Kendrick Lamar

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And I hope that can serve as a reminder here in Britain to protect the rights that you have, protect the healthcare that you have.” The modern successor to Iggy Pop, she has a flicky peroxide mullet and wears a tiny gold two-piece that makes her look like Barbarella by way of Abba, and seems, to put it politely, absolutely mashed. “I saw a man with a plant pot for a head coming out of the loo. Anyone who says Glastonbury is getting overly gentrified needs to see Amyl and the Sniffers, one of the few bands around today who give off a genuine sense of danger. With a stage backdrop reading “we still believe in love” they announced their arrival with gutsy anthem Dexter and Sinister – and the crowd go remarkably wild. And then they leap into the exuberant chaos of their first ever song: Five Colours in Her Hair, which I did not remember having a lyric about wanting to “bone her” – risque! It’s their first time at Glastonbury (“thank you for breaking our virginity!” – I heard them say this, so you have to read it, too), and they’re certainly enjoying it, from what I can see of the lead guitarist zestfully zipping around the stage. Her set is also a masterclass in stagecraft, switching between acoustic guitar and singing to the audience, arms-outstretched, charming as well as acerbic. At Primavera festival in Barcelona she reportedly spent a lot of her set dissing her ex-husband, the subject of her latest album Star-Crossed – and given the opening skit, its deeply dramatic flamenco-western title track with a burning heart behind her, you’d be forgiven for expecting that hell hath no fury like a country singer scorned. Taking to the stage wearing a chic silk shirt and matching shorts, both by the hyped luxury resortwear brand Casablanca, she is a sweet, compelling presence, casual in attitude but totally in control of her crowd. “I see your cowboy hats, I know you know what yee-haw means,” she smiles, looking out at a crowd spotted with pink fluffy western numbers and breaking into her disco-fied song High Horse – her giddy-up Get Lucky. Country music has never been much one to boogie to – line-dancing, sure, but not gleeful shape-throwing – but Musgraves is a fearlessly genre-blending star. Although her band often overwhelms her vocals – powerful bass muffling any of the nuances in her words, the stadium-primed drum kit a constant distracting presence – Koffee’s voice is still a remarkable instrument, at turns husky, sweet, emphatic and lackadaisical.

Kendrick performed in Milan last week, giving an indication to the songs he will perform at Worthy Farm tonight.

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Signposting the release of Straight Outta Compton that hit cinemas in the very same year, Lamar told his 12 million followers, “Straight Outta Compton Movie in Theaters 2day. Though absence only makes the heart grow fonder, and in 2022 Glastonbury has received an abundance of attention, with 200,000 festival-goers crowding through the gates to enjoy an extended weekend of musical ecstasy and bohemian bliss. In fact, Glastonbury has only been cancelled on three occasions, with each one relating to a major viral outbreak, the most recent postponement of which coming in 2020 and 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Glastonbury was due to celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2020, but those plans were put on hold by the pandemic. The festival was held intermittently in the 1970s and it wasn´t until the 1990s that it really began to acquire its current status. The 100,000 strong crowd at the dairy farm in south west England serenaded McCartney onto the stage with "Happy Birthday", and were treated to timeless classics including "Can´t Buy Me Love", "Love Me Do", "Blackbird", "Helter Skelter", "Let It Be" and "Hey Jude".

Soul singer Diana Ross will fill the Sunday teatime legends slot.

Eilish gave an electrifying headline performance on the Pyramid Stage on Friday to end the first day of performances at Glastonbury. To end the historic set he sang The Beatles’ song The End to a cheering crowd with Springsteen and Grohl also returning to provide guitar solos. Sir Paul also remembered his nearest and dearest during the headline set including dedicating a piano-led version of My Valentine to his wife Nancy, Something to his Beatles’ bandmate George Harrison and Here Today to John Lennon. To mark the momentous occasion, Sir Paul treated the masses in the crowd to a selection of his own songs as well as beloved tracks by The Beatles and from his later group Wings. The electrifying show was further amplified as he introduced Grohl to the stage to sing I Saw Her Standing There and Band On The Run. The US rapper will be the last performer to take to the Pyramid Stage on Sunday, concluding the festivities at Worthy Farm in Somerset.

Kendrick Lamar opened his Glastonbury headline set with a powerful, theatrical performance unlike anything else the festival has seen so far.

"We're so happy to be here, in the place love was invented." She even threw in a karaoke version of Fleetwood Mac's scathing break-up anthem Dreams for good measure. "We're in this together. He always stands up for black people, for impoverished people, people who are unfairly treated - and that means a lot to people. "I like where the energy is at right now Glastonbury," he declared. "Anyone know any positions for sheep farming going, as that sounds really great right now."

