Kendrick Lamar
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Music Kendrick Lamar and Drake both dropped albums that have been competing on the charts in recent months.
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Music The update comes as Drake is still gearing up to release his highly-anticipated solo album, "Iceman," at some point this year.
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Music DJ Akademiks was in the know during the Drake and Kendrick Lamar beef, which has given him some unique perspective.
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Music Lamar revealed some pretty personal accounts on this "Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers" track and fans are understandably clapping back at Akademiks.
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Beef Hitta J3 and Dody6 are among other upcoming L.A. rappers featured on Kendrick Lamar's latest album, GNX. Other features include Peysoh
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Music With J. Cole going on a media tour, DJ Akademiks went off on his livestream, claiming that the artist is pathetic for kowtowing to Kendrick.
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Music Top5 has been furious with Drake for promoting Pressa's new album, "Press Machine II," on his Instagram Story
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Music According to Ray Vaughn, most of the notes fellow West Coast rapper Kendrick Lamar had for him involved ad-libs.
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Music At this point, Kendrick Lamar can live off this song quite comfortably.
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Music When you're one of the greatest, people expect that much more from you.
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Music Akademiks had to respond.
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Music Kendrick Lamar recently cracked the "NYT's" list for the best 30 living songwriters and George Clinton agrees with the placement.
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Zachary Horvath
