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Review | Drake and Kendrick Lamar Beef

By Quinn Cilea, Culture Editor • May 21, 2024

Drake and Kendrick Lamar have become the most recent rap beef, with the pair trading punches and competing to see who can punch lower

Editorial | What your top artist on Spotify Wrapped says about you

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • December 1, 2022

The Pitt News Editorial Board discusses what your top artist on Spotify says about your personality.

When the whole world collides: global music hits the charts

By Levko Karmazyn | Columnist • November 8, 2017

If you turned on your car radio during the summer of 2016, chances are you came under the influence of the tropical pulse of Drake’s “One Dance.” As the first song to hit one billion plays on...

“At.Long.Last.A$AP” an unremarkable tribute

By Nick Mullen / Staff Writer • June 24, 2015

“At.Long.Last.A$AP”A$AP RockyReleased: May 25Grade: B+After much speculation and delay, the sophomore album from hip-hop artist A$AP Rocky, “At.Long.Last.A$AP,” dropped unexpectedly on May 25.Compared...

Drake takes on Cash Money, hints at major leap forward on new mixtape

By Dale Shoemaker / Assistant News Editor • February 19, 2015

DrakeIf You're Reading This, It's Too LateGrade: A-Scene: Inside the Cash Money Records main office, Young Money floor. Standard office layout with rows of cubicles. Tour posters for Lil Wayne, Drake,...

Julianna Barwick talks Drake, Choirs

By Shawn Cooke / Staff Writer • February 5, 2014

Julianna Barwick specializes in a stunning brand of simplicity. Characterized by wordless melodies, choral looping and a penchant for ethereal reverb, Barwick’s songs layer dozens of sounds and vocal...

On Nothing Was the Same, Drake displays lyrical depth

By Jeff Ihaza / Senior Staff Writer • September 25, 2013

DrakeNothing Was the SameA-Sounds like: Driving along Highway 59 in Houston. Alone. Thinking about “her.”“Dropped the mixtape, that sh*t sounded like an album” Drake boasts on the lyrically lopsided...