Why Thundercat is thankful to Kendrick Lamar and Erykah Badu

Taylor Swift, Kendrick Lamar, Post Malone and more were set to perform

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.

After collaborating with reggaetón powerhouses like J Balvin, Ozuna and Bad Bunny to create avant-garde music videos for albums like Colores, Oasis and Nibiru, director Colin Tilley asks himself: "How come I didn't know about reggaetón before?"

This year would've been the 50th staging of the Danish festival

Danny Brown and Ab-Soul have worked together on popular tracks like “Terrorist Threats” and “Really Doe,” but it seems the latter song marked a turning point in their relationship. The Atrocity Exhibition posse cut features Ab-Soul, Kendrick Lamar, and Earl Sweatshirt, but Danny explained in a recent Twitch stream that Ab-Soul got upset after discovering that the track wasn’t just the two of them.

Even if you haven’t heard of David Kim, you’ve heard him. He’s a trusted engineer who’s worked with everyone from DJ Khaled to Ariana Grande to N.E.R.D, winning a Grammy for his work on Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly. In an exclusive, 20-minute masterclass for Digital FORT, Kim opens up about one of his proudest achievements, the sound behind the late Nipsey Hussle’s “Racks In The Middle,” guiding us through his process in depth along the way.

It’s been nearly three years since Kendrick Lamar’s last solo album, and while there’s still few details about its potential release, one of the rapper’s longtime collaborators recently revealed his own involvement in the recording process. In an interview with Japanese fashion company Neet Tokyo posted on YouTube on Friday, Thundercat said that he’s been in the studio with Kendrick.

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.

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.

Today (March 25) is Big Sean’s 32nd birthday, and, to celebrate, he’s revealed the title of his next album: Detroit 2. The record, which does not yet have a release date, will arrive via G.O.O.D. Music/Def Jam Recordings. Check out Sean’s new Detroit 2 trailer below.

The BBC has pledged to “keep the country entertained during these testing times” with a raft of programming including replacements for Glastonbury Festival and the Eurovision Song Contest.

There are three reasons to think that Lil Uzi Vert's Eternal Atake, which tops the Billboard 200 for the second straight week, could wind up with a Grammy nomination for album of the year. The first is its huge commercial success. As my colleague Keith Caulfield reported on Sunday, the album earned 247,000 e

Glastonbury, Britain's biggest music festival, will not take place as planned this summer due to the ongoing Coronavirus outbreak. The decision was announced on Wednesday ahead of the June event, which was to be headlined by Taylor Swift, Kendrick Lamar, and Paul McCartney.

Glastonbury has canceled its 2020 edition. It had been due to host 200,000 festival-goers this June, at the predicted peak of the UK’s coronavirus outbreak. Just last week, Kendrick Lamar was named as the third headliner, joining Paul McCartney and Taylor Swift; the festival has not announced whether it intends to book the same headliners for 2021.

UK festival Glastonbury has been cancelled amid the coronavirus outbreak.Taylor Swift, Paul McCartney and Kendrick Lamar were due to appear, alongside Diana Ross and Dua Lipa for the 2020 event in June. But, now hopes the popular Pyramid Stage will return for another installation have been dashed, which was due to take place in its usual setting of Worthy Farm in Somerset.

The U.K.’s Glastonbury music festival has been canceled in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak.