Shannon Sanders, an African-American South Nashville native and award-winning BMI executive director of creative, reflects on decades of excellence.

Kendrick Lamar made a powerful statement about Blackness in America, full of symbolism and not meant to please everyone.

Nearly a quarter century after its Broadway debut, the Tony winning musical is back at City Center Encores. Does its ghoulish ...

If the Eagles won the Super Bowl, then the next Amplifier playlist would be made up entirely of songs by artists from Philadelphia. The football gods upheld their end of this bargain — in case you ...

In May 2015, Swift enlisted Kendrick Lamar to appear on the remix of “Bad Blood,” the 1989 clapback track that was reportedly aimed at Katy Perry. The collaboration wasn’t a surprise to those who had ...

He was born Kendrick Lamar Duckworth in Compton, California, a city renowned for pioneering music, but also being home to ...

Uncle Sam — aka Samuel L. Jackson — nearly stole the Super Bowl halftime show. The “Pulp Fiction” actor was Kendrick Lamar’s ...

Kendrick Lamar's fiancée, Whitney Alford, is his longtime partner, while his parents, Paula Oliver and Kenny Duckworth, ...

Kendrick Lamar is set to make history as the first solo hip-hop artist to headline the Super Bowl halftime show tonight (February 9). The performance comes just days after he won a record five Grammy ...

Born in Compton, Calif., Lamar has long been celebrated for his intricate albums of introspective, genre-stretching gangster rap, like “good kid, m.A.A.d city” (2012), “To Pimp a Butterfly” (2015) and ...

Director Deeno Dennis’s action extravaganza ‘Bazooka’, featuring Malayalam superstar Mammootty in the lead, will hit screens ...

Kendrick Lamar started developing his intricate lyricism, thought-provoking storytelling and socially conscious themes while ...