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Kendrick Lamar

1987–present

Hiphop

About Kendrick Lamar

Kendrick Lamar is the defining rapper of the 2010s and 2020s, the first musician outside classical and jazz to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. good kid, m.A.A.d city and To Pimp a Butterfly turned Compton stories into dense, literary albums. Not Like Us swept the 2025 Grammy Awards and he headlined the Super Bowl halftime show that year.