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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

KENDRICK LAMAR: (Rapping) I got - I got - I got - I got loyalty, got royalty inside my DNA, quarter piece, got war and peace inside my DNA. NOEL KING, HOST: Yesterday, Kendrick Lamar won a Pulitzer ...

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.

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 ...