Kendrick Lamar has “new materials” dropping quickly, say Danish pageant Roskilde.
Lamar was announced yesterday (December 30) as a headliner for the pageant’s fiftieth anniversary occasion subsequent summer time.
Within the pageant’s announcement post for the line-up reveal, underneath a bit entitled ‘new materials on the best way’, they wrote: “Lamar first visited Roskilde Competition in 2013 when he performed an unforgettable live performance on the Area stage. When he returned two years later, he had simply launched the masterpiece To Pimp a Butterfly, and the live performance on the Orange Stage was a real present of power.
“Two albums later – and with new materials alongside the best way – he’s as soon as once more able to take Roskilde Competition’s predominant stage with a live performance that’s more likely to be one of many absolute highlights of the summer time.”
Roskilde Competition, Denmark. CREDIT: Press
The announcement of a brand new headliner for Roskilde is giving followers hope that the pageant – and 2021’s pageant season as an entire – may probably nonetheless go forward regardless of ongoing coronavirus fears.
“We’re on the brink of a brand new 12 months, and we predict there’s a want and motive to be hopeful,” Roskilde’s head of programming Anders Wahrén mentioned in an announcement. “That’s why we’re revealing one other act for subsequent 12 months’s pageant.”
Rumours have been swirling throughout a lot of 2020 concerning new music from Kendrick Lamar.
Lamar, who had been set to headline Glastonbury this year, had been anticipated to drop new music in 2020 and was spotted apparently shooting a music video final month. New music would comply with his 2017 album ‘DAMN’.
The rapper recently addressed the substantial gaps between his solo album releases in a recent interview as he admitted that he can “spend the entire 12 months simply serious about how I’m gonna execute a brand new sound. I can’t do the identical factor again and again.”