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One of the highlights of the year for me." A third wrote: "love the Glastonbury festival. The soul singer told fans: "I love you all so much. She recently told BBC Breakfast the Spice Girls would love to perform at Glastonbury. Addressing the crowd, he said: "I like where your energy is at right now Glastonbury," before his lively fans sang along to his anthem i. Kendrick opened the performance with an eye-catching dance routine, as he emerged wearing a crown of thorns. He later said: "I see so many faces. Different creed, different colours," before adding: "I’m wearing this crown. She said: "It’s the dream, the absolute dream, we would love to do it." She said: "The song we’re about to do is I think one of the favourites that we’ve written and it’s about the concept of power and how we need to always remember how not to abuse it. "I wanted to dedicate this next song to the five members of the Supreme Court who have shown us that at the end of the day, they truly don’t give a s**t about freedom." "And today is a really, really dark day for women in the US. I’m just going to say that as I cannot bear to think about it any longer in this moment."

The American rapper has a net worth of $75 million and has earned over $180 million in his career to date.

According to Celebrity Net Worth, he has a net worth of around $75 million - having earned over $180 million in his career so far. Kendrick Lamar is set to close out Glastonbury tonight as the festival's final headline act. Now two years on, music fans will finally have their chance to see Kendrick at Worthy Farm. As with the previous few days, Glastonbury Festival coverage will be on BBC Two from 8pm until 10.30pm. At this point coverage switches to BBC One until 12.30am. The rapper is set to play the Pyramid Stage tonight at 9.45pm. His set is expected to last an hour and a half, concluding at 11.15pm. The Grammy-winning singer was expected to headline the 2020 edition of Glastonbury before it was cancelled due to the pandemic.

American rapper Kendrick Lamar is set to perform at Glastonbury Festival this evening. The US star will be the last artist to take to the Pyramid Stage and ...

For those at home you will be able to catch up on all the performances on BBC Iplayer. This will be Lamar's debut at Glasto and it was supposed to occur in 2020, but that was sadly delayed due to the pandemic. The US star will be the last artist to take to the Pyramid Stage and will conclude the festivities at Worthy Farm in Somerset.

Kendrick Lamar has closed his Glastonbury set with an emotional speech thanking fans, followed by a performance of 'Savior'.

Lamar will bring his ‘The Big Steppers’ world tour to the UK and Ireland in November for a series of live dates. ‘Mr. Morale And The Big Steppers’ was released in May 2022. Baby Keem and Tanna Leone will provide support on all dates of the tour. Lamar has spent the week in France, performing in Cannes on Monday night (June 20) as part of a Spotify event. Wade (June 24). Multiple musicians have referenced the ruling during their Glastonbury sets, including Billie Eilish, Lorde and Phoebe Bridgers. At the end of the ‘Mr. Morale And The Big Steppers’ track, he repeated the chant: “They judge you, they judged Christ. Godspeed for women’s rights”, before promptly leaving the stage as fake blood poured down from his crown of thorns.

The US rapper, 35, opened his set with a group of male dancers all dressed in white shirts and black trousers with a red robe on their arms as female dancers ...

The electrifying show was further amplified as he introduced Grohl to the stage to sing I Saw Her Standing There and Band On The Run, marking Grohl’s first public performance since the death of his Foo Fighters bandmate, drummer Taylor Hawkins. As he took to the Pyramid Stage, the former Beatle became the festival’s oldest solo headliner, a week after he celebrated his 80th birthday. The Hertfordshire singer-songwriter departed the stage to rapturous applause following a rendition of Shotgun. The soul singer treated the crowd to a selection of classics including Baby Love, You Can’t Hurry Love, Stop! In The Name Of Love and at the conclusion of Chain Reaction pink confetti was launched from the stage. Lamar told the crowd he liked “where the energy is at right now” as they continued to chant and dance to his headline set. Kendrick Lamar has kicked off his debut performance at Glastonbury in electrifying style as he brings the festival to a close.

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‘If he went back and made changes he would be giving in to the complaints and push back instead of just sticking to his initial feelings,’ Chloe says. ‘There have been plenty of suggestions as to how he could have done what he has done in these lyrics better. He needs to talk with those he is talking about and listen. ‘He is an award-winning writer and I think his use of the word, in the manner he did, was very clever. His vulnerable retelling of his experience unlearning the bigotry he was taught as a kid provides a framework for other people to map their own experiences onto in order to grow in the same way he has.’ He makes an example out of himself in this song to display the growth and learning process people can undergo when someone they love comes out as trans, bisexual, gay, non-binary. Chloe reckons that for the most part people understood the point Kendrick was making. Ramon also notes Kendrick’s constant reinforcement of the incredibly positive relationship he had as a youth with his trans uncle. This might be where alarm bells start ringing for those in the LGBTQ+ community who might be more sensitive to harsh language, and rightfully so, however, this wasn’t the case for me.’ My only fear is that maybe some bigots out there think the slurs are ok with the mindset “if Kendrick said it why can’t I?” For 26-year-old Ramon, Auntie Diaries explains the incredibly messy path a cisgender, heterosexual person goes through in their journey to allyship with the queer community. ‘This made me think of the idea of growth,’ she says.

