The album is a gripping treatise on the relationship between Lamar's inner turmoil and the cultural landscape.
Lady Gaga has had this Oscar in her hands since the A Star Is Born trailer dropped and launched a hundred memes.
Listen to a playlist of the best singles of the year on YouTube and Spotify.
The specter of violent death becomes a narrative device that wraps its arms around the whole album.
After both losing to Daft Punk two years ago, Kendrick Lamar and Taylor Swift face off again in Album of the Year.
The sentiment of “How many Grammys can we give Taylor Swift?” hangs thick in the air.
We’re kicking off our Grammy predictions with our picks in some of the smaller genre categories.
The year’s best singles found new, inventive means of correspondence between the past and the present.
Kendrick Lamar, Alabama Shakes, Against Me!, Flying Lotus, Tears for Fears, Sylvan Esso, Elle King, Earth Wind & Fire, & More.
Lamar is greatly invested in the post-rap sound he’s aligned himself with, which is another pointed departure from Good Kid, M.A.A.D City.
Last year I made the mistake of second-guessing the Academy’s recent trend of awarding the biggest selling album in this category.
Few Grammy categories are as easily derided as Best New Artist, which with each passing year continues to push the word “new” to the absolute limits of its meaning.
Listen to a playlist of the best singles of the year on YouTube and Spotify.
True to its retro-hip-hop style, the track pays homage to the Beastie Boys’s “So What’cha Want.”
With Good Kid, M.A.A.D City, Lamar has crafted an intelligent and mature album on the theme of transformation.
“Kill for Love” is, on the surface, enraptured, but more than just a little creepy.