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Yesterday in the Twitter world, Top Dawg Entertainment rapper ScHoolboy Q hinted that he would possibly leak a new track from his upcoming album Oxymoron sometime today and well, Puffy definitely didn’t let us down. Check out the new track “Collard Greens” featuring labelmate and homeboy Kendrick Lamar. Be on the look out for the TDE clique on the good kid, M.A.A.D City Tour in a city near you, and ScHoolboy’s debut album Oxymoron coming soon. Take a listen to the THC and Gwen Bunn-produced track below. “Collard Greens” is available on
iTunes now.
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Prior to Jason Terry being powerbombed through the TD Garden floor by LeBron James, much of the discussion on Twitter yesterday centered around Kendrick Lamar’s “Bitch Don’t Kill My Vibe (Remix)” featuring some marginally successful rapper/mogul/father/husband/minority owner of a NBA franchise/Beyonce’s husband/President Obama’s BFF you may heard of – Jay-Z. Talks of Jay being outclassed by Kendrick and, on the contrary, destroying his appearance (in a good way) were all anyone felt like arguing debating for at least a good two hours. While I didn’t participate for a variety of reasons (a proposal due here at work in a few days), the conversation forced me to put my thinking (fitted) cap on. Who else would’ve sounded dope alongside Kendrick? (more…)

Now we all saw “A Short Film by Kendrick Lamar” on the album cover (or maybe you didn’t), but we had no clue that this would actually come to life. In a recent interview with GQ, Compton’s son and TDE artist Kendrick Lamar hinted at the possible release of his debut album, “good kid, m.A.A.d city” in a short film. For more info and details, hit the jump. (more…)

Compton’s son, Kendrick Lamar took the stage at the Samsung Galaxy Note II Release Party in Los Angeles last Thursday to perform the Hit-Boy produced track “Backseat Freestyle.” The song has become a crowd favorite off of K.Dot’s debut album, good kid, m.A.A.d city, released last Monday. Though the crowd is kinda dead, it definitely doesn’t take away from it being a dope performance.

All media outlets are showing major love to the good kid, Kendrick Lamar this week in honor of his debut album, good kid, m.A.A.d city. Rolling Stone Magazinetook the time to give a small profile of the Compton native to put all music connoisseurs on notice of K.Dot’s rise to stardom. For the profile and the video, hit the jump. (more…)

Kendrick Lamar is still making this week his very own as he continues to celebrate the debut of good kid, m.A.A.d. city and share the moments with his diehard fans. After an in-store signing at Union Squares Best Buy, Kendrick took the stage to perform ‘Money Trees‘ for the first time and even brought out Jay Rock to spit his golden verse. Check out the video of the performance after the jump.

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The hardcore fans of Kendrick Lamar came out to Best Buy in Compton to support their new hometown hero and while they were there Kendrick Lamar showed up to sign the copies as well as performing a few tracks off the album. Good Kid, m.A.A.d City in stores and online now

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Life+Times, Jay-Z‘s new blog, took the time to follow Kendrick Lamar as he prepped for the release of his debut album good kid, m.A.A.d city. Kendrick discusses the process and excitement leading up to the release, and stops to chop it up with NBA phenom Lebron James. To watch the video, click the jump. Don’t forget to cop good kid, m.A.A.d city in stores and on iTunes now. (more…)