In late January, the Compton, California, rapper Kendrick Lamar lost the Grammy Award for album of the year to Bruno Mars. DAMN., Lamar’s fourth LP, was his third straight to be nominated but ultimately fall short of the trophy, considered by most to be the top prize in popular music. took home an even more elusive honor, one that may never have even seemed within reach: the Pulitzer Prize for music. This is a big moment for hip-hop music and a big moment for the Pulitzers.”Lamar was not immediately available to comment on his win. “The idea that that’s not classical music, or that’s not experimental music, or that’s not art music is completely unfounded.”It was not until 1997 that the Pulitzer Prize for music went even to a jazz work: Wynton Marsalis’s oratorio Blood on the Fields.

Source: The Irish Times April 16, 2018 22:30 UTC