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Kendrick Lamar unexpectedly released his sixth studio album "GNX" on Friday. "GNX" features 12 new tracks, including "squabble up," which was teased in the music video for Lamar's hit diss track "Not Like Us." The album follows Lamar's 2022 album "Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers." After Lamar and Drake sent diss tracks back-and-forth to each other for months, Lamar appeared victorious with his smash hit "Not Like Us," which hit No. Lamar continued his tradition of creating "the heart" tracks, of which he had already made five installments.

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☆ Kendrick Lamar Surprise Releases a New Album, ‘GNX’
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-22 | by ( Ben Sisario | More About Ben Sisario | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Kendrick Lamar, the rapper laureate and one of the music world’s least predictable stars, released a surprise new album, “GNX,” on Friday. It is the sixth studio album by Lamar, 37, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2018 and, even before releasing the album, has been having a banner year. On the cover, Lamar slouches against the rear of the vehicle, and the video — with swelling strings and Lamar’s multi-tracked, rapid-fire vocals — shows Lamar with the car in an empty, monumental space. 6,” the latest in a series of tracks with similar titles, which has become a Lamar signature. It is also an implicit rejoinder against Drake, who had released a diss track in May called “The Heart Part 6.”

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Carpenter and Roan are favored for nominations in the best new artist category. Two of the industry's most prolific artists — Taylor Swift and Beyoncé — are expected to snag nominations this year again. She also could be nominated in the best country album category after she was shut out of the Country Music Awards this year. Post Malone, who released his first country album this year, could also get nods in the country music categories. Fans also expect nominations in the album of the year and pop genre categories for Charli XCX, whose album “Brat” inspired some of the biggest trends of the year.

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☆ How a former unhoused New Yorker helps combat food insecurity in his city
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-07 | by ( Alaa Elassar | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +17 min

New York City is experiencing its highest level of homelessness since the Great Depression, according to the non-profit group Coalition for the Homeless. Another New York non-profit, City Harvest, says nearly 1.3 million residents are food insecure, including 1 in 4 children, in America’s most populous city. Is there anyone on this train who’s hungry?” Thomas bellows from the center of the car. But with the number of unhoused and hungry people in New York City only growing, the task often feels daunting. The food is saving someone’s lifelong term, but for him I was helping him live, right there on the spot.”Henry Thomas distributes food in the New York City subway.

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☆ Grammy nominations preview: An album of the year race that’s impossible to predict and more
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-07 | by ( Alli Rosenbloom | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

More women have been represented in the album of the year category since it was expanded in 2019, going from 5 nominees to 8 or more. Her husband Jay-Z, reminded Grammy voters of this perceived oversight during last year’s ceremony. But the race for album of the year is just one part of what may make the 2025 Grammy Awards special. 1 on the Billboard 200, he is on track to, at the very least, earn multiple nominations on Friday. The Grammy nominations will be announced live on Friday at 10:45 a.m. EDT/7:45 a.m. PDT on the Recording Academy’s YouTube page.

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☆ Greatest player ever? After Shohei Ohtani’s first World Series title, there’s a ‘legitimate argument’
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-31 | by ( Rustin Dodd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +8 min

(I’m) extremely honored to be a part of this.”On the field, Ohtani’s first World Series had not gone quite to plan. “I think there’s a legitimate argument that he’s the greatest player to ever play the game,” Friedman said. The case is also historical: The World Series has been played for more than a century. And somewhere was Freddie Freeman, the World Series MVP and two-time champ. “Not just technically, but also my professionalism.”He was, at last, a World Series champion.

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☆ An artist used his $500 monthly basic income to build his hip hop career: 'It's not feasible to create art in a place of distress.'
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-13 | by ( Allie Kelly | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Tarli, 36, said cash payments helped him afford equipment for his hip hop career. Additionally, the cash payments helped him reach "flexibility and freedom" beyond affording basics. When Tarli received his first $500 check from the Springboard for the Arts guaranteed income pilot, he felt immediate relief. Springboard for the Arts' program gave 75 artists like Tarli monthly cash payments of $500 for 18 months, and was initially set to end in summer 2024. Cash payments helped him move toward that goal, he said.

