Kendrick Lamar's "The Big Steppers Tour” becomes the highest grossing tour by a rapper as a headlining act in history grossing $110.9 million from 929,000 tickets sold in 73 shows.
Shit like this makes me appreciate artists like André 3000, Kendrick, Tyler, The Roots etc. even more, cause despite how much they reinvent themselves and experiment, they never disrespect rap in the process
Lil Yachty speaks on his "old" music in an interview with Billboard 🤔
“F*ck any of the albums I dropped before this one. [...] I was young and I didn’t really give a f*ck, so I did do things that may have led people to the assumptions that I was a mumble rapper or a SoundCloud
Kendrick’s mother named him after Eddie Kendricks from The Temptations
Pusha T wrote the McDonalds jingle
Nas was supposed to be on Reasonable Doubt but it didn’t happen
And Logic is biracial 😱
Five years ago, we unfortunately lost who I believe is the best musician to have ever lived. He may not be with us anymore, but his amazing music as well as his legacy still lives on. Rest in power to The Purple One himself.
#Prince
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@kendricklamar
's 'DAMN.' returns to the top 20 on this week's Billboard 200.
It earns its highest rank since the release of 'Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers' in 2022.
So Joe is saying that some of his lyricist rapper friends & industry ppl have heard Drake’s response & its lookin rough out here for Kendrick when it drops. Idk if I should take that with a grain of salt bc a lot of these individuals exposed themselves as Kendrick haters, so… 🤷♂️
Tyler, The Creator reveals he doesn’t want any of his music to come out posthumously:
"Do not continue anything in my name if I die. You got this on record.”
@thoughtfulbae
He did this interview in 2021 talking about Mortal Man, and I feel like he in a way kinda also described what Mr. Morale was going to be about
He really thinks he’s a pretentious music nerd cause he made some throwaway psychedelic pop rock album that Yves Tumor, The Voidz, and Tame Impala have already done way better…..
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@lilyachty
cites Pink Floyd’s 'Dark Side of the Moon' as an inspiration.
"I heard that album, and it altered my perspective on music...There’s endless ways to form a sonic wave. That album came out when there was no Auto-Tune..."
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