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  Sweetlife 2013 Lineup: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Phoenix, Kendrick Lamar, Solange, and More

  February 5, 2013 – Phoenix, Kendrick Lamar, Passion Pit, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Gary Clark Jr., Solange, and more are on the lineup for the fourth annual Sweetlife festival, set for May 11 at Maryland's Merriweather Post Pavilion.Also on the bill: Lindsey Sterling, Holy Ghost!, Youth Lagoon, Haerts, Robert DeLong, MS MR, Twenty One Pilots, and Shark Week. …
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  Hear Rick Ross' Ominous 'Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe' Freestyle

  January 29, 2013 – "Feeling real good right now," Rick Ross says before his freestyle over Kendrick Lamar's "Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe" beat (via Nah Right). That opening line suggests that the Bawse's rendition of the good kid, m.A.A.d city track probably predates that shooting incident/car accident that Ross was involved in yesterday morning, since while he managed to avoid the bullets, his vibe has no doubt been killed. …
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  Watch Kendrick Lamar Save 'SNL' From Insufferable Host Adam Levine

  January 27, 2013 – How little faith must've NBC had in company man Adam Levine as he stepped in to host Saturday Night Live for the first time this week (January 26). Not only did the network trot out Andy Samberg and, for whatever reason, Cameron Diaz to assist the Maroon 5 frontman in his opening monologue, sainted NBC veteran Jerry Seinfeld showed up as a mentor, too, urging the pectacular Levine to keep his damn shirt on. …
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  Governors Ball 2013 Lineup: Kanye West, Dinosaur Jr., Nas, Kendrick Lamar, Grizzly Bear

  January 22, 2013 – New York City's Governors Ball Music Festival will return this June for three days of music, featuring its most impressive lineup yet. As per an announcement released today (January 22), the concert will return to Randall's Island — that patch of land in the East River caught between Manhattan, Queens, and the Bronx — and is expanded this year to three days, from June 7 to 9. …
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  Ab-Soul and Kendrick Lamar Brave Post-SOPA Apocalypse in 'ILLuminate' Video

  January 16, 2013 – The overreaching ambition of the video concept for Ab-Soul's "ILLuminate" reflects the overreaching ambition of the boasts in the song, off of the Los Angeles rapper's 2012 Control System mixtape. …
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  How Free Culture Saved Hip-Hop in 2012

  January 4, 2013 – Back in June, when David Lowery, the guy from Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker, took on the so-called "Free Culture movement"— mostly in response to a 21-year-old intern at NPR admitting that she, like most 21-year-olds, got most of her music for free — I kept thinking, "Where does rap music fit into all of this?" It's no surprise that an aging-out rocker would not consider hip-hop in his missive, but Lowery also teaches class …
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  Kendrick Lamar Won't Kill the Vibe as 'SNL' Musical Guest

  January 3, 2013 – After jetting from Compton to Paris and back again in his "Backseat Freestyle" video, Kendrick Lamar lands finally in New York City as the musical guest on the January 26 episode of Saturday Night Live, NBC announced today. …
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  See Kendrick Lamar Claim the Eiffel Tower in 'Backseat Freestyle' Video

  January 3, 2013 – Arguably, a large part of Kendrick Lamar's undeniable charm is the fact that he isn't a shoo-in for presiding judge over, say, a wet T-shirt contest or a twerking competition. On his excellent good kid, m.A.A.d. …
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  Busta Rhymes and Q-Tip Crush on Janet Jackson for Kendrick Lamar Remix

  December 21, 2012 – On Kendrick Lamar's good kid, M.A.A.D. City (SPIN's No. 2 album of 2012), Drake collaboration "Poetic Justice" examines the allure of written communications. The use of a sample from Janet Jackson's 1993 janet. slow jam "Anytime, Anyplace," though, clearly makes the title an allusion to Jackson's starring movie role from the same year, in writer/director John Singleton's Poetic Justice. …
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  Stan by Me: Dido Nabs Kendrick Lamar for New Single 'Let Us Move On'

  December 14, 2012 – What has Dido been doing since releasing her meek, emotionally scarred third album, 2008's Safe Trip Home? Why, the smart thing, of course: biding her time until trip-hoppy production (read: post-dubstep) and Sade-style heartache (via Jessie Ware, Katy B, El Perro Del Mar) make a comeback. And also, quite possibly, for the right rapper to come along and give her a boost back into the mainstream. …
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