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☆ South Park creator Matt Stone asks if Sam Altman does anything other than 'go on podcasts'
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-13 | by ( Kenneth Niemeyer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

South Park parodied OpenAI's ChatGPT last year. AdvertisementOpenAI CEO Sam Altman may join the ranks of celebrities pilloried by South Park. Stone and Trey Parker, co-creators of South Park, are also behind the AI entertainment startup Deep Voodoo. Deep Voodoo showed off a face-swapping tool on an acclaimed Kendrick Lamar video that replaced his face with those of O.J. South Park parodied OpenAI's ChatGPT in the March 2023 episode "Deep Learning."

Persons: Sam Altman, Matt Stone, Altman's, OpenAI's ChatGPT, —, Altman, Stone, Trey Parker, Kendrick Lamar, O.J, Kobe Bryant, OpenAI's, ChatGPT Organizations: Service, Bloomberg Locations: South Park, Simpson

☆ 'Piece by Piece' Pharrell Williams Biopic Reviews: What Critics Think
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-11 | by ( Ayomikun Adekaiyero | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Fans questioned why Pharrell Williams chose to tell his life story with Lego in "Piece by Piece." However, critics said the Lego animation makes the film more than a formulaic music biopic. "Piece by Piece" could be the next hit Lego movie. AdvertisementFans were confused when they learned that Pharrell Williams' biopic would be an animated Lego movie. In "Piece by Piece," which was released on Friday, Williams talks about his journey to becoming the producer of huge hits such as "Happy" and "Drop It Like It's Hot."

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☆ Lil Wayne says Super Bowl snubbed him for halftime show: ‘That broke me … it hurt a lot’
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-13 | by ( ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

Nearly a week after Kendrick Lamar was announced as the headliner of the Super Bowl Halftime show, New Orleans native Lil Wayne has admitted that not being chosen for the spot “broke me.”“That hurt, it hurt a lot,” he said in a video statement posted on Friday morning to Instagram. Almost immediately after Lamar, a Los Angeles native, was announced as the headliner for the 2025 Super Bowl Halftime show, uproar began online over him being chosen instead of Wayne. Complicating the situation further, Super Bowl entertainment is overseen by Jay-Z’s Roc Nation company, although the NFL and the city of New Orleans also played a role in the pick. Your words turned to arms and held me up when I tried to fall back.”“(Not being picked) hurt — it hurt a lot,” Wayne continues. “Kendrick Lamar is truly a once-in-a-generation artist and performer,” Jay said of Lamar in the Super Bowl Halftime announcement on Sunday.

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☆ Lil Wayne says it 'hurt' that Kendrick Lamar was picked to perform at the Super Bowl. Here's what to know about the controversy.
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-13 | by ( Callie Ahlgrim | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Read previewEarlier this week, Kendrick Lamar was confirmed as the headliner for the next Super Bowl halftime show. AdvertisementMany hip-hop fans had hoped that Lousiana native Lil Wayne would be the chosen headliner — a hope that Lil Wayne said he shared. Here's a breakdown of the controversy's key points and everything you need to know about the Lamar vs. Wayne debate. Lil Wayne, Nicki Minaj, and Drake at the 2017 Billboard Music Awards. LIL WAYNE!!!!!!!!!!

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Months after the beef between rappers Kendrick Lamar and Drake seemingly reached a conclusion, Lamar has dropped a new track. Lamar posted an untitled song to his Instagram Reels without a caption on Tuesday evening. Lamar similarly released one of his diss tracks against Drake, “6:16 in L.A.,” on Instagram only. Lamar was embroiled in a monthslong feud with Drake that produced nine diss tracks between the two rappers. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was one of the top songs of the summer, according to the outlet’s summer songs chart.

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MTV’s Video Music Awards are back to celebrate the best music videos of the year, and, if you can believe it, the network has now been at it for 40 years. After all, it was the 1984 MTV VMAs when Madonna wore her iconic wedding dress and performed “Like a Virgin” to open the show. And who could forget when Ye, then known as Kanye West, stole the microphone from Taylor Swift in 2009? But the big question of the evening will be whether Taylor Swift and Beyoncé are in attendance. If Swift wins three of her awards, she could overtake Beyoncé for the distinction of having won the most MTV VMAs ever.

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☆ How 9/11 Become Gen Z's Favorite Internet Meme, Joke
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-11 | by ( Scott Nover | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

On 9/11, the first meme dropped at 8:56 a.m. "That is a big fucking hole in the World Trade Center sirs!" 9/11 jokes, in other words, often have very little to do with 9/11. AdvertisementUnlike Domineau or those anonymous SomethingAwful posters, many people making and spreading 9/11 memes today are too young to remember 9/11, if they were alive at all. She says 9/11 memes have always been popular with her cohort. Domineau says it's only natural for young people to take 9/11 jokes to the next extreme.

