A guy like Kendrick Lamar, the artistry is really high. It’s guys of today who are writing and they have something important to say. It’s not just Irving Berlin and George Gershwin.
We were able to do that with Nas and now we’re continuing that with Kendrick Lamar … I feel like we have a stewardship to the great American songbook and to me that’s always being written. “A few years ago I realized there’s one genre of music that’s very important in American culture that we have never worked with … and that is hip-hop. Reineke says the idea for hip-hop collaborations was born several years ago. But when you’re talking in the modern vernacular poetry of current hip-hop and the types of sounds and samples and funk and R&B music that you hear in the background, then you add on top of that the horns and lush strings of a symphony orchestra, it’s a beast that takes on its own entity. “We basically recreated and reinvented his ‘Illmatic’ album,” Reineke says. That’s because Reineke also conducted the NSO Pops with rapper Nas last year. But it’s not something we’re totally unfamiliar with.”
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“This is going to be quite an adventure because you have two very, very different worlds colliding, from a full symphony classical orchestra, with the world of hip-hop. “It is pretty incredible,” NSO Pops conductor Steven Reineke tells WTOP. Lamar will rap his social commentary on stage with an orchestral accompaniment by the NSO Pops. WASHINGTON - The Kennedy Center is a hot ticket Tuesday night for a show that sold out in just minutes: Grammy-winning rapper Kendrick Lamar playing with the National Symphony Orchestra. Business & Finance Click to expand menu.
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