Sporting a bejewelled crown of thorns and with a profound sense of theatre, Lamar proves he is one of the most gifted rappers we have.

A trio of tracks from Good Kid MAAD City – Money Trees; The Art of Peer Pressure; Swimming Pools (Drank), the last with two dancers writhing woozily around Lamar – is followed by the big hitters from To Pimp a Butterfly: King Kunta sounds ferocious, the chorus of Alright as potent as ever. Lamar’s set is tightly choreographed, involving two troupes of dancers, one all-male, the other all-female, their movements shifting from sinuous to militaristic. This time it involves not the former One Direction star but Eminem, who has apparently been spotted swimming at the exclusive Babington House hotel not far from the Worthy Farm site: evidence, it’s adduced, that he’s set to make a guest appearance during Kendrick Lamar’s performance.

Lamar brought a troupe of dancers, the men in white shirts and black trousers, the women in gauzy red dresses. It was Lindsay Kemp meets Busby Berkeley. The man ...

He’s certainly the only one to have won a Pulitzer Prize, recognised for his sinewy, percussive rhymes about civil rights, inequality and mental health. Glastonbury has come a long way since 2008, when the idea of Jay-Z headlining brought thousands, including Noel Gallagher, out in hives. Kendrick Lamar at Glastonbury 2022 review: Stylish, uncompromising and in control

He ended the set by yelling, “Godspeed for women's rights; they judge you, they judge Christ!”

Kendrick Lamar returned last month with Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers, his first studio album since 2017’s Pulitzer Prize–winning Damn. The new LP features a slew of notable collaborators, such as Portishead’s Beth Gibbons, Summer Walker, Ghostface Killah, Thundercat, Baby Keem, Sampha, and others. Earlier today (June 26), Kendrick took the stage at Worthy Farm in Somerset, England to perform “N95,” “Silent Hill,” and more with dancers doing detailed choreography. The rapper was initially slated to perform at the 2020 festival, but it was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Anyone thinking this is going to be a set of reflective, conscious hip hop – like the bulk of his latest album – is in for a shock.

And Lamar? Well tonight he has it all: the hits, the heritage, and the humility. Anyone thinking this is going to be a set of reflective, conscious hip hop – like the bulk of the work on Mr Morale – is in for a shock. Jay Z was the first hip-hop artist to headline the festival in 2008, an announcement which prompted Noel Gallagher of Oasis to claim: “I’m not having hip-hop at Glastonbury. It’s wrong.” Jay’s performance went down well, but it didn't seem to settle the doubters. Before anybody has time to think we're into “Backstreet Freestyle”, followed by the opening bars of “The Art of Peer Pressure”. Lamar is going hard; he doesn't miss a beat; his flow is on point. Then “Poetic Justice” flows seamlessly into “B*** Don't Kill My Vibe”. Lamar doesn't let up for the whole of his first album, moving seamlessly from track to track. “DNA” from his Pulitzer Prize-winning album DAMN drops, and Lamar's energy and flow is so good that it feels like he's overtaking everyone. His graceful main feature is a coterie of dancers that increases in size as the concert goes on. They judge you, they judge Christ,” raps Lamar, to huge cheers. At the show's midpoint, he swaps the male dancers for female, who frame him in a nurturing embrace. Lamar rolls straight into “Money Trees”. The hypnotic sample – a reversed riff from the Beach House track “Silver Soul” – coils hauntingly through the warm bodies as a cool night closes in. “Swimming Pools”, his 2012 single, is an early crowd-pleaser, as drinks are held aloft. An understated setup, zero guest appearances, wearing a white shirt, black suit trousers and a crown of thorns.

The rapper puts of a raging party as he closes out Sunday night on the Pyramid Stage – but he leave the audience plenty to think about too.