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☆ Kendrick Lamar will headline Super Bowl halftime show
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-08 | by ( Rohan Nadkarni | Rohan Nadkarni Is A Sports Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +1 min

Rapper Kendrick Lamar will headline the Super Bowl halftime show in New Orleans, the NFL announced Sunday. Follow along for live coverage of Week 1Roc Nation and Jesse Collins, an Emmy-winning producer, will be co-executive producers of the Apple Music halftime show. “Kendrick Lamar is truly a once-in-a-generation artist and performer,” Roc Nation founder Jay-Z said in a statement. Super Bowl 59 will take place on Feb. 9. Lamar previously performed at the 2022 Super Bowl in Los Angeles alongside several other rappers and hip-hop stars in a West Coast-themed show.

Persons: Kendrick Lamar, ” Lamar, Lamar, Jesse Collins, “ Kendrick Lamar, Jay, Z, Drake Organizations: NFL, BET, Apple Music, Roc Nation, Morale Locations: New Orleans, City, Los Angeles, West Coast

☆ How 'The Perfect Couple' cast nailed the opening dance with the help of Taylor Swift's backup dancers
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-08 | by ( Eve Crosbie | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Netflix's "The Perfect Couple" shows the cast dancing flashmob-style in the opening credits. Speaking at a Q&A after the show's UK premiere, the cast explained how the scene came together. My dress is too tight, I can't dance,'" Bier, who previously directed Kidman on HBO's "The Undoing," said. AdvertisementThe scene was mapped out by Dua Lipa's choreographer of choice and featured some of Taylor Swift's backup dancersSusanne Bier practiced the dance with cast members. Kidman said that the cast also ended up having extra support in the form of professional backup dancers who had previously worked with Taylor Swift.

Persons: Nicole Kidman, —, Susanne Bier, Meghan Trainor's, Gail Berman, Jack Reynor, Bier, Reynor, Hilary Bronwyn Gayle, Kidman, Oscar, Nicole, Liev Schreiber, Kidman's, Schreiber, Eve Hewson, Amelia Sacks, Dua, Taylor, Charm, Kendrick Lamar, Selena Gomez, Glamour, Taylor Swift Organizations: Service, Business, Netflix, SAG, Netflix Dua Locations: Nantucket, London, Rosalía

☆ Haley Joel Osment Sees Contentment
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-13 | by ( Melena Ryzik | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Haley Joel Osment’s childhood memories are not like other people’s. A phalanx of Osment clones, made for that movie, are still floating around — he heard they might have ended up stockpiled in Peter Jackson’s trove of memorabilia in New Zealand. If the apocalypse happens, Osment jokes, that preteen version of him will survive. It is, in any case, the form in which many fans know him best — especially as the notably named Cole Sear, the teary-eyed center of “The Sixth Sense,” M. Night Shyamalan’s blockbuster supernatural thriller from August 1999. It was a phrase so potent that, 25 years after its arrival, it is a Kendrick Lamar lyric — on a Drake diss track, no less.

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☆ I went viral for dancing at a Kamala Harris rally. It's given me a platform to inform people about issues I'm passionate about, like Social Security.
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-10 | by ( John Towfighi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

And when I went viral, I said, "Okay, I need to do the most with this. There's something called survivor Social Security, and when you lose a parent, you're able to receive that benefit. Advertisement'We are stronger when we help each other'After I went viral, my congressman, Rep. Hank Johnson, came to my town. It's been great to talk about these issues and the work I've been doing for years and to have a larger platform. And that's when those social safety net programs, like Social Security, that neighborliness of our country, that joy, that communal care, comes in because we should help each other.

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☆ Can Harris Win Back Arab American Voters? The Door May Be Cracked Open.
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-03 | by ( Hamed Aleaziz | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

In Muna Jondy’s family, every topic is fair game on the WhatsApp thread. The 40-person chat, which includes Ms. Jondy’s brothers, sisters, nieces and nephews, discusses everything: the Drake and Kendrick Lamar rivalry, Ohio State-Michigan football superiority and, of course, politics. The discussion of President Biden’s re-election campaign was a common theme this year as the administration’s support for Israel in the war in Gaza alienated many Muslim and Arab American families, including the Jondys. But the mood shifted when Mr. Biden dropped out of the race and Vice President Kamala Harris became the presumptive Democratic nominee. The family took notice last week when Ms. Harris said she would not look away from images of dead children or be silent about the tragedies in Gaza.

