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Kendrick Lamar’s Concert Headliner Has K. Dot Fans Hyped
Legendary rapper Kendrick Lamar’s return to the stage is causing some surprising resistance. News broke that the Grammy-winning artist will be headlining the “Day N Vegas” festival in November 2021 and hip-hop fans are having mixed reactions to (kinda) having K. Dot back. Kendrick Lamar Has Hip-Hop Community Triggered The hip-hop superstar received a bittersweet […]
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Kendrick Lamar, Travis Scott, And Tyler The Creator Are The Headliners For Day N Vegas 2021
Festival season is all the way back. After Made In America revealed its rap-heavy lineup headlined by Justin Bieber and Lil Baby, Day N Vegas got in on the action, announcing its massive lineup just minutes later. Headlined by Kendrick Lamar, Travis Scott, and Tyler The Creator, Day N Vegas will return to Las Vegas Festival Grounds on November 12-14 with three days of new and rising stars building on the success of the first iteration of the festival in 2019.
On Friday, Kendrick Lamar is billed to play songs from Section.80 up to DAMN. (no Overly Dedicated?? I will FIGHT), with DaBaby, YG, Ari Lennox, and Polo G top-lining a lineup that includes Kendrick’s TDE compatriot Isaiah Rashad, Flatbush Zombies, D Smoke, IDK, Yung Baby Tate, and more. Then, on Saturday, Travis Scott leads a roster of Lil Baby, Doja Cat, Saweetie, and Baby Keem. Undercards on Saturday include Cordae, Joey Badass, Freddie Gibbs, BIA, Blxst, and Audrey Nuna. Sunday, Babyface Ray, Flo Milli, Rico Nasty, Snot, Kota The Friend, Earl Sweatshirt, and Griselda build up to the big-faced names: SZA, Lil Uzi Vert, Snoh Aalegra, and Don Toliver, with Tyler The Creator closing out the festival.
Tickets go on presale Friday, 6/18 at noon Pacific. Get more info at DayNVegas2021.com.
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Quavo + Ex-NBA Champ Kendrick Perkins Trade Big Shots
Atlanta rapper Quavo and former Boston Celtics champion Kendrick Perkins are meeting face-to-face to get big things off their chests. Following a few days of social media trolling, the Southern-bred stars took their problems with one another to a heated on-screen debate. Quavo + Ex-NBA Champ Kendrick Perkins Clash The drama ignited during an ESPN […]
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Polo G Wants To Work With J. Cole And Kendrick Lamar, But Has One Condition Before He Does
Ever since debuting with Die A Legend in 2019, Chicago rapper Polo G has been pretty intentional about stating his goals and following through on them — many times within the titles of the projects he’s released. For instance, after stating he’d “die a legend” on his first project, he followed up by calling himself The Goat in 2020. Now, he’s days away from dropping Hall Of Fame, and you can’t say the young rising star doesn’t aim high.
In a new feature in Complex about the upcoming album, Polo states another one of his goals — and the one caveat preventing him from pursuing it as aggressively as he normally would. He tells Harley Geffner that while he’d love to work with rappers like J. Cole and Kendrick Lamar in the future after being shouted out by Cole’s Dreamville partner Ibrahim Hamad, he wants “to get a little bit better lyrically in that style before I would jump on that type of song.”
Hall Of Fame will see him taking steps in that direction, sharing mic time with lyrical all-stars like Lil Wayne and Nicki Minaj, but as Geffner notes, he may not be as far off as he feels. Look no further than his recent LA Leakers freestyle, which impressed Rap Twitter over its use of DMX’s “Ruff Ryders’ Anthem,” and Polo’s verse in BET’s 2020 Hip-Hop Awards Cypher, where he stood toe-to-toe with hard-hitters like Chika, Jack Harlow, and Rapsody.
Hall Of Fame drops 6/11 via Columbia Records. Pre-save it here.
The Wrap Up: Kendrick Lamar’s Almost Back, Rihanna Turns Pages, Roddy Rich’s Return
We’re back with another jam-packed Weekly Wrap Up! We’re looking at the near return Kendrick Lamar, Rihanna turning pages, Roddy Ricch making a comeback and more! The anticipation is huge for the mighty return of Kendrick Lamar. It feels like decades since we last heard a full-length studio effort from K. Dot a.k.a. Kung Fu […]
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Game Gives Massive Kendrick Lamar New Music Update
West Coast rapper Game just gave every Top Dawg Entertainment fan a reason to jump for joy. The hip-hop veteran has announced big tunes gearing up to drop courtesy of elusive rap superstar Kendrick Lamar. Game Gives A Massive Kendrick Lamar Update New footage is circulating online showing Game keeping it a buck on new […]
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Nicki Minaj Reacts To A Theoretical Mount Rushmore Of 2010s Rap That She’s Not On: ‘Wow’
“The Mount Rushmore of [blank]” has become a common framework people like to use to establish who are the best or most important figures of a certain field. For example, The Rock once shared his list of people who would be on his personal Mount Rushmore of wrestling. Now there’s a Mount Rushmore of 2010s rap making the rounds, and Nicki Minaj (who was not included on it) has some thoughts… or rather, one concise but open-ended one.
This afternoon, the Twitter account for Spotify’s popular RapCaviar playlist shared a rendering of a 2010s rap Mount Rushmore, and the graphic features Drake, Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole, and one blank spot. The tweet asks, “Who takes the fourth spot on the Mount Rushmore of the 2010s?” Minaj saw that list and had a simple response, replying on Twitter, “Wow.”
Drizzy, K-Dot, Cole and ??? Who takes the fourth spot on the Mount Rushmore of the 2010s?
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— RapCaviar (@RapCaviar) May 27, 2021
Wow
— BEAM ME UP SCOTTY OUT NOW (@NICKIMINAJ) May 27, 2021
Of course, “wow” could mean a lot of things. Perhaps Minaj is upset that she wasn’t one of the initial three rappers chosen. Aside from her own exclusion, maybe she doesn’t agree with RapCaviar’s picks. Or, maybe seeing Drake, Lamar, and Cole all together gave her perspective on how great hip-hop was in the 2010s and she was responding to that with awe. Whatever the case, the image certainly got a reaction out of Minaj.
It’s not hard to make a case for Minaj to appear on this Mount Rushmore. Her four studio albums (all released in the 2010s) have all been certified Platinum at least once, her first two topped the Billboard 200 chart, and her most recent two achieved chart peaks at No. 2. During the decade, between her own songs and featured appearances, she had 16 top-10 singles, including top-3 highlights like “Super Bass” and “Anaconda.” She also racked up ten Grammy nominations during the 2010s and has been dubbed by many as the “queen of rap.”