The release of Beyoncé and Kendrick Lamar’s “America Has a Problem”, as a standalone single on 19 May 2023, came as a surprise because first of all, there was not an announcement beforehand. Secondly, Beyoncé hasn’t...
As illustrated most pointedly by the chorus of “Purple Hearts” and Ghostface’s verse, this is intended to be a love song as relayed, so to speak, on the behalf of the Most High. That is...
To date Kendrick Lamar is the only rapper in history to have won a Pulitzer Prize, and he is also recognized, as far as the mainstream goes, as being the most afrocentric amongst his...
For a conscious artist, the truth of the matter is that Kendrick can be confrontational. He occasionally touts his superiority over other, less-successful rappers and sometimes even gets into direct beef on song. Well in “Father Time”, he...
It can be said that this Kendrick Lamar’s “Mr. Morale”, at least initially, steers the listener in two different directions. On one hand, “Mr. Morale” is the type of conscious rap you would expect from Kendrick. And on...
