Nialler9 — The most essential tracks of the last week handpicked by the Nialler9 team. Subscribe to the weekly Spotify playlist (1.2k subscribers) or the daily playlist (4.9k subscribers). 1. Schoolboy Q, Kendrick Lamar, 2 Chainz and Saudi – ‘X’ “... more info

New York Times — Lina Iris Viktor alleges that the music video for “All the Stars” from the soundtrack to the Marvel film used her “Constellations” series of paintings without permission. more info

Stereogum — Q-Tip debuted an unreleased Kendrick Lamar collaboration called "Want U 2 Want" on his Beats 1 show Abstract Radio last night, MissInfo reports. "New Kendrick featuring Q-Tip coming up ... not really new, but whatever," Tip said before spinning the t... more info

USA Today Music — The rapper oversees the highly anticipated superhero soundtrack, which features an enviable guest roster including SZA, Future and Travis Scott.             more info

Stereogum — Both Black Panther and its soundtrack have been shaping up to be blockbusters. The movie's not out for another week, but as of tonight the album has arrived in full. Curated by Kendrick Lamar and his label head Anthony "Top Dawg" Tiffith, it featur... more info

Stereogum — Our first taste of the TDE-curated Black Panther soundtrack was "All The Stars," a collaboration between the label's two biggest stars, Kendrick Lamar and SZA. The song gets a video today from Dave Meyers -- who previously worked with Kendrick on "HU... more info

Chorus.fm — Kendrick Lamar and The Weeknd’s “Pray For Me,” from the Black Panther soundtrack, has been released. more info

New York Times — Hear the songs that caught our critics' attention this week from Thom Yorke, Girlpool, Jennifer Lopez and more. more info

Stereogum — Next week, we'll finally get to hear Black Panther: The Album , the all star Marvel-soundtrack compilation that Kendrick Lamar and his TDE label curated. We've already heard the Kendrick/SZA collab "All The Stars" and the Kendrick/Jay Rock/Future/Ja... more info

Nialler9 — February Kendrick Lamar @ The 3Arena Thursday February 7th Renowned American rapper and winner of five Grammy awards this year brings the tour of his fourth album Damn to Dublin. Support on the night comes from James Blake. Franz Ferdinand @ Th... more info