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Unprepared: The disproportionate attention paid to the battle between rap stars Kendrick Lamar (above) and Drake is symptomatic of a change of tone in America. Photo: Christopher Polk/Getty Images

Kendrick Lamar vs Drake: Beware of the false prophets

Kendrick Lamar’s win over Drake shows the resurgence of an illiberal racial mood in America

Sjava, returns to music street with a new album titled Isibuko (mirror). Photo: Supplied
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Sjava’s new album reflects his ancestral, cultural and spiritual journey

‘Isibuko’ holds a mirror to the musician’s life

Few can confidently ignore the culture reset that happened when Compton-born emcee Kendrick Lamar released his critically acclaimed and creatively ambitious concept album ‘good kid, m.A.A.d city’ a decade ago

The vinyl countdown

Enhance the festive feeling by choosing from this carefully curated vinyl collection, courtesy of Tseliso Monaheng

Introspective: It took Kendrick Lamar five years to release Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers

One album, two takes: Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers

Kendrick Lamar’s latest album drops down the charts and moves up our reviewers’ legendary list

Joshua Cohen. (Leonardo Cendamo/Getty Images)

Joshua Cohen’s ‘The Netanyahus’ wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction

The Pulitzer Prize awards grants another controversial award to a book that mixes both fiction and non-fiction

Anderson .Paak and Bruno Mars of music group Silk Sonic perform onstage during the 63rd Annual GRAMMY Awards broadcast on March 14, 2021. (Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)

The refreshing nostalgia of Silk Sonic

Silk Sonic’s adventurous nostalgia is not a testimony to older music being better but rather the artists offer a listening experience that is refreshing because it is so…

Love struck: Issa Rae is Mae in The Photograph, which is directed and written by Stella Meghie. (Sabrina Lantos/Universal Pictures)
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Black romance, no blackness

From the music to the plot, ‘The Photograph’ is a refreshing take on two people falling in love

Hip hop star Kendrick Lamar is nominated for best album for “To Pimp A Butterfly” and best rap performance.

#MeToo-era Pulitzers give Trump one on the nose

This year’s Pulitzer juries awarded prizes to works that highlight the notable pitfalls of Donald Trump’s presidency

Lamar’s album DAMN features artists like Rihanna and U2 and explores some of the themes of his highly-acclaimed 2015 album To Pimp A Butterfly.

Kendrick Lamar, the first rapper to win a Pulitzer

Kendrick Lamar has become the first non-classical, non-jazz artist to win the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for the music category

Lamar’s album DAMN features artists like Rihanna and U2 and explores some of the themes of his highly-acclaimed 2015 album To Pimp A Butterfly.

A soundtrack with its eye on the score

"Soundtracks are not scores. At best, they are marketing gimmicks with a pretence at a soul".

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Kendrick Lamar’s “All the Stars” video in appropriation scandal

A near-exact facsimile of Viktor’s work from her Constellations series appears in the Kendrick Lamar and Sza collaboration.

The Amadiba Crisis Committee has been fighting to prevent a mining project from going ahead in Xolobeni.

Into the heart of white suburbia and the fear of the black body

Maybe it’s being raised in racist enclaves. Whatever it is, white people still believe they are the rightful owners of South Africa

Times gone by: Dutch and English ships sought safe harbour in the Cape’s Table Bay

Poets reclaim Cape Town’s historical narrative

A jamboree of poets traverses the city, feels it’s pain and emerges to restore what was taken

On the lists week: DAMN

On the lists week: DAMN, Falling Upwards and ​the Black Christ of the Andes

The Lists are compiled by Friday editor Milisuthando Bongela and arts writer Kwanele Sosibo

Hip hop star Kendrick Lamar is nominated for best album for “To Pimp A Butterfly” and best rap performance.

The weekly pop sack: Walking into the obscure like

We, the people, do not run the world, nor do we run this country.

Lamar shut out as Swift, Sheeran, Mars win top Grammy awards

Pop artist Taylor Swift edged out rapper Kendrick Lamar to win the album of the year award for ‘1989’ – and make history.

Hip hop star Kendrick Lamar is nominated for best album for “To Pimp A Butterfly” and best rap performance.

Grammy awards 2016: Taylor Swift, Kendrick Lamar and the Weeknd lead nominations

This year’s shortlist has been announced, with seven nominations for the pop, rap and R&B stars.

Kendrick Lamar photographed while on his trip to South Africa last year with his high school sweetheart
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Entertainment round-up: Kendrick Lamar is engaged, SA’s rich kids get reality show

From the engagements of musicians FKA Twigs and Kendrick Lamar to BB King getting hospitalised, we round up this weekend’s entertainment news.

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Kendrick Lamar stirs up the rap on race

The hip-hopper attacks racism but is mauled in turn for saying black people don’t respect themselves.

Jo’burg crowd goes mad for Kendrick Lamar

The self-proclaimed King of New York, Kendrick Lamar, performed at Johannesburg Stadium on Saturday evening.