Kendrick Lamar Duckworth was born June 17, 1987 in Compton, California to teen parents who originated from Chicago, Illinois. The rapper is 5’6 and weighs 155 pounds. Kendrick’s love affair with hip hop started in a young age after viewing Tupac Shukar’s video for California Love. Unbeknownst to the eight-year old Lamar, Tupac would greatly affect the MC’s future profession. Despite growing up to the rough streets of Compton, Kendrick kept a 4.0 GPA at Centennial High School and in 2003, at only sixteen years old, released his first mix tape, under the alias K Dot.
For another seven years, Lamar released numerous mix tapes, collaborated with leading hip-hop artists and churned out two studio albums, Too Dedicated (2010) and Section.80 (2011), each record garnering reasonable success.
In the year 2012, Kendrick attained a new degree of stardom together with his launch of his third studio album, good kid, m.A.A.d city, which made the hits, “Swimming Pools (Drank)” and “B*tch, do not Kill My Vibe” and would become accredited platinum. It was likewise declared that Lamar could function as accompanying act on Kanye West’s much anticipated 2013 “Yeezus Tour.” In his GQ interview, Kendrick declared his plans to begin recording a brand new record in January 2014.
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Kenny Duckworth, Paula Oliver, Las Vegas, NV, United States, m.A.A.d city, Bitch, Don?'t Kill My Vibe, Alright
Partner
Whitney Alford
Nicknames
Kendrick Lamar Duckworth , K.Dot
Awards
Grammy Award for Best Rap Album, BET Hip Hop Award for Best Lyricist of the Year, Grammy Award for Best Rap Song, MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year, Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance, Grammy Award for Best Music Video, Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration, MTV Video Music Award...
Music Groups
Black Hippy
Nominations
Grammy Award for Album of the Year, Grammy Award for Song of the Year, Grammy Award for Best New Artist, MTV Video Music Award for Best Hip-Hop Video, Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording, Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance, Grammy Award for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance, MTV Video Music Award ...
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Fact
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His third album "To Pimp A Butterfly" is the highest rated rap album in Metacritic and the 4th highest ranked album of all time with a score of 96/100.
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His mother gave him the name "Kendrick" in honor of singer "Eddie Kendricks".
3
2Pac, The Notorious B.I.G, Eminem, Jay-Z and Nas are his 5 favorite artists.
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Intern
2015/I
performer: "i" / writer: "i"
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
TV Series performer - 1 episode
Todd's Pop Song Reviews
2014-2015
TV Series performer - 3 episodes
Ballers
2015
TV Series performer - 1 episode
BET Awards 2015
2015
TV Movie performer: "Alright" / writer: "Alright"
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TV Series writer - 4 episodes, 2014 - 2015 performer - 1 episode, 2014 lyrics - 1 episode, 2014
Taylor Swift: Bad Blood
2015
Video short performer: "Bad Blood" / writer: "Bad Blood"
The Brit Awards 2015
2015
TV Special writer: "All Day"
Rap Critic Reviews
2012-2015
TV Series performer - 4 episodes
The Colbert Report
2014
TV Series performer - 1 episode
Saturday Night Live
TV Series performer - 3 episodes, 2013 - 2014 writer - 3 episodes, 2013 - 2014
Waterloo Road
2014
TV Series performer - 1 episode
Kendrick Lamar: I
2014
Video short performer: "I" / writer: "I"
Red Band Society
2014
TV Series performer - 1 episode
No Good Deed
2014/I
performer: "Let Us Move On" / writer: "Let Us Move On"
$14 Million
