During the show, Serena appeared on one of the stages doing a Crip Walk dance during Kendrick's performance of 'Not Like Us'.

Photo: Gregory Shamus/ It looked like Kendrick was more interested in the aesthetics of the cover art of To Pimp a Butterfly than the acrimonious complaints of songs like “The Blacker the Berry.” ...

The enthusiastic response to his music has been driven in part by the perception that he’s a political vessel. But what ...

Ahead of Kendrick Lamar’s headline performance at the Super Bowl half-time show in New Orleans, we explore the rapper’s journey from the unforgiving streets of Compton to pop culture ubiquity.