Brooklyn Vegan — Sunday (6/7) was the annual Hot 97 Summer Jam concert, this year held at NJ's MetLife Stadium featuring Kendrick Lamar, Big Sean, Fabolous, Meek Mill, Ty Dolla $ign and more. While the actual show inside went off without incident,... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photo: Kendrick Lamar at Sweetlife Fest last week (more by Mmi Hong) You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight's shows, but here are some highlights... Governors Ball It's the final day of annual NYC festival... more info

Stereogum — L.A. rap bruiser Jay Rock is a member of the Black Hippy crew with Kendrick Lamar, and he was the only crew member who got a guest verse on Kendrick’s album Good Kid, m.A.A.d City. (On this year’s To Pimp A Butterfly, nobody from the crew was inv... more info

Time — Of the many highlights off Kendrick Lamar’s debut studio album good kid, m.A.A.d city, he and Jay Rock’s cut “Money Trees” gave us one of the best hooks of 2012 (forever thankful for “It go Halle Berry, or hallelujah”). Also, Rock’s cha... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Mimi Hong The Weeknd / Vic Mensa / crowd Sweetlife Festival went down this past weekend at Columbia, MD's Merriweather Post Pavillion. We already posted day 1 pictures of Billy Idol, Kendrick Lamar and more. Now we've got... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Mimi Hong Kendrick Lamar "Billy Idol is going to be on this stage," Mikaiah [of The Bots] told the crowd during their set. Adding, "Maybe he'll say hi to me backstage." And while it never actually played out... more info

Stereogum — Kendrick Lamar played Sweetlife Festival this weekend — sponsored by the company that gave the rapper his very own salad — and brought up a fan from the audience to rap along with him to “m.A.A.d. City.” Billboard reports that he looked aroun... more info

Stereogum — In Kendrick Lamar’s last video, the great “King Kunta” clip, Lamar rapped from the rooftop of a closed-down Compton swap meet. He’ll do that one better in his new video for “Alright,” the Pharrell collaboration from his new album To Pimp ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Debi Del Grande Future Islands / Run the Jewels / Tame Impala / Courtney Barnett / Kendrick Lamar Backed by a four-piece band, [Kendrick Lamar] bent the crowd to his will with roaring energy. He roamed the stage... more info

Stereogum — Full-blown festival season is fast-approaching, and we’ve already seen artist portraits from Shaky Knees and Sasquatch! and heard Tom’s stories from Coachella. Bonnaroo will go down in Tennessee starting on 6/11, and this year’s lineup is overf... more info