Last month, we posted "His Pain," a truly gorgeous collaboration between old-school soul crooner BJ The Chicago Kid and scarily talented young polysyllabic rapper Kendrick Lamar. As it turns out, the…   Read Story »

The enigmatic, frighteningly talented young Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar, who has been absolutely wrecking shit lately, gave us an entirely context-free new song yesterday, and it's a good one.…   Read Story »

Well, here's something special: L.A. rap hope Kendrick Lamar teaming up with Midwestern soul singer BJ The Chicago Kid on a jazzy, regretful, pain-wracked song about the vagaries of fate. Anytime you…   Read Story »

The two highest-profile videos of the week were almost certainly Rihanna's "We Found Love" and Coldplay's "Paradise." I didn't put either video on this list. I didn't leave them out because they're…   Read Story »

"Rigamortis" is one of the standout songs on young, verbose L.A. rapper Kendrick Lamar's great Section.80 album. It's a blistering double-time technical workout over a floating early-'90s-style…   Read Story »

Unlike Lil Wayne in his brand-new "How To Love" video, the restless and inventive young L.A. rapper Kendrick Lamar doesn't attempt to cram a Lifetime movie's worth of plot points into his clip for…   Read Story »