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☆ 'Creativity and passion is something you can't teach': How to translate fandom skills to a full-time job
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-01 | by ( Jade Thomas | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Her fan content creation was just a hobby, until one Marvel TikTok edit landed her a job. "I was too scared to pursue film school or leave my job to try and get into editing," Graham tells CNBC Make It. Graham has secured other editing roles since then, but she's not the only person who's pivoted her fan-driven hobby into full-time work. Here are three pieces of advice for folks looking to transform their fan skills into professional assets. Highlight resultsDavonna Gilpin, 32, never thought the work she did as a fan could ever translate to a job.

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☆ Meet ‘X,’ the human voice behind Spotify’s AI DJ: ‘It’s a digitized version of me’
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-27 | by ( Cheyenne Devon | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

Xavier Jernigan, Spotify's head of cultural partnerships and the voice of the company's AI DJIf you think Spotify's AI DJ sounds more human than robot, there's a reason for that: It's modeled after an actual person, Xavier "X" Jernigan. Spotify rolled out its AI DJ product in the U.S. and Canada on February 22, 2023. So, they approached him to see if he would be interested in becoming a voice model for the AI DJ. Training the AI DJSpotify uses Sonantic, a dynamic text-to-speech AI voice platform the company acquired in 2022, and OpenAI technologies to power its AI DJ. Jernigan says being embraced globally as the voice of Spotify's AI DJ has been a humbling experience.

Persons: Xavier Jernigan, It's, Xavier, DJ X, Jernigan, Spotify's, Kendrick Lamar, Drake Organizations: Spotify, CNBC, DJ, Def Jam, Republic Records, Florida, Mechanical University, New York University Locations: U.S, Canada, New, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Asia, Latin America, Africa, London, Sydney

☆ Kendrick Lamar released a music video for his Drake diss track 'Not Like Us.' Here are all the moments that seem to reference their beef.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-05 | by ( Ayomikun Adekaiyero | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Kendrick Lamar has released a music video for his commercially successful Drake diss track, "Not Like Us." The song was originally released during his diss track war with Drake in May. Here are all the moments that seem to reference Kendrick's beef with Drake. AdvertisementKendrick Lamar seems to be mocking Drake again with his new music video for his diss track "Not Like Us." Neither rapper has released a new diss track since May 5, but Lamar is still fuelling the beef.

Persons: Kendrick Lamar, Drake, —, Lamar, J, Cole Organizations: Drake, Service, Metro, Business

☆ BET Awards 2024: See who won
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-30 | by ( Dan Heching | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —The BET Awards kicked off on Sunday night with an electric performance by the one and only Megan Thee Stallion. The event, hosted by Taraji P. Henson, celebrates the best in Black entertainment, across music, film, television and sports. Nicki Minaj follows closely with six nods, including album of the ear for “Pink Friday 2,” best female hip-hop artist two best collaboration nominations, one with Lil Uzi Vert on “Everybody” and another for “Barbie World” with Ice Spice and Aqua. Will Smith, Lauryn Hill and Childish Gambino are among the scheduled performers.. ET on Sunday on BET and BET.com.

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☆ Video: How viral song in Drake-Kendrick Lamar feud set off AI debate
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-29 | by ( Cnn Staff | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ AI company behind viral ‘BBL Drizzy’ fake Drake diss track gets sued
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-24 | by ( Samantha Murphy Kelly | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —A group of major record labels is suing two AI startups, alleging they wrongfully used popular artists’ work to train their systems to produce copyrighted music without their consent. Udio is the company behind “BBL Drizzy,” the AI-generated song that went viral last month during the Kendrick Lamar and Drake spat. Udio was founded last year by former Google DeepMind researchers to make it “easy for anyone to create emotionally resonant music in an instant,” according to the company. The platform, which allows users to create songs with only a few prompts, relies on OpenAI’s ChatGPT for lyrics and title development. Udio and Suno did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Persons: Warner Records –, Udio, Kendrick Lamar, Drake, Suno, Mitch Glazier, ”, Billie Eilish, Kacey Musgraves, J Balvin, Jon Bon Jovi, Jonas, Katy Perry, Miranda Lambert, CNN’s Jordan Valinsky Organizations: CNN, Recording Industry Association of America, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Records, Labs, BBL, Google, RIAA, Rights Alliance

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