Today, on what would have been Kobe Bryant’s 42nd birthday, Nike has released an ad told by Kendrick Lamar. “Kobe taught us to be better,” Kendrick says in the short clip (titled “Better: Mamba Forever”). Check it out below.
Kobe Bryant died Jan. 26 in a helicopter crash. Bryant’s 13-year-old daughter Gianna Maria-Onore Bryant also died in the accident. An outcry from tributes from the music world followed the news of her death. Tomorrow (August 24) the Los Angeles Lakers will honor Bryant by wearing special jerseys that remind the late players two numbers, 8 and 24. Snoop Dogg shared his own saying honors via ESPN earlier today.
Kendrick Lamar’s last studio album was the Pulitzer Prize-winning LP DAMN., which came in 2017. The following year he was released Black Panther the Album.
In 2019, Kendrick Lamar performed on SiR’s ‘Hair Down’, ‘Rearview’, Raphael Saadiq, the Lion King fresh “NILE,” Dreamville’s “Under the Sun,” and 2 Chainz’s “Momma I Hit a Lick.”
Read “With Kendrick Lamar’s Pulitzer Win, The World Can Finally Catch Rap” on the news.
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