Roc Nation signee J. Cole and Top Dawg Entertainment’s Kendrick Lamar are set to team up for an as-yet-untitled collaborative mixtape. XXLMag.com spoke to Lamar, who’s been busy in the studio working with Dr. Dre on Detox, to find out more details on the joint disc.

K. Dot discusses his creative process and the important characteristics he sees in emceeing.


Compton, California's Kendrick Lamar was recently featured in this Windows Phone commercial talking about his creative process, his travels and more. The Section 80 emcee and Nosaj Thing linked up for a collaborative effort and brought Windows cameras along for the work.

The West Coast veteran says that he'll be working with the two artists shortly.


Dr. Dre is reportedly close to being finished with Detox, with plans to focus on other artists once he’s finished. Speaking with Global Grind (via HHNM) at the launch of Diddy and Jimmy Iovine’s Culo by Mazzucco, he discussed focusing on Kendrick Lamar and Slim The Mobster, who will be the “final two artists” he will work with over the next few years.

K.Dot talks about his debut album in 2012 and why he prefers telling stories in his rhymes.


Kendrick Lamar recently chopped it up with TheMashUp.net after a live performance in Sacramento, CA. During the interview, K.Dot spoke about his as-of-yet untitled studio debut album. Although he was scant with the details, Lamar said that it would be out next year and that like Section.80, it was have very features outside of his in-house crew.

Kendrick Lamar, Boi-1da and T-Minus spoke with MTV on the making of Drake's "Take Care," check out some of what they had to say about it below.

Kendrick Lamar on "Buried Alive":

Kendrick Lamar had interesting chat with XXL about his interlude on Drake's "Take Care", called "Buried Alive".

Check out some of what he had to say on that track and on working with Drake below.

XXLMag.com: What was your first meeting with Drake like? You speak about it some in the verse.

Drake has announced the official North American and European dates for "The Club Paradise" tour.

The tour, which features opening acts Kendrick Lamar and ASAP Rocky, will kick off the North American leg on February 14th at Miami, Florida's Bank United Center. The monthlong venture sees Drizzy touching down in Austin, Texas, Nashville, Tennessee and Los Angeles, California before wrapping up at San Diego, California's Viejas Arena on March 11th.

It seems a joint project between Kendrick Lamar & J. Cole is still in the works.

Kendrick Lamar and ScHoolBoy Q sat down with Billboard to dicuss upcoming projects and Kendrick revealed some details about what he has in store.

Alori Joh, a friend and affiliate of Kendrick Lamar and the Top Dawg Entertainment crew, passed away between Tuesday, February 7th and Wednesday, February 8th, at the age of 25. As of now the details of her death are scarce.

For The Source's February/March 2012 issue they probably have at least one of your favourite rappers featured: 2 Chainz, Mac Miller, Tyga grace the cover, and although Kendrick Lamar isn't on the cover he is featured on the inside photo and is part of the cover story. Peep the photos below, and here's what The Source has to say on it:

Kendrick Lamar took a few minutes to chat with Karen Civil for Civilized Talk, and she asked him his thoughts of being left off MTV's Hottest MCs List. Here's what he had to say:

Some new tunes for this week's Underrated Audio.

Buddy- Staircases Feat. Kendrick Lamar (Prod. Pharrell)

Buddy premiered this track while out at SXSW, and the CDQ version kind of slipped under the radar. It's a chill song, all about getting high. With a feature from Kendrick and production by Pharrell you can't really go wrong.