Rapper NF released his newest album, “HOPE,” on Feb. 16. Courtesy | Wikimedia Commons After years of releasing music centered around the dark thoughts clouding his mind with songs titled “Outcast,” “Let You Down,” and “Paralyzed,” NF stuns listeners with the first track on his forthcoming album “HOPE.” NF’s music video, “HOPE,” released Feb. 16...
A spectre is haunting American popular culture: the spectre of Kanye West. All the powers of Hollywood and the politically-correct have entered into an unholy alliance to exorcise this spectre, including the entertainment industry, Twitter, Mark Zuckerburg, the New York Times, the Democratic National Convention, and Taylor Swift. But they will not prevail over the...
Kendrick Lamar beat out a string quartet and a cantata to take the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for music on Monday. That’s an extra $15,000 and another notch in the Compton rapper’s belt for his Grammy-winning album “DAMN.” The Pulitzer Prize website described the rapper’s album as “a virtuosic song collection unified by its vernacular authenticity...
Rappers don’t often move thematically beyond money, reputation, and women. But Kendrick Lamar does more than rap. He even called himself a writer, rather than a rapper, during an interview on the Colbert Report because his music “is more storytelling than rhyming words together.” He paints pictures in the listener’s mind. He tells the stories...
On Good Friday, was anyone praying for Kendrick Lamar? The rapper himself questions it on his newest album, “DAMN.” The internet burst into flame emojis as the Lamar’s fourth album went online overnight on April 14, yanking fans awake for a 55-minute look into the prominent rapper’s consciousness. Rumors of a second album coming...