter with Baby Keem as the supporting act on all dates along with Tanna Leone on select dates. Sponsored by Amazon Music, Rotation and Cash App, the national tour kicks off July 19 in Oklahoma City, OK at Paycom Center and will hit cities like New York, New Orleans, Nashville, Oakland and Las Vegas before wrapping up with two nights in Los Angeles at the Crypto.com...
Kendrick Lamar Announces Big Steppers Tour Dates
Now that Kendrick Lamar’s first album in five years, Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers, is available for public consumption, the artist has announced that he’ll be hitting the road for a good chunk of 2022. Dubbed the Big Steppers tour, the trek will kick off in Oklahoma City on July 19 and hit arenas and festivals across the U.S., ending with a two-night stand at Los Angeles’ Crypto.com Arena (the arena formerly known as Staples Center). Lamar will then head to Europe and Australia, which will keep him busy through December. Lamar’s nephew, Baby Keem, will open all dates, while Tanna Leone will support at select shows. Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers includes guest appearances from Ghostface Killah, Portishead’s Beth Gibbons, Summer Walker, Kodak Black, Sampha, Taylour Paige and Keem. S...
