Thundercat Says He Worked “A Little Bit” On Kendrick Lamar’s Next Album

Before Bang Bang Con was all anyone could talk about, BTS leader RM hosted a YouTube Live session, amidst the quarantine period! As expected, the YouTube Live session kept shutting down in between because of influx by ARMY! However, Namjoon still had a candid chat with the fans, who he misses immensely, and who he constantly wants to stay in touch with virtually.

The boys of BTS never rest.

"We wanted to thank you for your patience – it's coming"

It seems Drake has a spot for fellow Canadian rapper PartyNextDoor on his upcoming album! The 33-year-old crashed an Instagram Livestream on April 16, popping up in PartyNextDoor’s comments section to extend the invitation. “Are you getting on my album orrrrrrrrr,” eagle-eyed fans noticed Drake had written in the comment stream.

"I probably will start thinking about my third album sooner rather than later"

'Lil Boat 3' is about to set sail

Kendrick Lamar’s final DAMN. track, “DUCKWORTH.,” is an elaborate piece of hip-hop storytelling built around a trio of diverse samples. In a new interview with NPR, producer 9th Wonder broke down each one and explained how he succeeded at interweaving three very different songs together.

Future has been a busy man so far this year, and he’s looking to kick things into high gear with his upcoming eighth album. He revealed in a new XXL interview that the project is titled Life is Good, the same name as his recent Drake collaboration.

On Sunday (April 5), the Academy of Country Music Awards were supposed to take place in Las Vegas. But due to the coronavirus, the celebratory event has been pushed to Sept 16. In its place, CBS aired a special at-home concert, ACM Presents: Our Country, hosted by Gayle King.

Harry Styles has been stuck in LA for 17 days now. The former One Direction singer was in Los Angeles when the Coronavirus crisis hit the US.

Grammy-winning singer-bassist Thundercat says that the saying “It Is What It Is” — which just so happens to be the title of his fourth album, out Friday — might actually help you cope with coronavirus anxiety.

The War and Treaty -- the husband-wife duo of Michael Trotter Jr. and Tanya Blount-Trotter -- have been "Hustlin'" for the better part of a decade now, since emerging from Albion, Mich.

Hit-Boy and Boi-1da clashed in an epic beat battle on Instagram Live last night. After Boi-1da shared a Drake and Roddy Ricch collaboration, Hit-Boy countered with an unreleased Big Sean and Nipsey Hussle track, in which the Detroit rapper downplays his long-rumored tensions with Kendrick Lamar.

The record will be out in 2021

Jessie Reyez’s new album, BEFORE LOVE CAME TO KILL US, has arrived, and while she keeps the guest features to a minimum, she does pay homage to some several big-name rappers on the project’s ninth track, “ROOF.” The Worth It and Bizness Boi-produced song features a prominent interpolation of Kendrick Lamar’s flow on ScHoolboy Q’s “Collard Greens.” In the same breath, she shouts out a trip of rap and R&B albums, too.

Everyone has been forced to pivot in light of the novel coronavirus spread, including Jimmy Fallon.

She says another Christine And The Queens collaboration could be on the cards

Despite festivals like SXSW and Coachella being canceled or postponed in the wake of concerns surrounding COVID-19, the 2020 Glastonbury Festival recently announced Kendrick Lamar as one of its headliner. The rapper joins Paul McCartney, Taylor Swift, Diana Ross, Burna Boy, FKA twigs, Thom Yorke and more on the festival's 50th-anniversary lineup.

Compton, Calif., native Sounwave, born Mark Spears, is an in-house producer at the record label Top Dawg Entertainment and has had a hand in every release from rapper Kendrick Lamar since his self-titled debut EP in 2009, including Black Panther: The Album (2018), DAMN. (2017) and To Pimp a Butterfly (2015).