Kendrick Lamar
American rapper and songwriter (born 1987) · United States · Musicians
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Something wrong?He turned Compton storytelling into high art - the first rapper to win a Pulitzer, the most-awarded in Grammy history, and the architect of albums that doubled as cultural reckoning. In 2024, a feud with Drake became the year's defining pop moment and sent four songs to number one.
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Lamar began his career while he attended Centennial High School.
Lamar performing at Sound Academy in 2011, prior to the release of Section.80
Lamar performing at the Pitchfork Music Festival in 2012
Lamar at the Hollywood Palladium before the 57th Annual Grammy Awards (2015), where he won Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Song for "I"
Lamar performing on The Damn Tour at TD Garden in July 2017
Lamar performing at the Spectrum Center for The Big Steppers Tour in 2022
Lamar at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium during his Grand National Tour in 2025In their own words 1
, [Africa] just felt like a place where I belonged. It was as simple as that.
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Kendrick Lamar Duckworth started releasing tracks as K.Dot in Compton high school, signed with Top Dawg Entertainment in 2005, and co-founded Black Hippy before his 2011 debut Section.80 caught ears. Good Kid, M.A.A.D City arrived in 2012 - a gangsta rap bildungsroman that became the longest-charting hip hop album on the Billboard 200 and later Rolling Stone's greatest concept album of all time. To Pimp a Butterfly followed in 2015, weaving jazz, funk, and soul into a sprawling meditation on black identity that hit number one and redrew the genre's borders. Damn (2017) leaned into R&B and pop, delivered "Humble", and earned him the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Music - the first for any musician outside classical or jazz. After Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers closed his TDE chapter in 2022, he ignited a public war with Drake in 2024 that produced "Not Like Us" (five Grammys, including Song and Record of the Year) and three other chart-toppers, then released GNX and headlined the most-watched Super Bowl halftime show in history in 2025.
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