Kendrick Lamar
After rocking the stage at Power 106’s Cali Christmas concert, Kendrick Lamar caught up with on-air personality Rikki Martinez backstage to discuss a bevy of topics. Of course, the two spoke on the rapper’s Grammy nominations.
Power 106 and Footaction know all too well that ’tis the season for Hip-Hop to be represented to the fullest. And for their Cali Christmas 2013 lineup, they’ve cut no corners in bringing out the biggest and baddest rap stars who shook up the game this year.
Kendrick Lamar repped the Hip-Hop set lovely with a performance of “Swimming Pools (Drank)” and “Poetic Justice” at the 2013 American Music Awards on Sunday (November 24) evening.
Nothing was the same for Kendrick Lamar after he quit trying to be a carbon copy of what he heard on the radio. He and veteran Hip-Hop journalist Shaheem Reid discussed the importance of this transformation during an interview that took place during this year’s Budweiser Made in America Festival.
Yesterday, TDE CEO Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith expressed disdain for what he perceived to be negative racial implications in GQ‘s cover story on Kendrick Lamar. Less than 24 hours later, the magazine’s EIC, Jim Nelson, has delivered a statement on gq.com defending his writer.
Kendrick Lamar‘s star continues to rise, as he joins an elite group of individuals selected to participate in GQ‘s annual Man Of the Year issue. His title would of course be “Rapper Of The Year” and this honor also comes with a spot on the magazine’s cover.
November 3rd, 2013 is now a benchmark in digital history. It wouldn’t make much sense for the first ever YouTube Music Awards to be featured on a cable television and the event is being streamed live instantly to your PC, MacBook, phone or tablet.
Halloween is a great time to use your imagination. You can be anything and anyone you want to be, free of judgement, no questions asked. You could say Hip-Hop is a lot like Halloween.
“The connection between basketball and rap is so deep.” That, ladies and gents was spoken by none other than the legendary Phil Jackson. There’s no need for us over at Hip-Hop Wired to dispute the validity of such a quote because we know that all to be too true, 25x over.
With TDE in the news for all the right reasons, the entire world is anticipating ever bit of news and tidbits they can get. They operate as a well-oiled machine with each member of the organization playing their part for totalitarian success.
Photographer Terry Richardson is racking up rapper appearances in front of his infamous white wall. Kendrick Lamar recently connected with the shutterbug to shoot photos for a Document magazine spot.
Today (October 22), marks the first anniversary of Kendrick Lamar‘s critically acclaimed debut good kid, m.A.A.d city.