Has achieved double platinum in the US, which is Kendrick Lamar's greatest commercial success to date. Like its predecessors, the album appeared at the top or at least in the top 5 of numerous best lists of the year. Once again, Lamar received many positive reviews. The fourth studio album Damn was released on Ap. Humble was Lamar's first number one hit in the US, making it his most successful single to date. A week later, the first single from his upcoming album, Humble, was released, the music video of which reached 30 million views in just one week. On March 23, 2017, the song The Heart Part 4 was released (initially exclusively on Apple Music), with which he announced his new album. He was nominated in a total of eleven different categories. At the Grammy Awards 2016 he received a total of four awards: for the best collaboration - rap / singing of the year, for the best rap performance of the year, the best rap album and for the best rap song of the year. It received overwhelming acclaim, especially for its socially critical texts on topics such as racism, police violence, depression and self-love.
His third album, To Pimp a Butterfly, was released on March 16, 2015, a week ahead of schedule. At the Grammy Awards 2015 he received the award for the best rap performance of the year. In the USA it was only moderately successful, but internationally it was Lamar's greatest success to date, with top 40 placements in Great Britain, New Zealand and Denmark. At the 2014 Grammy Awards, Lamar received a total of 7 nominations.Īfter a long break without any own publications, the single i. It received many positive reviews and has been widely referred to as a masterpiece. The album reached number 2 in the USA and was also able to place itself in the charts internationally. Dre, Just Blaze, Pharrell Williams, Hit-Boy, Scoop DeVille and T-Minus. It contains, among other things, productions by Dr. On October 22, 2012, his second studio album, Good Kid, Maad City was released. Dre, Emeli Sandé, Wiz Khalifa, Eminem, The Game, Drake, Busta Rhymes, Lady Gaga, SZA and Tech N9ne together. In 2011, his album Section.80, which was released exclusively on iTunes, became one of the most successful hip-hop albums of the year. In 2009 he joined forces with his rap colleagues and friends Schoolboy Q, Jay Rock and Ab-Soul to form the hip-hop group Black Hippy, all of whom were signed to the Top Dawg Entertainment label, but did not record an album for the time being.įor the first time, after the release of the mixtape Overly Dedicated in 2010, the scene moved into focus. Dre, with whom he would later work several times. At the Centennial High School, which Lamar attended, André Romell Young - alias Dr. Dre and Tupac Shakur, which made him dig deeper into rap. He himself never became a member of any gang.Īt the age of nine, Lamar was watching the video footage for California Love, a Dr.
Some of his friends belonged to both the Bloods and the competing Crips. The neighborhood he grew up in, like all of Compton, was characterized by gang violence. Lamar spent his childhood in precarious circumstances as a young boy he learned that his father continued to work “on the street” to take care of the small family, and some of his maternal uncles were Compton Crips. His mother found a job at McDonald's and his father worked at KFC, but the couple found it difficult to gain a foothold in the new area. Kendrick Lamar's parents moved to Compton before he was born because his father, Kenny Duckworth, wanted to escape his Chicago past with the notorious street gang gangster Disciples.