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Kendrick Lamar

Kendrick Lamar Duckworth (born June 17, 1987) is an American rapper from Compton, California. Lamar embarked on his musical career as a teenager under the moniker K-Dot, releasing a mixtape that garnered local attention and led to his signing with Carson-based independent record label Top Dawg Entertainment (TDE). Lamar began to gain major recognition in 2010 after his first retail release, Overly Dedicated. The following year, he released the independent album Section.80, which included Lamar's debut single, "HiiiPoWeR". By that time, he had collaborated with several prominent artists in the hip hop industry, including The Game, Snoop Dogg, and Busta Rhymes.

Lamar secured a recording contract with Aftermath and Interscope Records in 2012. His major-label debut album, good kid, m.A.A.d city, was released in October 2012 to critical sucess. The record contained the top 40 singles "Swimming Pools (Drank)", "Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe", and "Poetic Justice", and debuted at number two on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart; it was later certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Preceded by the Grammy Award-winning single "i", Lamar released his third studio album To Pimp a Butterfly in 2015 to universal acclaim. The album incorporated elements of free jazz, funk, soul, and spoken word, and debuted atop the charts in the U.S. and the UK. In 2016, Lamar released untitled unmastered., a collection of unreleased demos that originated during the recording sessions for Butterfly.

Lamar has received wide acclaim and a number of accolades over the course of his career, including seven Grammy Awards. In early 2013, MTV named Lamar the No. 1 "Hottest MC in the Game" on their annual list. Aside from his solo career, Lamar is also known as a member of the West Coast hip hop supergroup Black Hippy, alongside his TDE labelmates and fellow South Los Angeles-based rappers Ab-Soul, Jay Rock and Schoolboy Q.

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Genres hip hop conscious jazzy hip-hop
Top release To Pimp a Butterfly

Albums

  1. Training Day
    2006
  2. No Sleep 'Til NYC
    2008
  3. C4
    2009
  4. Overly Dedicated
    2010
  5. Compton State of Mind
    2011
  6. 4.0
    Section.80
    2011
  7. The Recipe
    2012
  8. Ever Heard of Section 80
    2012
  9. 5.0
    good kid, m.A.A.d city
    2012
  10. Welcome to Class 2014
    2013
  11. Kendrication
    2013
  12. 6.0
    To Pimp a Butterfly
    2015
  13. Straight Outta Compton
    2015

Other releases

  1. HiiiPoWeR
    2011
  2. My People
    2011
  3. Westside, Right On Time
    2012
  4. War is My Love
    2012
  5. Cartoon & Cereal
    2012
  6. The Recipe
    2012
  7. B-Boyz
    2012
  8. Swimming Pools (Drank)
    2012
  9. Westside, Right On Time
    2012
  10. F**kin' Problems
    2012
  11. Let Us Move On (prod. Jeff Bhasker and Plain Pat)
    2012
  12. Bad Blood
    2015
  13. untitled unmastered.
    2016
  14. Freedom
    2016
  15. Pray for Me
    2018
  16. Pray for Me (Ramirez & Rakurs remix)
    2018
  17. AMERICA HAS A PROBLEM
    2023