Style Intro for February 12, 2025 Dear Gossips, Kendrick Lamar’s halftime show at the Super Bowl is now the most-watched of all time. And that moment where he smiles devilishly at the camera, “Say, Drake”, continues to dominate the algorithm – a meme that will go on for a long, long time. I’m sure we’ By Lainey • Feb 12, 2025 09:21 am
Music MC’s MUSIC LOUNGE: The Power of Three Trios are powerful. Whether it’s established girl groups like TLC and Destiny’s Child (from the Michelle era of course), or collaborations between individual artists, music compliments a trio immaculately. In an age where very few girl groups cross into the mainstream, it’s always nice to see women By MC • Feb 11, 2025 02:35 pm
Amazingness Kendrick Lamar: A Halftime of Hate Before we get into Kendrick Lamar’s set at the Super Bowl last night, a word on Jay-Z and his involvement in the halftime show. The initial partnership between him and the NFL was for five years, valued at $25 million. That deal was renewed back in October but when By Lainey • Feb 10, 2025 01:19 pm
Award Season Campaigning Kendrick and Timmy Bob do a duet Whoever came up with this idea… chef’s kiss. It’s genius marketing on multiple levels. First of all, we’re heading into Super Bowl weekend, the most watched broadcast in North America every year and Kendrick Lamar is the halftime headliner. Kendrick is always viral, so between him and By Lainey • Feb 07, 2025 12:14 pm
Music Intro for February 3, 2025 Dear Gossips, Kendrick Lamar, on volume, was the Grammys biggest winner last night, sweeping all five categories in which he was nominated, including two of what’s considered to be the big four Grammys, Record of the Year and Song of the Year. The song, obviously, is “Not Like Us” By Lainey • Feb 03, 2025 08:59 am
Music Kendrick reflects on his culture and victory Just months after a very high-profile rap beef with Drake, Kendrick Lamar is cementing himself as a few things – a deeply reflective and vulnerable man, a musical and lyrical genius and of course, the true victor of the spat that saw the two releasing diss track after diss track, which By Stephanie • Oct 22, 2024 12:28 pm
Music Intro for September 9, 2024 Dear Gossips, The big news coming out of NFL weekend 1 is that the 2025 Super Bowl Halftime performer has been announced: Kendrick Lamar. For the last few years ago, Jay-Z has been overseeing the selection for the Halftime show. And this, by far, is his most political and potentially By Lainey • Sep 09, 2024 09:06 am
Music Intro for May 6, 2024 Dear Gossips, The Met Gala is tonight… but whatever anticipation for it that may have been building over the weekend was completely overshadowed by another gossip story. I actually didn’t remember the Met Gala until Sarah messaged me about it last night because most of our WhatsApp over the By Lainey • May 06, 2024 09:13 am
BFFs Intro for September 5, 2023 Dear Gossips, Every Beyoncé show is the show you want to be at, but especially if the Queen has decided that she is working on her birthday, well, that show comes with a little extra juice – and I don’t mean from B herself because we are grateful and appreciative By Lainey • Sep 05, 2023 09:11 am
BFFs The VIP at Taylor’s Party No one is saying what the occasion was but there was some kind of celebrity hang last night in New York at Electric Lady Studios and Taylor Swift was the main attraction. She’s always a big deal but she’s an even bigger heatscore these days, as we know, By Lainey • May 16, 2023 10:45 am
Lily Allen Intro for June 27, 2022 Dear Gossips, After a two year pause, Glastonbury happened this weekend with Kendrick Lamar headlining the final night of the festival performing a furiously powerful and provocative set that included tracks from his latest album Mr Morale & The Bigsteppers and now classics, “HUMBLE.” and of course “Alright” among them. By Lainey • Jun 27, 2022 10:21 am
Music Friday the 13th with Taylor Swift? This Friday is the 13th and 13 is Taylor Swift’s favourite number – which is just one of the reasons Taylor’s fans think that we’re just days away from a mega Taylor surprise drop: that she’ll release not one but TWO album re-records for Speak Now and By Lainey • May 10, 2022 10:55 am
Equality Issues Kendrick Lamar: “The Heart Part 5” On May 13th, Kendrick Lamar will release his first full-length studio album in five years, Mr Morale & The Big Steppers. Kendrick’s last album, DAMN., came out April 2017 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in music so, needless to say, anticipation for what we’re about to hear By Lainey • May 09, 2022 11:06 am
Music Intro for February 14, 2022 Dear Gossips, It was always going to be the Super Bowl of celebrities with the game happening in LA. And indeed, last night’s game was probably the most celebrity-heavy Super Bowl in years, if not decades. The halftime show had something to do with it too. The halftime show By Lainey • Feb 14, 2022 09:15 am
Music The only two Oscar songs The Oscar nominations happened on Tuesday and the Academy is now moving forward, after several weeks of controversy over hosting and presenter drama, trying to turn the story around as we get closer to the big show. Now another headline that might be problematic – Variety is reporting that “only two By Lainey • Jan 25, 2019 11:59 am
Music Pulitzer Kenny Pulitzer Prize winner Kendrick Lamar Duckworth is on the cover of the August issue of Vanity Fair. We are still in the early days of new editor-in-chief Radhika Jones’s tenure. You may remember Radhika from her fox-print tights and this episode of Show Your Work. In her editor’s By Kathleen • Jun 29, 2018 10:31 am
