On Wednesday afternoon (May 30), Kendrick Lamar made history when he became the first hip-hop act to win a Pulitzer Prize in music for his acclaimed 2017 album DAMN. Lamar -- who notched four Grammys, including best rap album, this year for DAMN. -- was on-hand at New York City's Columbia University to receive the distinguished honor.
President of Columbia University, Lee C. Bollinger, showered Lamar's hip-hop opus with an abundance or praise, dubbing the project a "virtuosic song collection unified by its vernacular authenticity that offers affecting vignettes capturing the complexity of modern African-American life."