Kendrick Lamar

Culture

A Rapper for the Ketamine Era

Spencer Kornhaber

March 21, 2025

Culture

What Kendrick Lamar’s Halftime Show Said

Spencer Kornhaber

February 10, 2025

Culture

Music’s New Generation Is Here

Spencer Kornhaber

February 3, 2025

Culture

Kendrick Lamar Makes His Point Clearer

Spencer Kornhaber

November 26, 2024

Ideas

‘Not Like Us’

Thomas Chatterton Williams

May 19, 2024

Culture

It’s Not a Rap Beef. It’s a Cultural Reckoning.

Spencer Kornhaber

May 8, 2024

Culture

When You Regret Starting a Rap Beef

Spencer Kornhaber

April 10, 2024

Culture

The Impossible Ambition of Kendrick Lamar’s New Album

Spencer Kornhaber

May 18, 2022

Culture

The Hip-Hop Halftime Show Was an Overdue Triumph

Spencer Kornhaber

February 14, 2022

Culture

How the Pulitzers Chose Kendrick Lamar, According to a Juror

David A. Graham

April 21, 2018

Culture

Kendrick Lamar and the Shell Game of 'Respect'

Spencer Kornhaber

April 17, 2018

Culture

Kendrick Lamar and Female Cartoonists: The Week in Pop-Culture Writing

The Editors

April 22, 2017

Culture

Kendrick Lamar and the Sin of Swagger

Spencer Kornhaber

April 20, 2017

Culture

Kendrick Lamar Will Battle Until the Apocalypse

Spencer Kornhaber

March 24, 2017

Culture

Kendrick Lamar and Bay Leaves: The Week in Pop-Culture Writing

The Editors

March 12, 2016

Culture

Kendrick Lamar vs. Capitalism

Spencer Kornhaber

March 11, 2016

Culture

Could Kendrick Lamar Win Album of the Year at the Grammys?

Spencer Kornhaber

December 7, 2015

Music

Kendrick Lamar + Symphony Orchestra = Heavy Metal

Spencer Kornhaber

October 21, 2015

Culture

Kendrick Lamar Is Not a Hypocrite

Spencer Kornhaber

February 11, 2015

Culture

Kendrick Lamar's Seven MCs

Ta-Nehisi Coates

August 19, 2013

Culture

Kendrick Lamar Among the Wonks

Ta-Nehisi Coates

February 7, 2013

Culture

Kendrick Lamar's Forever War

Ta-Nehisi Coates

January 15, 2013