Album review: Kendrick Lamar caps off magnificent year with ‘GNX’
There’s a song in the middle of Kendrick Lamar’s new album “GNX,” surprise-released Friday, in which he raps like Tupac Shakur. This isn’t a new…
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Back Tracks: Music criticism may not be necessary, but provides useful insights
Do we really need music criticism? It’s a strange question to pose in a music opinion column, but a fair one to present when social media have turned A…
Listen Up: Kendrick Lamar, M83 back up to old tricks
Since this is the last “Listen Up” before spring break, I thought I would include the best songs to play during the week off. I started researching the…
Album review: Kendrick has important leftover thoughts
Back in December 2014, Kendrick Lamar intensified the thirst for his sophomore album, “To Pimp a Butterfly,” the rapper’s magnum opus (thus far), w…
Kendrick Lamar vibes with Columbus in the rain
Compton rap artist Kendrick Lamar’s most recent album, “To Pimp a Butterfly,” completely contrasts the simplistic Top 40 sounds that dominate modern-da…
Opinion: Hip hop’s creativity reawakened over spring break
Drake has never been more prophetic than when he declared on his 2014 single, “0-100/The Catch-up,” that “We already got spring 2015 poppin’.” He was…