Then he closes his poignant Glastonbury show with ‘Saviour’. Kendrick Lamar’s evolution has occurred before our eyes, as the once-coy and timid boy, who needed to make it off section eight housing, now understands the power of his tongue. The first sentence Kendrick says to the crowd is “I think we’ve got a whole lot of love out here tonight: Glastonbury, do you agree?” – and it isn’t just superficial crowd hyping-up. Firstly, when the zippy ‘Silent Hill’ comes on, as he raps, “Picking my daughter up, she needs all the love”, he smiles and nods off stage towards his wife in the wings. Kendrick Lamar allows his primetime spot, televised to the entire world, to showcase contemporary Black art – and this adds to this performance’s supremacy. In between his latest record and the one before that ( the Pulitzer Award-winning ‘DAMN.’), the 35-year-old’s life has developed in so many ways; he’s become a father, and with that came a new sense of clarity on life. After a five-year hiatus, the Compton rap phenomenon that is Kendrick Lamar decided to make his comeback this year with his fifth album, ‘Mr Morale & The Big Steppers’, and, boy, didn’t the world take him back with open arms.

The US rapper is the final performer to take to the Pyramid Stage, concluding the festivities at Worthy Farm in Somerset.

As he took to the Pyramid Stage, the former Beatle became the festival’s oldest solo headliner, a week after he celebrated his 80th birthday. As they audience chanted the opening lyrics to his track Swimming Pools (Drank) as he watched on he asked them “Glastonbury are you ready?” Lamar told the crowd he liked “where the energy is at right now” as they continued to chant and dance to his headline set. Kendrick Lamar has kicked off his debut performance at Glastonbury in electrifying style as he brings the festival to a close. Meanwhile Diana Ross reeled off hit after hit when she took to the stage earlier in the day for the Sunday teatime legends slot. Kendrick Lamar kicks off debut Glastonbury set as he brings festival to a close

The rapper, who's won everything from Grammys to a Pulitzer, closed the festival with his powerful headline set on the Pyramid Stage.

The beautifully romantic “Love” was so tenderly performed that the applause went on and on for it and the previously stony-faced Lamar was visibly moved. They judged Christ, they judge you”. It was a sentiment a little lost on the religion-averse British crowd, though it led to a powerful moment during “Savior” when he interpolated a call for women’s rights into the final moments as blood descended down his face from the thorns on his crown – making him one of the few male performers at Glastonbury to have addressed the US Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. During “Institutionalised”, the words “They want us to bow” filled the stage backdrop, while Kendrick performed most of the song stooped over as his dancers enclosed him; for “Count Me Out”, his female dancers dressed in red were arrayed around him, like an image of Mary Magdalene bathing Christ.

The US rapper concluded proceedings at Worthy Farm in Somerset with one of the most theatrical shows of the festival.

As he took to the Pyramid Stage, the former Beatle became the festival’s oldest solo headliner, a week after he celebrated his 80th birthday. Earlier on Sunday, George Ezra confirmed he was the secret guest on the John Peel stage, three days after pulling out of Tinderbox Festival in Denmark due to a “nasty bout of laryngitis”. The soul singer treated the crowd to a selection of classics including Baby Love, You Can’t Hurry Love, Stop! In The Name Of Love and at the conclusion of Chain Reaction pink confetti was launched from the stage. Following his song, the audience chanted “Oh Kendrick Lamar” as he listened along, appearing to become emotional as they showed their love to him. Earlier in his set, Lamar thanked the crowd for the “special moment” as he had been waiting to be back performing live after being locked away during the pandemic. The performance reached its theatrical pinnacle at the end as the lights came up during his rendition of new song Saviour to reveal fake blood was pouring down his face from a crown of thorns.

The US rapper is the final performer to take to the Pyramid Stage, concluding the festivities at Worthy Farm in Somerset.

As he took to the Pyramid Stage, the former Beatle became the festival’s oldest solo headliner, a week after he celebrated his 80th birthday. As they audience chanted the opening lyrics to his track Swimming Pools (Drank) as he watched on he asked them “Glastonbury are you ready?” Lamar told the crowd he liked “where the energy is at right now” as they continued to chant and dance to his headline set. Kendrick Lamar has kicked off his debut performance at Glastonbury in electrifying style as he brings the festival to a close. Meanwhile Diana Ross reeled off hit after hit when she took to the stage earlier in the day for the Sunday teatime legends slot. Kendrick Lamar kicks off debut Glastonbury set as he brings festival to a close

Kendrick Lamar closed Glastonbury 2022 with a powerful headline set which saw him chant "Godspeed for women's rights" before dramatically exiting the ...

Ahead of the rapper’s performance, Lorde took to the Pyramid Stage to deliver a set which moved from melodic moments to high octane energy. As his dancers encircled him, fireworks erupted across the stage as he repeatedly chanted "they judge you, they judge Christ. Godspeed for women’s rights" before leaving the stage. The performance reached its theatrical pinnacle at the end as the lights came up during his rendition of new song Saviour to reveal fake blood was pouring down his face from a crown of thorns.