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Record Maker: Kendrick Lamar wins Pulitzer Prize

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Kendrick Lamar has won a Pulitzer Prize for his album Damn

Rapper Kendrick Lamar has broken the records by winning the Pulitzer Prize for Music for his album, DAMN.

He becomes the first non-classical or jazz artist to receive the honour, Rolling Stone reported.



The Pulitzer board announced Lamar’s selection on Monday, calling the 2017 LP “a virtuosic song collection unified by its vernacular authenticity and rhythmic dynamism that offers affecting vignettes capturing the complexity of modern African American life.”

DAMN. is Lamar’s fourth studio album, the latest in a series of acclaimed and sonically eclectic records.

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The LP, which has reached double-platinum sales status, was nominated for Album of the Year and won Best Rap Album at this year’s Grammy awards ceremony.

Album cover of DAMN by Kendrick Lamar

Last August, Lamar spoke to Rolling Stone about his creative mindset behind DAMN. “The initial goal was to make a hybrid of my first two commercial albums,” he said.

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“That was our total focus, how to do that sonically, lyrically, through melody – and it came out exactly how I heard it in my head. … It’s all pieces of me.

“My musicality has been driving me since I was four years old. It’s just pieces of me, man, and how I execute it is the ultimate challenge.

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“Going from To Pimp a Butterfly to DAMN., that shit could have crashed and burned if it wasn’t executed right. So I had to be real careful on my subject matter and how I weave in and out of the topics, where it still organically feels like me.”

Last year, the Nobel Prize in Literature also crossed over into mainstream pop music, awarding their prestigious medal to Bob Dylan.

The singer received a $900,000 prize during a small private ceremony in Stockholm after submitting his speech to the Swedish Academy.

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