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.

Hip-hop music has never been more canonized and revered than it is today. With the recent explosion of trap and mumble rap, as well as the abundance of fantastic new releases by veterans and newcomers ...

A year ago, shock waves rippled through the arts world when the Pulitzer Prize in Music, almost always bestowed on a classical composer, was awarded to Kendrick Lamar’s album “DAMN.” “I never thought ...

Kendrick Lamar has created the perfect fusion of politics and hip hop, and on Monday he got a Pulitzer Prize -- and of course he did. In a time when hip hop is supersaturated with vapid pop hits and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. First a Pulitzer and now this. Kendrick Lamar has done what no other rap artist has: With his four wins tonight, the “luther” ...

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, ...