Kendrick Lamar this year

[FloorFiller]

i'm sure this has probably been mentioned elsewhere but i can't find it

what are people's thoughts of the new song? i like it... although find it a tad heavy handed, lyrics wise. couldn't be more different to 'i' (which i'm starting to think will be left off the album and used as a bonus track)

Edited February 10, 2015 by FloorFiller

[Winslow Leach]

i'm sure this has probably been mentioned elsewhere but i can't find it

what are people's thoughts of the new song? i like it... although find it a tad heavy handed, lyrics wise. couldn't be more different to 'i' (which i'm starting to think will be left off the album and used as a bonus track)

Surprisingly, I haven't seen it mentioned all day. I was just about to post the video in the 2015 thread actually. I love it, I don't think the heavy handedness is a problem at all. If anything, I like how furious and in your face it is, he could so easily have taken all the edges off his music.

[Gucci Piggy]

The lyrics are heavy handed, but they go hand in hand with the book of the same title. Wonder if this was a conscious move?

[trainwreck]

Subbing R&L. I wouldn't know what to take from that re: a potential slot at Glasto....anyone?

At least he's not a UK exclusive to Wireless like some of us feared.

[Rose-Colored Boy]

Subbing R&L. I wouldn't know what to take from that re: a potential slot at Glasto....anyone?

At least he's not a UK exclusive to Wireless like some of us feared.

Yep, the fact he's around for Wireless the week after but isn't an exclusive there makes him highly likely for Glasto, IMO.

[Frankly Mr Shankly]

I think I've underestimated him... He could possibly headline Bestival I suppose, they've had a hip hop headliner for the past two years so it would make sense.

[ChrisTGA]

I've genuinely just heard a Kendrick Lamar song for the first time in my life. I was thinking, how's he got so high up at R&L... Turns out he's been around since 2003. Anyone fancy filling me in on why he's so big?

[Tuna]

I've genuinely just heard a Kendrick Lamar song for the first time in my life. I was thinking, how's he got so high up at R&L... Turns out he's been around since 2003. Anyone fancy filling me in on why he's so big?

I guess people like his music

[Rose-Colored Boy]

I've genuinely just heard a Kendrick Lamar song for the first time in my life. I was thinking, how's he got so high up at R&L... Turns out he's been around since 2003. Anyone fancy filling me in on why he's so big?

Absence makes the heart grow fonder. He's good but there's no way he hasn't been seriously boosted by expectation for his new album rather than anything he's done before, he played third down on the second stage at V last time he did a UK fest.

[Matt42]

I think he'l either have to sub the pyramid or headline the other now

Hate to be pessimistic but I don't think he's gonna be there...

[Sketchead]

I've genuinely just heard a Kendrick Lamar song for the first time in my life. I was thinking, how's he got so high up at R&L... Turns out he's been around since 2003. Anyone fancy filling me in on why he's so big?

If you've a genuine interest in hip-hop, listen to Good Kid, Maad City in full.

I really, REALLY hope he's playing Glasto. Not sure if his Reading & Leeds appearance makes it more likely or less likely or changes nothing, mind.

Headlining the Other vs Foo Fighters will do.

Edited February 24, 2015 by Sketchead

[kingcrawler]

I think he'l either have to sub the pyramid or headline the other now

Hate to be pessimistic but I don't think he's gonna be there...

I dunno, I think he'd work quite well headlining the Other stage opposite Foo Fighters.

[ghostdancer1]

Yep, the fact he's around for Wireless the week after but isn't an exclusive there makes him highly likely for Glasto, IMO.

why would not being exclusive there make him highly likely for Glaso?

the reason he wasn't exclusive for Wireless was obviously because he was booked for R&L....

[Rose-Colored Boy]

why would not being exclusive there make him highly likely for Glaso?

the reason he wasn't exclusive for Wireless was obviously because he was booked for R&L....

because as I see it the only reason he wasn't likely for Glasto already, having been announced for Wireless, was the question mark about whether he was a Wireless exclusive

Edited February 24, 2015 by Zac Quinn

[Bignews]

I dunno, I think he'd work quite well headlining the Other stage opposite Foo Fighters.

nope as this would piss me off to a whole new level

[Festiboi69]

As someone who really likes hip hop i just can't seem to get into his music apart from a couple of songs.

[judaslad]

The fact that he's playing Essence Festival in New Orleans the day before wireless makes me think he's not doing GF

[ryan.smith]

Ah, that'll be him ruled out then. He won't fly across the Atlantic, back again, then back to Europe for most of the Summer

[kalifire]

Bugger. That's really thrown a spanner in the works, hasn't it. I was really hoping for Kendrick this year as well.

Fingers crossed for Kanye, Run The Jewels and The Roots.

[The 38 year old virgin]

she's a pretty huge name... at least, i bet her fees are through the fucking roof

Not as huge as englebert humperdink

[Rose-Colored Boy]

Ah, that'll be him ruled out then. He won't fly across the Atlantic, back again, then back to Europe for most of the Summer

Yes he will, because he's playing a festival in Poland on July 2nd.

Edited February 25, 2015 by Zac Quinn

[Winslow Leach]

Yes he will, because he's playing a festival in Poland on July 2nd.

[FloorFiller]

Yes he will, because he's playing a festival in Poland on July 2nd.

says on his website that he's playing New Orleans on July 2nd

[ryan.smith]

Yes he will, because he's playing a festival in Poland on July 2nd.

No what I was saying was, he wouldn't fly over for Glastonbury, then back to the US for New Orleans, then back to Europe again for the festivals

[Rose-Colored Boy]

says on his website that he's playing New Orleans on July 2nd

Probably because that's the first day of that festival, the Thursday at Essence is only a small opening ceremony with barely anyone playing according to this article - http://www.nola.com/essencefest/index.ssf/2015/02/2015_essence_festival_to_featu.html