Some moments change music forever, and Kendrick Lamar created one of them. By breaking barriers that once kept hip-hop from elite artistic recognition, he proved the genre’s storytelling power could ...

Think about the last time someone from your favorite genre got acknowledged by institutions that typically ignore your world. Feels surreal, right? That’s exactly what happened on April 16, 2018, when ...

Kendrick Lamar has called himself “the greatest rapper alive,” and on April 16, he became the first rapper to win the Pulitzer Prize for music. The Pulitzer board described Lamar’s fourth album, DAMN.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - California rapper Kendrick Lamar on Monday became the first rapper to win the Pulitzer Prize for music, one of the most prestigious arts awards in the United States. Lamar, 30, ...

First a Pulitzer and now this. Kendrick Lamar has done what no other rap artist has: With his four wins tonight, the “luther” rapper passed Jay-Z as the most-honored hip-hip artist in Grammy history.

Pulitzer Prize winning rapper Kendrick Lamar and classical music composer Igor Stravinsky have much more in common than a shared birthday. Both musicians were born on June 17 (albeit 105 years apart), ...

For the second year running, Kendrick Lamar is living his best life at the Grammys. After scooping up five prizes last year, the 38-year-old Lamar on Sunday won five more including Record of the Year, ...