Biography
Kendrick Lamar is an American hip-hop performer with a successful career. He became the first rapper in the history, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Many musicians believe that Lamar is "New King of the West Coast".Childhood and youth
The future rap artist was born in the city of Compton (California), where his parents moved from Chicago (Illinois). This event occurred on June 17, 1987.
The boy received his name in honor of the Vocalist of the group "The Tempation" Eddie Kendrix. When Kendrick has grown, went to study at Centennial High School. By the way, in the same school at one time he studied a popular Rapper Dr. DRE. Subsequently, his work influenced the future of the boy.
Kendrick Lamar Dakworth was brought up in a large family in a rather unfavorable area. For the first time he witnessed the murder when he was 5 years old. Then the young narcodyiler shot a guy near the house of Lamar's family.
As a child, he stuttering, so there was no thoughts to become a rapper. The boy was fond of basketball dreamed ever to get into NBA.
Lamar was 9 years old when his father led him to shoot a video 2RAC and Dr. DRE, who was filmed on the hit song "California Love", while sounding everywhere. This event made an indelible impression on Kendrick, and later brought to the thought, too, become a rapper. Did not stop the boy even the murder of Tupaka, which occurred on September 7 of the same year.
By the age of 12, the boy managed to collect a serious phonet, in which the special place was allocated by the work of 2rc, the notorious B.i.g., Mos Def, Eminem, Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg, NAS and DMX. Their works affected the formation of the musical taste of Kendrick, as well as his life principles and priorities.
In the 7th grade, the English teacher awakened the love of poetry in Lamar, he began to get a rhyme, using interesting metaphors and epithets. The boy devoted all his time to writing, and his parents thought he was doing homework. One day, his father found his poems, and it turned out that their son is able to be talented.
Despite the passion for rap and even problems with the law, the Lamar school finished with honors, then he said repeatedly in an interview: he regretted that he did not go to the college. The opportunity for him was.
Music
In 2003, the guy produces his debut mixture "Hubcity Threat: Minor of the Year". The first creative pseudonym of Kendrik becomes k-dot (derived from the name and surname). A small company "Konkrete Jungle Muzik" volunteered with the spread of the debut work of Lamar.
In 2007, K-Dot produces a second collection - "Training Day", named after the movie of the same name. After another two years, the third mixture called "C4". However, the listeners did not use this disc on particular popularity. Then the performer decides to hold a peculiar rebranding, which took place in the "The Kendrick Lamar Ep", which came out in December 2009.
Actually, the exit "The Kendrick Lamar Ep" and became the beginning of the professional path of the performer. The success of the mini-album made paying attention to the Kendrick staff of the Top Dawg Entertainment label. The first project created by Lamar on TDE was the "Overly Dedicated" mixture, released on September 23, 2010. Separate tracks from this mixtape sound in the tour, which in 2010 Lamar spent with Tech N9ne and Jay Rock.
However, next year, Kendrick terminates a contract with Top Dawg Entertainment and on July 2 produces its full-fledged debut studio album "Section 80". By this time, Lamar managed to rise with Lil Wayne, Busta Rhymes, The Game and Snoop Dogg, and the Edition of XXL mentioned him among the promising newcomers of the year.
In 2012, the new contract of Kendrik was concluded - with "Aftermath" (subsidiary "Inters Cope"). On this label, the second Studio Album Rapper is "Good Kid. M.A.A.D. City. " He had a success and even received the title of platinum, and the video for the song "Swimming Pools" was twisted for all musical TV channels.
The tour of which was presented "Good Kid. M.A.A.D. City, "began immediately after the return of Lamar from the Tour" Drake ", in which Kendrick, 2 Chainz and Asap Rocky performed on heating.
In 2013, Lamar issues collaboration with Lady Gaga, Kanye West, Big Sean and other performers, and also writes a soundtrack for the next part of the game "Tom Clancy`s Ghost Recon".
The following year, Kendrick continued to record duets with other performers, lit up at the evening show Jimmy Fallon and began to cooperate with Reebok.
March 15, 2015 Rapper released the long-awaited third album called "to Pimp a Batterfly". This work of Kendrik editions "ROLLING STONES" and "The New York Times" unanimously ordered the best album of the year. In the same year, the 57th Gremmy awards ceremony took place, on which Lamar received 11 nominations. I received only Michael Jackson more than once.
Also in 2015, the rapper starred in the video Taylor Swift, with which they recorded the joint composition "Bad Blood", and in the art film "straight from Compton" (in the Russian-speaking environment, was called "Voice of Streets"), dedicated to the legendary group N.W.a.
