USA Today Music — The New Jersey concert marked its 25th anniversary with sets from Kendrick Lamar and Lil Wayne, a battle-of-the-beats between Swizz Beatz and Timbaland and a homecoming of sorts from Meek Mill.             more info

Stereogum — The reliably hard and intense LA rapper Jay Rock, the most traditional and hardheaded member of the TDE crew, is getting ready to release his new album Redemption next week, and it's shaping up nicely. He's already shared the first single "Win," wh... more info

New York Times — The New York Philharmonic travels to the boroughs, Kendrick Lamar headlines a hip-hop festival and Alvin Ailey returns to Lincoln Center. more info

Stereogum — Director X is the rap and R&B music video auteur who's been responsible for the visuals to classic songs by Drake, Rihanna, Kendrick Lamar, Kanye West, Clipse, JAY-Z, Aaliyah, Usher, Destiny's Child, DMX, Ice Cube, and more. He's directed a few featu... more info

Detroit Free Press — Brian McCollum breaks down notable metro Detroit concerts, June 7-13             more info

NME — Meet Young Dylan. Kendrick Lamar A young rapper from the US has covered Kendrick Lamar‘s ‘Humble’ on ‘Ellen’. Nine year old Dylan Gilmer, who goes …Continue reading » The post Watch a 9-year-old rapper do an impressive cover of Ken... more info

TMZ — Dennis Graham most DEFINITELY wanted to cue up Kendrick Lamar's "Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe" when our photog asked him what it's like to be a grandfather ... cause Dennis wanted nothing to do with the question. We got Dennis outside of Poppy on… ... more info

TMZ — Kendrick Lamar is the toast of a Pulitzer Prize event where some of the most influential people in the world are pressing to rub elbows with him. The pride of Compton was at Pulitzer luncheon Wednesday at Columbia University. He's being honored… ... more info

NME — Poetic justice. Kendrick Lamar has picked up his 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Music in New York making him the first a non-jazz or …Continue reading » The post See Kendrick Lamar collect the Pulitzer Prize for music appeared first on NME. more info

Stereogum — Kendrick Lamar has a new nickname: Pulitzer Kenny. more info