Kendrick Lamar

Kendrick Lamar was born on June 17, 1987. Kendrick Lamar is also known as Kendrick Lamar Duckworth is an American singer and rapper. He has received many recognition and awards for his great talents of rapping and songwriting. He is very well known for his collaboration with Snoop Dogg Snoop Dogg took birth as Calvin Cordozar Broadus, >> Read More... , The Game, Lil Wayne Lil Wayne, whose actual name is Dwayne Michael Car >> Read More... and Busta Rhymes.

He was born in Compton, California. In his childhood, he used to write stories. He used the rough Compton streets in his lyrics as he grew up. He has rapped under the guidance of K-Dot, which made up to the release of popular mixtapes. His perfect work brought him to the attention of Dr. Dre, a hip-hop super-producer. He debuts with the major-label recording, m.A.A.d city. The album was released to great recognition and impressive sales with a great amount of promotion. He continued to receive recognition for his To Pimp a Butterfly album which even earned him 2015 Grammy Award.

His parents migrated to Compton from Chicago to escape from the city's bad culture, though his father had been associated with various Gangster gang. Because of his father's involvement in the gangs, he grew up around rough street activity. He was a very obedient student in school who loved writing, poems, and first stories, and then lyrics.

Though his family was influenced in the rough gangs Lamar is very soft-spoken, and a very good observer. He is greatly influenced by K-Dot and started his career as a rapper. In 2003 he gave his first mixtape Youngest Head Nigga in Charge when he was 16 years old.

The project was a huge hit and he got an opportunity to record with the Top Dawg Entertainment. His other release after that were Training Day Training day is an American TV show aired on CBS’ >> Read More... in 2005 and C4 in 2009. Day by day his popularity increased and he got opportunities to work with rappers like Ab-Soul, Schoolboy Q. Lamar, and Jay Rock. These performers all together even formed their own rap collective, named Black Hippy.

In 2010 he left the K-Dot name and started delivering songs on using his own name. He fourth mixtape was Overly Dedicated. In the same year, he released his independent album Titled Section.80 under the banner of Top Dawg Entertainment. The album was exclusively released on iTunes.

He has done recording with many rappers and singers like The Game, Young Jeezy, Busta Rhymes, Talib Kweli, and Lil Wayne. Dr. Dre, one of the most respected and looked up hip-hop producers, was very much influenced by him and became his mentor and helped him in business and music.

In October 2012, Lamar's highly awaited debut album, m.A.A.d city, was released and received a lot of appreciation. Hit singles like Poetic Justice and Swimming Pools (Drank), gave him great appreciation from the audience and he even appeared on much American television like Late Night With Jimmy Fallon He was born on 19 September 1974. He is 42 years o >> Read More... , Saturday Night Live Saturday Night Live or popularly called as NBC&#39 >> Read More... , Late Night With David Letterman for the promotion of the album. This increased his fan following, not only among the hard-core hip-hop followers but also among many college students.

In 2012 he received the Hottest MC award by MTV leaving behind many known rappers like Kanye West Kanye West is a Hollywood singer, hip hop recordin >> Read More... , Jay-Z, and Lil Wayne. He was appreciated by the critics for penning down the lyrics of Control by Big Sean Born in Santa Monica, California on March 25, 1988 >> Read More... . In 2015, Lamar released his album, To Pimp a Butterfly, along with Snoop Dogg, Pharrell Williams, Bilal, and others. The album was another highly appreciated one known for its mixture of community politics, vulnerability, and bravura. Lamar was nominated continuously for 11 Grammys and he won his first award in 2016, for Best Rap Album.

In the same year, he released Alright and The Blacker the Berry which was based on live jazz, and traditional African dance. The reference was drawn to the death, Trayvon Martin.