The next year was marked by the next collaborations (like the track "The Greatest" recorded with SIA) and the "Untitled unmastered" exit - an album consisting of demos that did not enter into "to Pimp a Batterfly". In the same year, Time magazine included RPPER into a list of 100 influential people of the year.
On April 14, 2017, the guy released his fourth record - "Damn". A new sound at the junction of genres, a strong emphasis in the gospel themes, as well as the former directness and raising witness themes, the effect was driving - the album shot. Participation of third-party performers, among whom Rihanna, Zacari flashed and the team "U2", also contributed to the popularity of compositions.
The leader of the hit parades and charts was the "Humble" track, which was released on March 30, 2017, which is the quintessence of the album.
In early 2018, the Grammy Awards Ceremony "Damn" was recognized as the best rap album.
Personal life
The musician does not like to advertise a personal life, but still occasionally he appeared in public with a girl. Later, the media found out that her Whitney Elford is name.
In 2015, the rapper announced their engagement. It once he said that he studied in the same school with Whitney. Kendrick argues that Elford with him "from the very beginning." And she provides him with all sorts of support, without a girl he has long been surrendered.
There is a stereotype that musicians performing music in this genre, rather frivolous personals. Hundreds of fans are constantly circling around them, some rappers of life companions change almost every month. But Lamar is not from such. It is amazingly indifferent to other women. In his life there is a place only for one - for Whitney Elford. True, it is still unknown, whether the wedding took place and whether the girl became his official wife. But, one way or another, they are happy together.
Despite the popularization of social networks, Kendrick prefers old good living communication. But the progress did not succeed. So all the same page in "Instagram" and "Twitter" he has. True, as Lamar says, his agents lead them for him. Plus, he admits that he is not entirely friendly with gadgets, constantly in the tour relief loses his mobile phone.
In order to somehow relax and dispel from the speeches, the musician often visits the playgrounds of the hometown, where he spends training with friends from childhood. Sports - an integral part of the life of Kendrik. This is largely explained by its good physical form (height of 168 cm, weight 67 kg), as well as endurance, very reinforcing Lamar on many hours of concerts.
Kendrick Lamar now
In February 2018, the premiere of the film "Black Panther" took place, the soundtrack to which Kendrick Lamar was delighted. Also above the album, the Weeknd, Sza, Khalid and other American musicians worked. Soon after the premiere of the painting Lamer and SZA introduced the clip to the song "All The Stars".
It is known that Rapper is engaged in charity. For example, when the "black panther" beat cash records in the United States, the guy decided to take care that as many children could have looked at the film, regardless of their financial position.
Lamar bought five sessions for 1000 places in Los Angeles cinemas, so that the children from poor families watched the "Black Panther" for free. To some extent, this picture breaks stereotypes, because this is the first Marvel film about black superhero.
And in April, a real furyor happened in the musical world. For the first time in the history of the Pulitzer Prize - a prestigious American Prize in the field of literature, journalism, music and theater - the laureate became a rapper. Kendrick Lamar was awarded for his fourth studio album "Damn". Prior to this year, the award was presented only to authors and performers of jazz and classical works.
This creation of Lamar was called the most religious in his work, since each of the 14 tracks contain references to the Holy Scriptures. And the album reflects the complexity of the life of African Americans.
By the way, Christianity Kendrick Lamar accepted after the death of a close friend. And often in the interview notes that just because of God he managed to become famous and "tie" with criminal past.
In May 2018, at the Hangout Fest Festival, the headline was the musician, the scandal happened. By tradition, the rapper invited a fan on the scene for the performance of the Hita "M.A.A.D City". But everything ended for fans is extremely sad.
Дело в том, что в начале трека произносится слово «n-word» (эвфемизм, употребляемый вместо некорректного «nigger» – «негр»). But the girl, who knew the original text of the composition, began to sing just like this. Kendrick immediately interrupted the performance and accused her in racism. The hall walked the girl. Fan apolocious for a long time, in the end, they still dreamed the song together. But the incident was published in the network, rapper fans began to roughly discuss the girl and leave an impartial statement in her address. For this reason, she had to retire from all social networks.
Discography
- 2003 - "Hub City Threat: Minor of the Year"
- 2007 - "TRAINING DAY"
- 2009 - "C4"
- 2009 - "The Kendrick Lamar EP"
- 2010 - "Overly Dedicated"
- 2011 - "Section 80"
- 2012 - "Good Kid. M.A.A.D. City »
- 2015 - "To Pimp A Batterfly"
- 2016 - "Untitled UNMASTERED"
- 2017 - "Damn"