Barack Obama knew it was bullshit. His acceptance speech for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize says as much, arguing “force may sometimes be necessary.” While his nomination had been controversial, premature ...

The turbocharged Buick GNX once outran Ferraris—and Kendrick Lamar’s revival has made it one of the most coveted muscle cars in America again. Kendrick Lamar’s GNX album boosted interest and value in ...

Kendrick Lamar did it again. The Grammy-winning rapper's new album, GNX, amassed an incredible 363 million streams on Spotify during its opening week, marking the biggest rap streaming week of 2024 ...

It’s appropriate that Kendrick Lamar named his new album after the 1987 Buick Grand National Experimental. Produced in limited quantities, it was never as ubiquitous as its predecessor, the Buick ...

Midway through his snarling Drake diss, “Not Like Us,” Kendrick Lamar issued a succinct, but forceful personal mission: “Sometimes you gotta pop out and show n—as.” It was both a plan of action and a ...

Kendrick Lamar is no stranger to success, but the release of his latest album, GNX, on Dec. 2, 2024, has taken his career to new heights. Dominating both the Billboard 200 and the Billboard Hot 100 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kendrick Lamar has consistently been known as one of the world's most prominent storytellers and a rooted artist in hip-hop's ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Kendrick Lamar dominates the Official Hip-Hop and R&B Albums chart ...

Per HITS Daily Double, nearly 290,000 of those are from streaming services and 33,000 from pure album sales. The massive number bests Tyler, The Creator’s Chromakopia opening number of roughly 296,000 ...

A few months ago, the Compton rapper Siete7x was up in the Bay Area shooting a music video. Around 4 a.m., he got a call from mutual friend of Kendrick Lamar’s who told Siete to drop whatever he was ...

Kendrick Lamar has never been just a rapper—he’s a storyteller, a critic, and a cultural architect. With his latest album, GNX, he caught just about everybody off guard. The MC, chock-full of ...

Los Angeles has a lot to celebrate. First, the Dodgers won the World Series. Then, Kendrick Lamar released a surprise new album, GNX, featuring many of the city’s rising underground rappers, including ...