Kendrick Lamar’s acclaimed 2017 album DAMN. has officially surpassed 10 billion streams on Spotify, marking the first time one of his projects has reached the milestone. The achievement places DAMN.

Jazmin Kylene is a Miami-bred writer and editor with a decade-long career that spans all editorial genres, though she has a particular passion for music journalism. Upon graduating Florida Atlantic ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Four Kendrick Lamar albums appear on the Official Hip-Hop and R&B ...

Replete with biblical references, gangbanging, lilting samples and a tortured artist contemplating, critiquing, praising and chronicling, the album is born of a familiar formula that has made Kendrick ...