Kendrick Lamar
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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’s new album reflects his ancestral, cultural and spiritual journey
‘Isibuko’ holds a mirror to the musician’s life
The vinyl countdown
Enhance the festive feeling by choosing from this carefully curated vinyl collection, courtesy of Tseliso Monaheng
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’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
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…
The new wave way: How SA’s now generation moves different
South Africa’s newest stars have turned to the internet and cultivated cult followings to launch themselves onto the global music scene
Black romance, no blackness
From the music to the plot, ‘The Photograph’ is a refreshing take on two people falling in love
#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
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
A soundtrack with its eye on the score
"Soundtracks are not scores. At best, they are marketing gimmicks with a pretence at a soul".
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.
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
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, Falling Upwards and the Black Christ of the Andes
The Lists are compiled by Friday editor Milisuthando Bongela and arts writer Kwanele Sosibo