British Summer Time festival,Hyde Park, London
US rapper Kendrick Lamar’s rage cuts through Hyde Park’s sound barrier to give headliner Florence Welch a fitting platform for her histrionic pop opera
It must he hard to headline a festival knowing that the primary attraction lies beneath you on the bill. Florence + the Machine may be the titular main draw at this British Summer Time one-dayer, and but the enormous sense of anticipation is surrounding Kendrick Lamar. With three No 1 albums to her credit and a vast,evangelical fan following, Florence Welch is Britain’s biggest-draw female live attraction after Adele. Yet nowadays she is up against a rapper who is flying domestic after this show to headline the White House’s Fourth of July barbecue at the express request of President Obama. It’s quite the clash of the heavyweights. The Compton rapper is undoubtedly the hottest property in hip-hop apt now, and Florence is in danger of being upstaged here.
Kendrick Lamar's rage is all the more powerful for being delivered with ice-wintry,forensic precisionContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com