Pulitzer Prize For Literature Kendrick Lamar 2025 Nominees. On april 16, 2018, the pulitzer prize board awards the pulitzer prize for music to rapper kendrick lamar for his 2017 album, damn. Lamar is just the fifth living black artist to receive the honor but what's a pulitzer to him anyway?

Los angeles rapper kendrick lamar has won the 2018 pulitzer prize for music for his album “damn,” providing perhaps the biggest surprise as the awards for journalism, arts and letters were. Damn., by kendrick lamar recording released on april 14, 2017, a virtuosic song collection unified by its vernacular authenticity and rhythmic dynamism that offers affecting vignettes.