Some moments change music forever, and Kendrick Lamar created one of them. By breaking barriers that once kept hip-hop from ...

Today, Monday, April 14, marks the 8-year anniversary of Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN. so it's the perfect time to add the album to your physical collection. The album, Kendrick’s fourth studio effort, ...

Replete with biblical references, gangbanging, lilting samples and a tortured artist contemplating, critiquing, praising and chronicling, the album is born of a familiar formula that has made Kendrick ...

Since the Superbowl Kendrick Lamar’s stock in the world has risen, and he is the most talked-about rapper in the world currently. Already considered one of the best rappers in his generation, Kendrick ...

Jazmin Kylene is a Miami-bred writer and editor with a decade-long career that spans all editorial genres, though she has a particular passion for music journalism. Upon graduating Florida Atlantic ...

Now the best album of 2017. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "DNA.") KENDRICK LAMAR: (Rapping) I got, I got, I got, I got loyalty, got royalty inside my DNA. MARTIN: Kendrick Lamar's "DAMN." has been at the top of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Kendrick Lamar’s singles may be slipping, but all four of his ...