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Check out some dope high-quality footage of Kendrick Lamar‘s performance at the Black Friday music festival, which took place this past Friday (23rd November) in Boca Raton, Florida. The stylishly shot clip captures the best moments of Kendrick’s performance, showing the Compton rapper in his element as he raps a selection of tracks from his [...]

In the latest instalment of the VEVO Lift series, Kendrick Lamar takes us down to the westside of Compton to give us a look at the neighbourhood where he was brought up. We are given an up close and personal look at the kitchen where his first independent album, Section.80, was written, and get to hear [...]

Pitchfork’s annual music festival may have taken place over three weeks ago now, but there’s still some worthwhile performances to catch up on. Having seen footage from his fellow Black Hippy ScHoolboy Q earlier, you can now digest a portion of hip-hop’s newest star (XXL official) Kendrick Lamar and his set, where an emotive live [...]

During a guest appearance on Sway Calloway’s Shade 45 show, Sway In The Morning, Black Hippy crew member Ab-Soul performed “Ab-Soul’s Outro” live on air. The track, which is off Kendrick Lamar‘s Section.80 album, is without doubt one of my favourite lyrical performances from Ab-Soul and he definitely didn’t disappoint when performing it live. [...]

In addition to his pair of incredible live shows at the Electric Ballroom (one of which SoulCulture covered – hit the jump to watch the recap) and freestyle and interview on BBC Radio 1Xtra with Tim Westwood, Kendrick Lamar also made a trip to Kiss FM during his time across the pond last week. On [...]

On Tuesday the 26th of June 2012, what started off as a 15 minute interview slot turned into one of the highlights of 2012 for us over here at SoulCulture HQ (or maybe it was just me, I’ll ask the rest of the team later), as we were invited to document my current favourite rapper, [...]

Black Hippy‘s in the house. Literally. For the latest installment of In My Room, MTV Hive and Yours Truly‘s innovative live performance series, Kendrick Lamar and ScHoolboy Q treat a couple dozen fans in Austin to a one-of-a-kind, few-song concert staged right inside an actual residence. Leave it to the creatives at MTV to come [...]

If there was a “most documented artist at SXSW” category, Kendrick Lamar would be leading it by a long mile. The abundance of phone camera footage is fine and dandy, but allow Camovement to present their take of events as they bring you K.Dot’s live performance of “Hol’ Up” with some superb shots and excellent [...]

For those who claim to be down with current rap, “TDE who?” isn’t a question you should be asking. While Kendrick Lamar and Jay Rock flew the Top Dawg Ent. flag high last year with their Section. 80 and Follow Me Home album releases, respectively, ScHoolboy Q and Ab-Soul are next up to the plate [...]

A few weeks back the good folks over at 2DopeBoyz caught up with one and the only Kendrick Lamar out in MIA (that’s Miami for those who don’t know) for a an exclusive interview. In the first part of the the sit down, the Top Dawg Ent. reppin’ emcee discusses the recent BET Cyphers at the 2011 [...]