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diss track, a national cultural discourse on gatekeeping in hip hop, and even an outlandish lawsuit.Now all eyes are on Kendrick, who was deemed the clear winner of the beef, as he leads the this Sunday, February 9, at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans.Folks will be tuning in to see the artist perform hits from his critically acclaimed surprise album GNX, of course, but…there's obviously a lot of curiosity around how the Pulitzer Prize-winning emcee might continue his beef with the former Degrassi: The Next Generation star as well.But, why are Drake and Kendrick Lamar fighting? Before you watch, it might help to have more context. So, here's how we got here:Kendrick Lamar won Record Of The Year, Best Rap Performance, Best Rap Song, Best Music Video, and Song Of The Year for his Drake diss track “Not Like Us."Both Drake and Kendrick did their best to eviscerate each other throughout 2024: Kendrick first fired shots at Drake on “Like That,” his song with Future and Metro Boomin, while Drake used AI to emulate the voices of the late Tupac Shakur and Snoop Dogg to get under the Compton native’s skin on his track “Taylor Made Freestyle.” More back and forth continued until Kendrick released his Mustard-produced hit “Not Like Us,” which trolled the hell out of Drake and had the world singing along in the process.The thing is, the two men weren’t always foes.

Stargazers may have spotted Jupiter and the Moon inching closer together in the sky this week. Tonight is your last chance to see the pair make a close approach, before Mars comes to steal the show over the weekend.

A major railway line near Manchester city centre will be closed for most of the day after a car landed on the tracks. Images show the wreckage of a car which landed on its roof on the tracks below the Regent Road roundabout, in Salford.

A driver luckily escaped after landing on a railway track in a dramatic collision. All trains have been stopped on the line which runs through Eccles this morning (February 7).

Gary Lockyer has his eyes on the FA Cup's Golden Ball and has explained exactly where Manchester United are going wrong this season.

Remy Bond is making major moves!

There aren't many products that are unique to a particular supermarket these days.

Anitta is back with her brand new Spanish-language song “Romeo” and she’s also opening up about the meaning behind the track.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Take-Two Interactive reported its quarterly earnings results for October to December 2024 on Thursday, which once again did not include a specific release date for “Grand Theft Auto 6.” However, the owner of Rockstar Games assures “GTA 6” is still on track for its previously announced fall 2025 window. “We’ve announced a pretty narrow window.

Kendrick Lamar opened up about his recent big win at the 2025 Grammys and his upcoming performance at the 2025 Super Bowl.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic For vinyl aficionados, the rollout of the Record Store Day lineup each year, with 350-plus titles revealed all at once, can prompt a paralyzing case of information overload. There’s no hurry to absorb it all; the day in question is April 12, which leaves plenty of time to peruse the full list — which you can find here.

Divorce have released an empowering new single called ‘Hangman’. Check it out below.Shared today (February 6), the track marks the final offering from the band’s forthcoming debut album ‘Drive To Goldenhammer’.Set for release on March 7 via Gravity/Capitol, the record has already been previewed by radiant lead single ‘All My Freaks’, breezy track ‘Antarctica’ and liberating anthem ‘Pill’.

The Bank of England has announced a cut to interest rates today (February 6), reducing the UK base rate from 4.75 percent down to 4.5 percent.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer “One Piece” actor Mackenyu Maeda, known professionally as simply Mackenyu, has joined the voice cast of Ubisoft‘s upcoming “Assassin’s Creed Shadows.” Best known for playing Roronoa Zoro in Netflix’s smash-hit live-action adaptation of beloved anime “One Piece,” Mackenyu will be playing Gennojo, “a key character who helps the protagonist track and eliminate a crucial target.” Per Ubisoft’s description for the “Assassin’s Creed Shadows” character, “As part of the Shinobi League, players can recruit him into their ‘brotherhood’ for support. Gennojo is a charming, reckless, and deeply conflicted figure, driven by guilt to dismantle a corrupt system.

Inhaler have shared a new single called ‘Billy (Yeah Yeah Yeah)’ – you can listen to it below.The track serves as the final preview of the Dublin band’s third album ‘Open Wide’, which is due for release tomorrow (February 7) via Polydor (pre-order/pre-save here).“Billy, his eyes are like headlights/ Can’t see in the window/ Of his fast car/ She’s the stoplight/ Not turning red or green/ She’s gold and she’s honest/ Don’t justify the reason/ Or lie for a promise,” sings frontman Elijah Hewson in the groovy, ’80s-tinged track.Per a press release, the infectious and upbeat song “further showcases a band thrillingly coming into their own and taking their sound in audacious new directions”.‘Billy (Yeah Yeah Yeah)’ is accompanied by a lo-fi, VHS-style official lyric video. Tune in here:Inhaler’s latest offering follows the recent singles ‘Your House’, ‘Open Wide’ and ‘A Question Of You’.Speaking to NME last October, bassist Robert Keating explained how the group had entered new territory on their third record.He said: “While working with Tom Hull [Kid Harpoon], our producer for this album, we began thinking, ‘How can we make this a little different?’, which led us to try out different stuff and we eventually ended up doing the intro keyboard thing one day [on ‘Your House’], which re-informed the song and made us view it in a new way.“He also had the idea of trying to get the gospel singers in and that was just one of the songs where it worked really well.”Keating continued: “We’ve definitely gotten better at writing songs.

Jack Doohan is addressing his future at BWT Alpine F1 Team.

Marcus Jordan made sure cops knew who he was during his DUI arrest — and who he wanted to hear from!

Kim Kardashian does NOT want to be a full-time momager yet!

Little Simz has shared a cryptic message, leading many fans to speculate a new album is on the way.The English-Nigerian rapper has not released a studio album since ‘NO THANK YOU’ in December 2022, but she closed out 2024 with new single ‘Hello, Hi’ and hinted that there would be more to come in 2025.Now, she has shared a series of new pics of herself on her Instagram page with the cryptic caption: “LOADING.”The post got her fans excited with many of them speculating that new album is set to drop, in the comments section.A post shared by simz (@littlesimz)“Does this mean there’s an album coming,” one wrote while another added: “New Simz drop to shake the whole shit up?”A third added: “We’re album ready.”NME awarded ‘NO THANK YOU’ four stars in 2022, writing: “‘NO THANK YOU’s quiet, understated release provides parallels to Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Untitled Unmastered’ release from 2016, a series of leftovers from his ‘To Pimp A Butterfly’ sessions. That too had a certain looseness and freedom to the tracks, and, much like Lamar, a clear-headed Simz has something to say urgently.

One of Salford’s major roads - ‘dominated’ by cars - is set for big changes.

Avowed have shared three tracks from its gorgeous soundtrack – check them out exclusively on NME below.Avowed is an epic, fantasy role-playing game from Obsidian. A spin-off from their Pillars Of Eternity franchise, the action takes place in the Living Lands, “a mysterious island filled with adventure and danger”.“As an envoy of Aedyr, you are sent to investigate rumors of a spreading plague with a secret that threatens to destroy everything,” teases the game’s synopsis.