https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/16/17244222/kendrick-lamar-pulitzer-first-non-classical-non-jazz-artist
Kendrick Lamar just won a Pulitzer Prize
Kendrick Lamar has become the first non-classical, non-jazz artist to win the Pulitzer Prize for music for his 2017 album DAMN.
The prize listing describes Lamar’s record, which documents the complexities of growing up in his hometown of Compton, as “a virtuosic song collection unified by its vernacular authenticity and rhythmic dynamism that offers affecting vignettes capturing the complexity of modern African-American life.”