Tag: kendrick-lamar
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Not Like Us, review
The following was my 2025 entry for the Anthony Burgess Prize… In Not Like Us, Kendrick Lamar delivers a devastating diss track, a club banger, a workout song and a treatise on cultural appropriation all at once. Taking aim at his long-term rival Drake, the zingy composition which uses samples from Monk Higgins’s 1968 jazz…