The Los Angeles rapper returns with his (surprise) sixth album, itching to escape his Drake drama, but still benefiting from ...

As of early last week, Los Angeles rapper Kendrick Lamar had already had a productive year and a lot of momentum going into ...

GNX sees Lamar step into the dad role in a new way; not so much with the introspection about his own family as on his last ...

On Kendrick Lamar’s new album, GNX, a rapper who’s obsessed with excellence tries to entertain the masses.

When blues titan John Lee Hooker got his first guitar, his father, a farmer and part-time reverend, wouldn’t let him bring it through the front door. “My daddy called it the Devil,” Hooker recounted ...

Accordingly, “GNX” carries its sense of history more lightly than some of Lamar’s denser releases — though it is still an album in deep conversation with the past and present sounds of West Coast rap.

A Book About De La Soul” (Dey Street, $29.99). A combination of biography, critique and memoir, it argues that the band — ...

De La Soul have lashed out about a new “unauthorised” book written about them, stating that they are “exploring all of [their ...

Drake versus Kendrick may have been objectionable, even as it burst into the biggest rap battle in a generation, with Lamar’s “Not Like Us” becoming the first rap diss to earn a Grammy nomination for ...

Lamar was simply using Drake as a symbol to provoke a larger conversation about authenticity, accountability and manhood.

With his surprise-dropped “GNX,” Kendrick Lamar roars from zero to 60 faster than a turbocharged ’87 Buick, faster than you ...

It’s appropriate that Kendrick Lamar named his new album after the 1987 Buick Grand National Experimental. Produced in ...