Kendrick Lamar | Before They Were Famous | The Story of The King of Rap

For as long as he’s been making music, Kendrick Lamar has been
trying to open minds. But Kendrick Lamar is NOT a role model. On
his third studio album “To Pimp a Butterfly”, Kendrick became
something of a Liberal champion, but the truth is that -- just like
the rest of us -- Kendrick is a deeply flawed individual whose been
trying to tell us that the entire time. Sure, he’s a Pulitzer Prize
winner. Sold more than 17 Million albums worldwide. Been nominated
for 33 Grammys. Won 13. His music is even archived in the library
at Harvard University and he’s been described as the poet-laureate
of hip-hop -- an innovative storyteller whose work has been
compared to that of classic novelists like James Joyce and James
Baldwin. But here’s the thing – since becoming the biggest name in
all of rap music with the release of “DAMN” in 2017, Kendrick Lamar
has been going through something. Maybe a lot of things. And for
anyone who knows anything about his past, it’s entirely
understandable. After all, you don’t just get over being shot at or
watching your friends die as a child. Now -- with his return from a
nearly 4-year long hiatus and the release of his fifth studio
album, “Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers”, Kendrick has seemingly
finally accepted that he can’t solve the world’s problems. Hell, he
might not even be able to solve his own.