Kendrick Lamar breaks record, wins Pulitzer Prize
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rapper kendrick lamar has broken the records by winning the pulitzer prize for music for his album1 he becomes the first non-classical or jazz artist to receive the honour reported1 the pulitzer board announced lamars selection on mondaycalling the 2017 lpa virtuosic song collection unified by its vernacular authenticity and rhythmic dynamism that offers affecting vignettes capturing the complexity of modern african american life1 last august lamar spoke toabout his creative mindset behindthe initial goal was to make a hybrid of my first two commercial albums he said1 that was our total focus how to do that sonically lyrically through melody and it came out exactly how i heard it in my head. its all pieces of me. my musicality has been driving me since i was four years old. its just pieces of me man and how i execute it is the ultimate challenge. going fromtothat shit could have crashed and burned if it wasnt executed right. so i had to be real careful on my subject matter and how i weave in and out of the topics where it still organically feels like me1 last year the nobel prize in literature also crossed over into mainstream pop musicawarding their prestigious medal to bob dylan. the singer received a 900000 prize during a small private ceremony in stockholm after submitting his speech to the swedish academy1