Kendrick Lamar will go back to the Tremendous Bowl degree on Sunday (Feb. 9), however this time, the Compton local is slated to headline the Tremendous Bowl LIX Halftime Display in New Orleans.
Between the Drake combat, arrival of GNX and “No longer Like Us” taking house 5 Grammy Awards — together with music of the 12 months and document of the 12 months — it’s moderately most likely been essentially the most adorned 10-month stretch of Lamar’s profession.
As detailed on this episode of Billboard Explains, the 37-year-old West Coast hip-hop titan has lengthy laid the basis, with many years of labor honing his craft and refining his flows to get so far on the best of the rap meals chain.
Born in 1987, Kendrick became interested in poetry and launched his first mixtape as a young person in 2003 titled Y.H.N.I.C. (Hub Town Risk: Minor of the 12 months) below his preliminary K-Dot alias.
It wasn’t till his fourth mixtape, Overly Devoted, that he made his Billboard chart debut in 2010 and adjusted his rap identify to Kendrick Lamar.
Following his Billboard 200 debut (No. 113) with Phase.80 in 2011, Lamar unleashed his main label studio album below Best Dawg Leisure/Interscope Data when Just right Child, M.A.A.D Town arrived in October 2012 and debuted at No. 2 at the all-genre albums chart.
The cinematic LP earned Kendrick seven Grammy nominations and used to be led by means of singles reminiscent of “Swimming Swimming pools (Drank),” which used to be his Billboard Sizzling 100 debut, attaining the highest 20.
To Pimp a Butterfly noticed Lamar proceed to lift his profile when he scored his first Billboard 200 chart-topper in 2015. Two years later, DAMN. hit the streets and made historical past as K. Dot changed into the primary artist to win the Pulitzer Prize for a hip-hop album.
He curated the Black Panther soundtrack in 2018, and Kendrick returned in 2022 following a hiatus with the poignant Mr. Morale & The Giant Steppers.
2024 proved to be his greatest 12 months but, as his Drake diss “No longer Like Us” crowned the Sizzling 100, and he spun the block prior to the 12 months ended with the discharge of GNX, which produced the No. 1 “Squabble Up” and occupied all of the Sizzling 100’s best 5.
Discover extra about Lamar’s upward thrust within the video above.
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