Kendrick Duckworth Lamar

He is just 27 and still will achieve a lot in career till now he has got two noteworthy awards. He got the MTV Europe music award for Best US act in the year 2012 and the Radio Disney Music awards for Best Music for ‘Bad Things’, this

Essay question: How did society influence the creation of Kendrick Lamar’s album “Good Kid M.A.A.D City”? In this essay i will be discussing how Kendrick Lamar Duckworth was inspired to create his album GOOD KID M.A.A.D CITY. K.Dot a.k.a stage name Kendrick Lamar,is 30 years old and was born on (june 17 1987), Lamar was born in The United States of America in the city of Compton in California.

That money wasn’t enough so he picked up weekend shifts at UPS and a moving company called, " All my Son's. " He realized a few months later that If he was going to make real money he needed to get back into music . He then released his album TRAPSOUL , he blew up instantly. In 2015 he was nominated "Best New Artist," "Best Hip Hop Video," "Best Male Video," "Video Of The Year," and " Top R&B Album." He only Won "Best Male Video, "Best New Artist," and "Top R&B Album."

There may be no bigger name in rap music right now than Chicago's own Chance the Rapper. His third mixtape Coloring Book is now available on all major music streaming platforms (Apple Music, Soundcloud, Spotify, Tidal, etc.) and he is also the first artist EVER to break The Billboard Top 10 Albums chart with streams only. He has burst onto the scene as a "lone wolf" of sorts; refusing to sign to a record label, releasing all of his music for free, and combining rap, jazz, and gospel music more beautifully than anyone we've ever seen in the music industry. To celebrate Lil Chano's recent success let's check out his ten best songs.

Kendrick Lamar’s third studio album, “To Pimp a Butterfly,” sheds light on the struggle of achieving rich and fame and the trials that come with. Rolling Stone and Billboard praised the album awarding it the best album of 2015. The album depicts the difficulties of fame by putting the trials and tribulations on display; the inability for those to adjust to their new lifestyle and the potential temptations that creep in. “To Pimp a Butterfly” has been both a divisive and uniting factor in its emergence in popular culture.

Cultural phenomenon, rapper Kendrick Lamar has embraced a growing minority centered culture in America through his album “To Pimp A butterfly” this album conveys themes of hardship for minorities and cultural uprising. One of the singles on this album “Alright” simply tells black audiences that with faith everything will be alright. He uses the Lyrics “Alls my life I has to fight, nigga .Alls my life I...Hard times like God. Bad trips like: ‘God!’ Nazareth, I 'm fucked up..Homie you fucked up..But if God got us then we gon ' be alright” These lyrics simply tell suppressed minorities that despite hardship there is hope within our communities. . Months prior to the release of Kendrick Lamar’s “Alright” several attacks from white police officers happened in the black community. A common case in this uproar was the “Mike Brown case”. In this case a black man was shot dead after allegedly robbing a local gas station. Kendrick simply responded to these seemingly racial attacks with his album to “Pimp a Butterfly”. To pimp a butterfly simply means to use your influence to the best of its ability to make a meaningful impact. With tracks like “Alright” Kendrick Lamar does just that. The Primary themes and issues conveyed in this song are white supremacy, racism and black uprising

Shortly after his release from his juvenile detention center, Octave made the decision to take his music career seriously and changed his rap name to Kodak Black. “The CEO of Dollaz N Dealz, A.D. Julien, saw a star quality in Kodak Black that he had never seen before. Kodak was wise beyond his years and had the ability to light up a room with his presence. He decided to invest in Kodak Black’s solo career and signed him to the DND label” (Johnson). From 2013-2014, Kodak Black released two mixtapes, Project Baby and Heart of the Projects, which really started his road to famed. It was greatly received by locals in Broward and Miami Dade. In both mixtapes, explains Black expresses his dedication and love of the streets and projects he grew up in. Three songs from Heart of the Projects skyrocketed and started gaining him nationally fame. One of the songs being “Skrt” and Grammy winning recording artist Drake posted a video of himself dancing to the song, which boosted his popularity, even

