Kendrick Lamar

Kendrick Lamar is an American hip-hop artist with a successful career who became the first rapper in history to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize. Many musicians consider Lamar to be the "New King of the West Coast."

The future rap artist was born in Compton (California), where his parents moved from Chicago (Illinois). This event happened on June 17, 1987.

The boy got his name in honor of the vocalist of the band "The Tempation" Eddie Kendrix. When Kendrick grew up, he went to study at Centennial High School. By the way, the popular rapper Dr. Dre. Subsequently, it was his work that influenced the boy's future.

Kendrick Lamar Duckworth was brought up in a large family in a rather disadvantaged area. He first witnessed a murder when he was 5 years old. Then a young drug dealer shot a guy near the Lamar family's house.

As a child, he stuttered, so there were no thoughts of becoming a rapper. The boy was fond of basketball and dreamed of getting into the NBA someday.

Lamar was 9 years old when his father brought him to the shooting of the video for 2Pac and Dr. Dre, who starred on the hit song "California Love", which was heard everywhere at the time. This event made an indelible impression on Kendrick, and later suggested the idea of ​​becoming a rapper too. Even the murder of Tupac on September 7 of the same year did not stop the boy.

By the age of 12, the boy managed to collect a serious music library, in which a special place was allocated to the works of 2Pac, The Notorious BIG, Mos Def, Eminem, Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg, Nas and DMX. Their works influenced the formation of Kendrick's musical taste, as well as his life principles and priorities.

In the 7th grade, an English teacher awakened in Lamar a love of poetry, he began to succeed in making rhymes, using interesting metaphors and epithets. The boy devoted all his time to writing, and his parents thought that he was doing his homework. Once the father found his poems, and it turned out that their son knows how to swear talentedly.

Despite his passion for rap and even problems with the law, Lamar graduated from school with honors, then he said more than once in interviews: he regrets that he never went to college. He had the opportunity.

In 2003, the guy released his debut mixtape "Hubcity threat: Minor of the Year". Kendrick's first creative pseudonym was K-Dot (derived from the first and last name). A small company, Konkrete Jungle Muzik, volunteered to help spread Lamar's debut work.

In 2007, K-Dot released a second compilation, "Training Day", named after the film of the same name. Two more years later, a third mixtape called "C4" was released. However, this disc was not very popular among listeners. Then the performer decides to carry out a kind of rebranding, which resulted in "The Kendrick Lamar EP", released in December 2009.

Actually, the release of "The Kendrick Lamar EP" was the beginning of the professional career of a performer. The success of the mini-album has drawn attention to Kendrick from the staff of the label "Top Dawg Entertainment". Lamar's first TDE project was the "Overly Dedicated" mixtape, released on September 23, 2010. Selected tracks from this mixtape are featured on Lamar's 2010 tour with Tech N9ne and Jay Rock.

However, the following year Kendrick terminated his contract with Top Dawg Entertainment and released his full-length debut studio album, Section 80, on July 2. By this time, Lamar had collaborated with Lil Wayne, Busta Rhymes, The Game and Snoop Dogg, and the XXL edition named him among the promising newcomers of the year.

In 2012, Kendrick signed a new contract with Aftermath (a subsidiary of Inters cope). On this label, the rapper's second studio album, “Good Kid. MAAD City ". It was a success and even went platinum, and the video for the song "Swimming Pools" was shown on all music TV channels.

The tour where Good Kid was presented. MAAD City, ”kicked off immediately after Lamar returned from the Drake tour, where Kendrick, 2 Chainz and ASAP Rocky were opening acts.

In 2013, Lamar released collaborations with Lady Gaga, Kanye West, Big Sean and other artists, and also wrote the soundtrack for the next part of the game "Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon".

The following year, Kendrick continued to record duets with other artists, appeared on Jimmy Fallon's late night show and began collaborating with Reebok.

On March 15, 2015, the rapper released the highly anticipated third album, titled "To Pimp a Batterfly". This work by Kendrick was unanimously named the best album of the year by the Rolling Stones and The New York Times. In the same year, the 57th Grammy Awards ceremony took place, in which Lamar received 11 nominations. Only Michael Jackson received more than him at a time.

Also in 2015, the rapper starred in the video for Taylor Swift, with whom they recorded a joint song "Bad Blood", and in the feature film "Straight from Compton" (in the Russian-speaking environment it was called "Voice of the Streets"), dedicated to the legendary group "NWA".

