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Unless you’ve been sitting under a rock you pretty much know that festval season is now upon us. At this year’s annual Bonnaroo Music & Arts festival, hundreds of acts across a plethora of genres are gracing the stages of a 700-acre farm in Manchester, Tennessee – including West Coast rising star Kendrick Lamar and Detroit emcee Danny Brown. [...]

Over the last two years the profile’s of Californian based emcees Kendrick Lamar and SchoolBoy Q have risen ten fold via critically acclaimed bodies of work, scene stealing guest verses, live shows. As a result many of Hip Hop’s biggest stars have been queuing up to work with the Black Hippy duo, some of which, such as Dr. [...]

Continuing to spread the word of his incredibly dope critically acclaimed independent album Section.80 [Read album review], Kendrick Lamar and his Black Hippy cohort ScHoolBoy Q made their way down to Fort Lauderdale, Florida for a special headline gig at Revolution Live. Taking to the stage after Q, the emcee formally known as K.Dot performed tracks from his recently released album and his [...]

Earlier today we brought you footage of rising star Kendrick Lamar‘s show at New York’s famed SOBs that took place on Wednesday 31st August. Now through the power of the Interwebs, we are able to bring you footage of K.Dot, who was recently anointed as the leader of West Coast Hip Hop by both Snoop [...]

Over the weekend we brought you fan-uploaded YouTube footage of Kendrick Lamar‘s sold out show at the Music Box in Hollywood, California where Lamar’s every growing fanbase came out in support of the Compton native and his music. Now courtesy of the good folks at L.A based streetwear brand Dream Urban Clothing we are able to [...]

Yesterday we brought you footage of Kendrick Lamar‘s gig at the Music Box in Hollywood, California where many of the prominent West Coast Hip Hop artists such as Snoop Dogg, Warren G, Kurupt and Game, fellow Top Dawg Ent. artists Jay Rock and Schoolboy Q, as well as Mos Def amongst others came out on stage [...]

To say the least Kendrick Lamar‘s Section.80 is my favorite Hip Hop album, thus far, of 2011. I could sit here and type how I feel about this album and how the album make me feel but I’ll save that for another post – for now I’ll leave you with footage of K.Dot’s album signing [...]

As his recently released project Section.80 receives widespread adulation, Kendrick Lamar sat down with the good folks over at Out Da Box TV to speak on a range of topics regarding his music such as his lyrical approach, “The Heart Pt. 2″ [Watch K.Dot's My Favorite Verse episode] and his hometown, Compton. Out Da Box [...]

During a studio session with Compton proud emcee Kendrick Lamar and Top Dawg in-house producer Sounwave, superstar producer Pharrell Williams took some time out to prise K.Dot’s recently released LP, Section.80 [read SoulCulture's album review]. As Skateboard P tells it, “Hold Up” and “Rigamortus” are among the Grammy award winning producer’s favorite songs off the [...]

On July 1st, two of some of the West Coasts rising stars, Kendrick Lamar and Dom Kennedy performed their 2010 collaboration “She Needs Me Remix”, off K.Dot’s critically acclaimed project O(verly) D(edicated), live at the The Key Club in West Hollywood. Lamar, who turned up to support Dom Kennedy, received a warm reception from the [...]