Kendrick Lamar and The Little Homies are back, this time collborating with director Dave Meyers for a video that's "just" a series of striking images one after the other, ranging from a Last Supper to a Grey Poupon break and on and on and on.
Was only a matter of time before Ice Cube and Kendrick Lamar boarded the spaceship and paid homage to the OG West Coast funkmaster, George Clinton and his mighty Funadelic.
Hannibal Buress is your new cupid, and his ways may be non-traditional, even downright asinine, but damn he's smooth as he tries to spread love the Chicago way.
"God Is Gansta" is actually a Kendrick Lamar twofer: There's "U" where the rapper descends into madness and alcohol, and then there's "For Sale?" where he gets baptised in a sea of women at David Lynch's Paris club, Le Silencio.
What if the walls of that seedy party motel could talk and answer whether the jail cell tall tale was actually true? That's the essential premise of "These Walls," in which we explore the night in question like it was a comedic Rashomon set in the world of the Ernie Barnes Sugar Shack painting. The truth never totally unravels — especially the KDot x Terry Crews dance interlude — but perhaps the promised sequel will hold the key to it all.
PS: This video is a tale told by adults for adults. Nudity and cursing are involved. Sorry.
Yes, we know Taylor Swift is popular, but just to make sure you realize how big she is on the heels of her star-studded "Bad Blood" video, take a look at the numbers:
20 million - "Bad Blood" broke the 24 hour VEVO record for most views in one day, getting nearly 20 million views in one day.
37 million - Total "Bad Blood" views as I write this, four days after the premiere.
5 billion - Total view count for all her videos.
11 million - Total estimated viewers to the Billboard Music Awards, which televised the exclusive world premiere of the video.
It's like there's the music business, and then there's the Taylor Swift business, with the only similarity being that they use some of the same notes...
Welcome to EXTREME Girl Power. Taylor Swift, director Joseph Kahn and a seemingly countless amount of cameos — Rihanna, Ellie Goulding, Lena Dunham, Hayley Williams, Hailee Steinfeld... you get the picture] — do in four minutes what Sucker Punch tried to do in about 110.
Wouldn't be surprised if the budgets were similar.
"King Kunta" may have premiered on a Times Square gynormotron, but the 1:1 aspect ratio and a warm and fuzzy film vibe is more fitting for an intimate Instagram video.
Kendrick Lamar keeps troubles at bay during a long walk through the city thanks to good music, good vibes and a message of self-worth and love. Plus, it doesn't hurt that Ron "Mr Biggs" Isley is there to bless this revamp of his Isley Brothers classic "That Lady" (which you probably remember from many other usages).
