Music Pulitzer Prize Winner Kendrick Lamar Kendrick Lamar Duckworth won a Pulitzer. KENDRICK LAMAR DUCKWORTH WON A PULITZER. The all caps are necessary. It’s a big f-cking deal. On Monday, it was announced that Kendrick’s album DAMN. has been awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for music. Kendrick’s win is historic not only because By Kathleen • Apr 18, 2018 02:59 pm
Music All the Kendrick and SZA 8 Days. We are 8 days away from the wide release of Black Panther. 8 DAYS. Every day, the Black Panther press tour blesses us with new content to obsess over. The other day it was Michael B. Jordan and Chadwick Boseman doing karaoke in Korea. Yesterday, it was Danai By Kathleen • Feb 08, 2018 11:09 am
Music Kendrick Lamar rumbles The 2018 Grammys were bookended with Kendrick Lamar moments. The show opening was, of course, another jaw-on-the-floor, iconic Kendrick Lamar performance that we’ll be dissecting for decades. The closing moment of the 2018 Grammy Awards will not be remembered as a Kendrick Lamar moment but I will forever remember By Kathleen • Jan 29, 2018 08:02 am
Music Black Panther: The Album Every year is the same. I make resolutions. I break them. As soon as all the balls have dropped and the midnight kisses are over, I swear I will wake up earlier, eat better, live better and generally become a better human being but by day 4 or 5 of By Kathleen • Jan 05, 2018 10:52 am
Music The Grammys, upgraded The Grammys, like the Oscars, have been criticised in the past for its archaic voting processes and its lack of representation. At the most recent Grammys, back in February, Adele’s 25 won Album Of The Year, the biggest award, over Beyoncé’s Lemonade – and even Adele was like…um… By Lainey • Nov 29, 2017 10:09 am
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: The Royal Engagement plus Kendrick Lamar and Margot Robbie Duana and I recorded this week’s episode of Show Your Work yesterday. While, at the time, we did not yet know what would happen today, our discussion points still apply – Prince Harry’s relationship with the media, the media workings around this kind of event, and what Harry and By Lainey • Nov 27, 2017 04:28 pm
Beyoncé Intro for September 15, 2017 Dear Gossips, I had an entirely different open planned for today. And then I woke up at 5am and saw how supported Rihanna was last night at her third annual Diamond Ball. Kendrick Lamar performed (in a great pair of well-tailored black pants). Dave Chappelle spoke. Jamie Foxx showed up. By Lainey • Sep 15, 2017 07:37 am
Music Kendrick so Lit The VMAs opened with Kendrick Lamar. For the first hour of the show, the literal flames in Kendrick’s performance were the only light in a sea of cringeworthy moments and secondhand embarrassment. Kendrick delivered. But was there any doubt that Kendrick would deliver? This is the guy who consistently By Kathleen • Aug 28, 2017 09:54 am
Top Reads Kendrick on Drake… and Team Taylor Swift Kendrick Lamar is undeniably the best rapper of his generation. You won’t find many hip-hop heads or music critics who would disagree with that statement. On this month’s cover of Rolling Stone, they call him the “greatest rapper alive.” Even after Jay’s 4:44 or considering Kanye’ By Kathleen • Aug 10, 2017 11:50 am
Music DAMN KENDRICK Kendrick Lamar released DAMN. on Good Friday. I didn’t listen to DAMN. until Saturday afternoon. I wasn’t busy. I was waiting. I wanted to savour it. You know the envy you feel towards someone who hasn’t watched your favourite TV series yet? When anyone tells me they By Kathleen • Apr 19, 2017 11:44 am
Music Intro for April 17, 2017 Dear Gossips, Of all the performances at Coachella this weekend, I was most interested in Kendrick Lamar’s. His new album, DAMN., was just released on Friday. The reviews are overwhelmingly positive. You know who came up in The New York Times review though? Here’s the paragraph: Taken in By Lainey • Apr 17, 2017 08:52 am
Music Kendrick's controversy & Kelly Rowland I’m so f-cking sick and tired of the Photoshop/ Show me somethin’ natural like afro on Richard Pryor/ Show me somethin’ natural like ass with some stretchmarks On Friday when I wrote about Kendrick Lamar’s Humble music video, I noted that these lyrics were going viral and gently By Kathleen • Apr 03, 2017 03:09 pm
Music Be humble Sit DOWN. It’s a phrase we use a lot here at LaineyGossip as a way to check celebrities who don’t know their place. Lindsay Lohan says she’s going to win an Oscar? Sit DOWN. Scott Eastwood brags about allegedly passing on playing Christian Grey? Scott Eastwood breathes? By Kathleen • Mar 31, 2017 10:50 am
Music Formation ends in love and Serena Beyoncé’s Formation tour ended on Friday in New Jersey. On Thursday, I wrote that if you had tickets I hate you and I’m jealous. Because on her final night, she performed 6 Inch for the first time …. #Beyonce performed #6Inch last night while hanging upside down #FORMATIONWorldTour #NewJersey By Lainey • Oct 11, 2016 11:34 am
Music Beyoncé & Kendrick’s opening Freedom Beyoncé was not announced to perform at the BET Awards last night. As we’ve seen, surprise is her thing. And the song she chose to surprise with to open the show was Freedom. If you’ve been to the Formation tour, you know this performance. It comes near the By Lainey • Jun 27, 2016 10:04 am
Music Ice Cube’s N.W.A Coachella Reunion Lemonade wasn’t the only musical event of the weekend. For the first time in almost 30 years, the four surviving members of N.W.A reunited to perform together at Coachella. Ice Cube, MC Ren, DJ Yella and yes, Dr. Dre took the stage during Cube’s set on By Kathleen • Apr 25, 2016 01:17 pm