The next year was marked by more collaborations (like the track "The Greatest", recorded with Sia) and the release of "Untitled Unmastered" - an album consisting of demos not included in "To Pimp a Batterfly". In the same year, Time magazine included the rapper in the list of 100 most influential people of the year.

On April 14, 2017, the guy released his fourth album - "DAMN". A new sound at the junction of genres, a strong emphasis on the gospel theme, as well as the previous directness and raising acute social topics had an effect - the album went off. The involvement of third-party performers, including Rihanna, Zacari and the U2 collective, also contributed to the popularity of the compositions.

The track "Humble" became the leader of the charts and charts, for which a clip was released on March 30, 2017, which is the quintessence of the album.

DAMN was voted Best Rap Album in early 2018 at the Grammy Awards.

The musician does not like to advertise his personal life, but still occasionally he appeared in public with a girl. Later, the media found out that her name is Whitney Alford.

In 2015, the rapper announced their engagement and announced that he and Whitney attended the same school. Kendrick claims that Alford has been with him "from the start." And she gives him all kinds of support, without the girl he would have given up long ago.

There is a stereotype that musicians performing music in this genre are rather frivolous individuals. Hundreds of female fans are constantly circling around them; for some rappers, life partners change almost every month. But Lamar is not one of those. He is strikingly indifferent to other women. There is only one room in his life - for Whitney Alford. True, it is still unknown whether the wedding took place and whether the girl became his official wife. But one way or another, they are happy together.

Despite the popularization of social media, Kendrick prefers good old-fashioned live communication. But he could not get away from progress. So, after all, he does have pages on Instagram and Twitter. True, according to Lamar, his agents are leading them for him. Plus, he admits that he is not at all friendly with gadgets, he constantly loses his mobile phone while traveling.

In order to somehow relax and unwind from performances, the musician often visits the sports grounds of his hometown, where he conducts trainings with friends from childhood. Sports are an integral part of Kendrick's life. This largely explains his good physical shape (height 168 cm, weight 67 kg), as well as endurance, which is very helpful for Lamar at many hours of concerts.

In February 2018, the premiere of the film "Black Panther" took place, the soundtrack for which was produced by Kendrick Lamar. The Weeknd, SZA, Khalid and other American musicians also contributed to the album. Shortly after the film's premiere, Lamar and SZA presented a video for the song "All The Stars".

The rapper is known to be involved in charity work. For example, when Black Panther was breaking box office records in the United States, the guy decided to make sure that as many children as possible watched the film, regardless of their financial situation.

Lamar bought out five 1000-seat screenings in Los Angeles cinemas so that children from poor families could watch Black Panther for free. To some extent, this picture breaks stereotypes, because this is the first Marvel film about a black superhero.

And in April there was a real sensation in the music world. For the first time in the history of the Pulitzer Prize, the prestigious American prize for literature, journalism, music and theater, a rapper has won. Kendrick Lamar has been awarded for his fourth studio album, DAMN. Until this year, the prize was awarded only to authors and performers of jazz and classical works.

This creation of Lamar was called the most religious in his work, since each of the 14 tracks contains references to Scripture. The album also reflects the complexity of African American life.

By the way, Kendrick Lamar adopted Christianity after the death of a close friend. And he often notes in interviews that it was thanks to God that he managed to become famous and "tie" with a criminal past.

In May 2018, at the Hangout Fest, which was headlined by the musician, there was a scandal. By tradition, the rapper invited a fan to the stage to perform the hit "MAAD City". But it all ended extremely sadly for the fan.

The fact that at the beginning of the track to pronounce the word «n-word» (euphemism is used instead of the incorrect «nigger» - «negro»). But the girl, who knew the original text of the composition by heart, began to sing that way. Kendrick immediately interrupted the performance and accused her of racism. The audience booed the girl. The fan apologized for a long time, in the end they still finished the song together. But the incident got publicity on the Web, the rapper's fans began to rudely discuss the girl and leave unpleasant statements about her. For this reason, she had to retire from all social networks.

2003 - "Hub city threat: Minor of the Year" 2007 - "Training Day" 2009 - "C4" 2009 - "The Kendrick Lamar EP" 2010 - "Overly Dedicated" 2011 - "Section 80" 2012 - "Good Kid. MAAD City "2015 -" To Pimp a Batterfly "2016 -" Untitled Unmastered "2017 -" DAMN "

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Kendrick Lamar Net Worth 2021

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Kendrick Lamar Net Worth 2019

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Kendrick Lamar Net Worth 2017

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