But what is it exactly that is so powerful about his music and. Kendrick Lamar is unique because he makes music that is not commercial, but is still widely embraced. Female rapper Azealia Banks once characterised his broad accessibility as ‘playing that non-threatening black man sh*t’. His intellectual weight even appeals to academically trained music critics. In a time when hip-hop is often dominated by vibe, swag and personality and mainly describes money, women and violence, Lamar’s lyrics are deep and meaningful. While Barack Obama described Kanye West as a ‘jackass’, he and Lamar share a warm friendship. He is not as aggressive as Tupac and has no past as a drug dealer like Notorious B.I.G. the restĪvoiding drugs, and rarely drinking, ‘Kong Fu Kenny’ is quite uncontroversial compared to his fellow rappers. In the words of Pharrell Williams, Kendrick has become the “ Bob Dylan of our time”. In 2016, Time Magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people of the year. What’s more is that his lyrics are used as battle slogans and his music can easily be called the anthem of the Black Lives Matter protests.
Those are still only his musical achievements. He is a popular headliner at festivals like Coachella and this summer he will also be performing at Lowlands. Dre and U2, has sold millions of albums worldwide and his music is streamed even more frequently than that. Lamar has worked with artists like Beyoncé, Dr. He has also received no less than 29 Grammy nominations, 9 of which were in the most prestigious and cross-over ‘Big five categories’, winning 11 in total. As of today, Lamar has four studio albums and the soundtrack of Black Panther to his name. N.W.A., Tupac, Eminem and Jay-Z were great sources of inspiration for Lamar and after getting straight A’s for his poems in high school, he had all he needed to begin rapping. With raw, honest lyrics they described life in the ghetto and their narrations brought awareness both to their circumstances and the general emancipation of the African-American minority in the United States. Dre, Eazy-E and Ice Cube (who are also ‘ Straight Outta Compton’) put this new subgenre on the map internationally after creating the collective N.W.A. He grew up in the breeding ground of Westcoast gangstarap.
Kendrick Lamar was born in 1987 in Compton, one of the most violent suburbs of Los Angeles. The messages he delivers through his music make that very clear.Īre you going to his performance in the Ziggo Dome tomorrow and do you want to know more about his story? Or do you secretly have no idea what makes him so special? We got to the bottom of it! This is Kendrick Lamar Whether that is a justified title for Kendrick Lamar may be a matter of taste, but he’s without a doubt the rapper with a huge amount of impact and influence. Rolling Stone Magazine named him ‘The Greatest Rapper Alive’ after his latest studio album DAMN.
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