Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting … Read more
Mark Savage Music Correspondent Getty Images Drake, pictured holding two Billboard music awards, is the most-successful rapper of his generation Drake has been given the green light to access sensitive record company documents in his ongoing defamation case over Kendrick Lamar’s song Not Like Us. The star had asked for copies of Kendrick Lamar’s recording … Read more
AUSTIN, Texas — Any concerns that the recent legal wrangling involving star Blake Lively might overtake the world premiere of “Another Simple Favor” at SXSW were tucked away well before the film began on Friday. Lively bounded into the Paramount Theatre and greeted friends in the aisle and posed for pictures with fans, a security guard … Read more
Getty Images Drake in 2010, standing in front of a plane advertising his debut Thank Me Later, a sound his new record revisits “Gimme a hug, Gimme a hug!,” pleads Drake on one track from his new album, $ome $exy $ongs 4 U. After the month and year he’s had, perhaps it’s no surprise. As … Read more
Annabel Rackham Culture reporter Getty Images Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl half-time show was the most watched of all time, according to the NFL Nine months after it was originally released, Kendrick Lamar’s Not Like Us has earned the rapper his first number one single in the UK. The song’s popularity was boosted by Lamar’s record-breaking … Read more
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting … Read more
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting … Read more
The smile — mirthful, mischievous, utterly without mercy — was when you knew: Kendrick Lamar was enjoying this. As the headlining act of the halftime show at Sunday’s Super Bowl LIX, the 37-year-old Compton-born rapper spent the first 10 of his 13 minutes on the field of New Orleans’ Caesars Superdome pretending that he wasn’t … Read more
Standing atop a Buick GNX, rapper Kendrick Lamar warned, “The revolution ‘bout to be televised. You picked the right time, but the wrong guy.” Flipping Gil Scott-Heron’s 1971 poem about Black liberation, “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,” (and possibly taking aim at President Trump, who was in attendance), Lamar utilized his 13-minute Super Bowl … Read more
All those fan theories about Serena Williams’ Super Bowl LIX halftime show cameo appear to be wrong, according to the tennis legend herself. The retired athlete, who crip-walked during Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” verse during Sunday’s big game, took part in the show simply because the rapper — who like Williams hails from Compton … Read more