He grew up in Bridgeport, Chicago and lived his whole

Originally from Marcy Houses housing project in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City,[9] Jay-Z was abandoned by his father Adnes Reeves and shot his brother in the shoulder for stealing his jewelry[10] when he was twelve years old.[11] Jay-Z attended Eli Whitney High School in Brooklyn, along with rapper AZ, until it was closed down. After that he attended George Westinghouse Information Technology High School in Downtown Brooklyn, with fellow rappers The Notorious B.I.G. and Busta Rhymes, and Trenton Central High School in Trenton, New Jersey, but did not graduate.[12] He claims to have been caught up in selling drugs, to which he refers in his music.[11]

Alphonse Capone was born in Brooklyn, New York. He was the son of Gabriel and Teresina Capone who were recent Italian immigrants . They were a poor family of 9 children that came to America looking for a better life. Capone’s father was a barber and his mother was a seamstress. Al Capone went on to become the most infamous gangster in American history. Capone moved out around the time he was in 6th grade to a better home in the outskirts of the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn. Here that he would meet both his future wife Mary Coughlin, and his mob mentor Johnny Torrio. As a former petty thug and bookkeeper Capone brought his street smarts and his expertise with numbers to Torrio’s Chicago operations. Torrio recognized Capone’s skills and

A lot of people who listen to hip-hop know that most artist come from poor rough communities, the person who I’m about to introduce you to is an artist by which hip-hop had change his life from a negative place in life to a positive place in life. The rap artist is The Game, if you’re not familiar with him he is also from Compton. The Game was involved in a lot of gang violence growing up, in his A and E Documentary “The Streets of Compton” it talked about how hip-hop changed The Game’s life. The Game was a well-known gangster who ran with the Bloods a notorious gang in Los Angeles. The Game had no other choice but to join the gang because he needed money and had nothing else to do. The Bloods were always feuding with the Crips which is another violent gang in LA. But one day when The Game was in a hotel some Crips came and shot him in the chest multiple times, he was later rushed to a hospital and he was in a coma for a couple of months. When he woke up he soon realized that he needed to change his ways or he would die for real. So, The Game had decided that he wanted to become a rapper and express his feelings about how he felt about his life. The Game had believed that him being alive today was a message from god. The Game had begun to teach himself how to rap and eventually he turned it into a career and laughed his first album “The Documentary” in 2005. This album had changed his life and made him realize that being a gang member can affect your life. The Game had mentioned that if he never would have done rap he would have probably gone the wrong path and probably would have ended up dead. The Game is one of many rappers that hip-hop had a positive impact on him. I personally believe that if he didn’t choose to become a rapper he would have ended up in a casket. This is one good example on how hip-hop had a positive impact on him. Not

Tupac Shakur was born on September 17, 1971, in Brooklyn New York. Tupac got into acting early in his life, landing his first role in an acting ensemble when he was 12 years old. Tupac also began writing many poems

Willie Maxwell II “Fetty Wap” was born on June 7, 1991 in Paterson, NJ. Fetty Wap writes, sings, and raps to hip hop and R&B. Wap raps for RGF productions, and he includes the name in all of his songs. Fetty Wap wasn’t well known until he released his new single, “Trap Queen” in 2014, which has over 80 million plays on SoundCloud. This song made it one US Billboard Hot 100 in May of 2015, followed by some of his others such as “679” and “My Way”. From the last week of July to the first week of August, Fetty wap was matching billboard marks from Hot rappers such as Eminem and Lil Wayne. Fetty wap became the first male rapper to have 3 songs on the top 20 since Eminem in 2013.

Also by releasing a series of increasingly popular Mixtapes, which brought him to the attention of hip hop producer Dr. Dre. Lamar's debut major-label recording, Good Kid, m.A.A.d City, was released to great success and impressive sales for an up and coming recording artist.

When thinking of the Hip-Hop industry, one of the first names that comes to mind is Tupac Shakur. Shakur was born in the Bronx on June 16, 1971. He was reared by his mother Afeni Shakur who was an active member of the Black Panthers. Tupac's family later relocated to Oakland, California, where he spent much of his time on the street. As a kid, he was always getting himself into trouble, and he was very lonely. He started writing songs to keep himself out of trouble. An article from VIBE magazine "Troubled Times for Tupac Shakur" quotes Tupac. "'I was lonely, I didn't have no big brothers, no big cousins until later. I could remember writing songs.... I remember writing poetry.' " 1 Tupac was talented in the areas of