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  Vampire Weekend, Kendrick Lamar, and Passion Pit Top Boston Calling's Fall 2013 Lineup

  May 28, 2013 – Boston Calling Music Festival just held its inaugural event this past weekend (May 25 to 26), but organizers have already detailed plans for a second installment of the two-day showcase. …
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  Kendrick Lamar Comes Not to Praise Molly Rap, But to Bury It

  May 24, 2013 – Kendrick Lamar has only the best reasons for wanting to kill so-called molly rap: because it's "corny" and its unthinking use "waters down" the language of hip-hop.At the end of Lamar's recent video for "Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe," from the rapper's Essential good kid, m.A.A.d city (our favorite rap album of 2012), the screen flashes with the words, "Death to Molly." It was an apparent reference to the powdered form of ecstasy compound  …
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  Hear Kendrick Lamar Slip Into Quadron's Breezy 'Better Off'

  May 23, 2013 – The ringing guitar chords that open Kendrick Lamar's "Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe" are lifted from the beginning of a song called "Tiden Flyver" by the group Boom Clap Bachelors. …
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  Hear Kendrick Lamar and Black Hippy Wink at Rapey Rozay in Latest 'U.O.E.N.O' Remix

  May 23, 2013 – The original buzz around Rocko's "U.O.E.N.O." was that it was going to be pushed to radio with new verses by Kendrick Lamar and Kanye West, a move supposed to up the song's wattage while also quietly wiping away the date rap lyric that got Rick Ross dropped from Reebok. Alas, that never came to fruition, and Rocko has instead steadily dropped a handful of remixes over the course of the last few months. …
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  Live-Stream Hangout Music Festival 2013 From the Comfort of Your Couch

  May 17, 2013 – SPIN named the 15 Must-See Acts at Hangout Music Fest 2013 — Stevie Wonder, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Kendrick Lamar, the Breeders, Public Enemy, and Best Coast all made the cut — and now, thanks to the miracle of the Internet, you can see a good chunk of the talent at the annual Alabama showcase from the comfort of your own home. MTV is live-streaming a number of the best sets all weekend. …
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  Greta Gerwig's Exceptionally Embarrassing Karaoke Favorite

  May 17, 2013 – According to Greta Gerwig, Frances Ha — the newly released film she stars in and cowrote with its director (and her boyfriend) Noah Baumbach — has a soundtrack that's "grand and romantic sounding." Which in this case apparently means pop-rock titans like Paul McCartney, David Bowie, and T. Rex. The music of her own life is more varied, though just as effervescent. …
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  Download Karma Kids' Liquefied Remix of Kendrick Lamar's 'Swimming Pools'

  May 15, 2013 – With his intoxicating remix of Kendrick Lamar's "Swimming Pools (Drank)," British teenager Karma Kid hits the mood — wrestling with the power of alcohol — right on the nose. His "4 AM Edit" screws Kendrick's vocals over a beat that swims in itself. …
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  Solange Adds Kendrick Lamar and the Letter 'S' to Pillowy 'Look Good With Trouble' Remix

  May 14, 2013 – Solange and Kendrick Lamar have teamed up on what's effectively a brand-new song, and the results are predictably intoxicating. On the adept-in-her-own-right Beyoncé sibling's excellent 2012 EP True, "Look Good With Trouble" is a roughly 90-second snippet of diaphanous R&B, closer to a sketch than an outright song. …
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  See Kendrick Lamar Eulogize Molly in 'Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe' Video

  May 13, 2013 – Kendrick Lamar throws a fantastic wake for someone/something named, ahem, Molly in the new video for "Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe." The good kid, m.A.A.d city highlight was part of what made the Compton MC's second full-length our favorite rap album of 2012, as it illustrates via narrative detail the effects that alcohol abuse can have on a family.Booze indeed comes into play in the clip, directed by the Little Homies and OG Mike Mihail,  …
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  Kendrick Lamar Is the Coolest High School Principal in Rhode Island

  May 13, 2013 – Students at Mount Pleasant High School in Providence, Rhode Island, enjoyed one of those experiences on Friday (May 10) that your high school probably thought was possible but never actually was. Thanks to winning the Get Schooled National Attendance Challenge, Kendrick Lamar acted as the school's principal for one glorious day, speaking to students and posing for photos. …
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