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Kendrick Lamar
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Grammy Award for Best Rap Song
BET Award for Best New Artist
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9.9/10
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🎧 5,262,904 listeners
▶ 1,066,243,677 plays
Wikipedia
Kendrick Lamar Duckworth (born June 17, 1987) is an American rapper and songwriter. Rooted in West Coast hip-hop, his music features conscious, introspective lyrics, with political criticism and social commentary concerning African-American culture. Music journalists have listed Lamar among the greatest rappers of all time. In 2018, he became the first musician outside of the classical and jazz genres to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Music.
Born and raised in Compton, California, Lamar began releasing music under the stage name K.Dot in high school. He signed with Top Dawg Entertainment (TDE) in 2005 and co-founded the hip hop supergroup Black Hippy. His alternative rap debut album, Section.80, led to a joint contract with Dr. Dre's Aftermath Entertainment and Interscope Records. He rose to stardom with his gangsta rap–influenced second album Good Kid, M.A.A.D City (2012), which became the longest-charting hip hop studio album on the Billboard 200 and was named the greatest concept album of all time by Rolling Stone. In 2015, he had his first Billboard Hot 100 number-one single, with the remix of Taylor Swift's "Bad Blood", and released his first of five consecutive number-one albums on the Billboard 200, To Pimp a Butterfly, which infused hip-hop with historical African-American music genres such as jazz, funk, and soul.
Lamar's critical and commercial success continued with his R&B and pop-leaning fourth album Damn (2017), featuring his second US number-one single, "Humble". He contributed to the soundtrack of the 2018 film Black Panther, earning a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "All the Stars". His fifth album, Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers (2022), delved into introspection and concluded his tenure with TDE and Aftermath. In 2024, his highly publicized feud with Drake and sixth album GNX spawned the Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles "Like That", "Not Like Us", "Squabble Up", and "Luther". "Not Like Us" won five Grammy Awards, including Song of the Year and Record of the Year, while "Luther" also won the latter and became his longest-charting number-one song in the US, at 13 weeks.
Lamar's accolades include 27 Grammy Awards—the most for a rapper—2 Primetime Emmy Awards, a Brit Award, 5 American Music Awards, 7 Billboard Music Awards, 11 MTV Video Music Awards and a record 37 BET Hip Hop Awards. Time listed him as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2016. Three of his works were included in Rolling Stone's 2020 revision of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time". In 2025, he headlined the most-watched Super Bowl halftime show in history, while his Grand National Tour with SZA became the highest-grossing co-headlining tour of all time. Outside of music, Lamar co-founded the creative company PGLang and ventured into film with his longtime creative partner, Dave Free.
🤝 Collaborations (106)
Genius ↗MusicBrainz credits combined with Genius song credits from top 15 tracks
Kendrick Lamar has 106 credited collaborators on IMUDB — 11 featured, 14 producer, 3 writer, 2 bandmates, 18 production & engineering, 3 instrumentalists, 55 other. Active 1987–present.
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🎵 Top Tracks popularity ranked · Genius
⭐ Known For
DAMN.
▶ 210,327,406
good kid, m.A.A.d city
▶ 71,344,359
Black Panther the Album Music From and Inspired By
▶ 55,915,372
To Pimp a Butterfly
▶ 147,952,720
GNX
▶ 129,420,809
good kid, m.A.A.d city (Deluxe)
▶ 99,017,269
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The Kendrick Archives
2026
everybody sensitive
2026
Grand National Tour: Live from Inglewood, California
2025
GNX
2024
The Pop Out: Ken & Friends
2024
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