If the magnitude of Kendrick Lamar winning the Pulitzer Prize for music for DAMN. is still sinking in, join the club.
The lauded rapper, the most commercially successful musician to ever receive the award — and first non-classical or jazz artist to be honored — can add the Pulitzer to his shelf of 12 Grammys and plenty of fellow musicians and fans offered some emoji handclaps for rap’s high priest of truth.
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Check out some of the congratulatory tweets from the likes of LL Cool J, Common, Bruno Mars, Ellen DeGeneres, the TDE family and even some in verse from Lorde’s mom, poet Sonja Yelich.
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What a time to be alive! Black Panther is the third highest grossing film of all time, Kendrick won a Pulitzer Prize, Ava became the first Black Woman to direct a $100 Million budget film, Get Out won an Oscar, Lena Waithe became the first Black Woman to win an Emmy for writing.. pic.twitter.com/0YO3lJ0Xc9
— COMMON (@common) April 17, 2018
Congrats 2 @iamcardib on her #1 album — Congrats 2 @kendricklamar for winning The Pulitzer– Congrats to @Beyonce for killin it @ Coachella —
— Bruno Mars (@BrunoMars) April 17, 2018
DAMN!!!!!! https://t.co/NOqJPwD9UL
— TOP DAWG #TDE (@dangerookipawaa) April 16, 2018
Pulitzer Prize winner Kdot from Compton. I bet not ever hear one of you niggas speak with anything less than respect in your mouth for Kendrick Lamar. #TDE
— Punch TDE (@iamstillpunch) April 16, 2018
This makes me feel so good. I’m so proud of you @kendricklamar ————onward and upward!!!! — https://t.co/bTggRnQhbr
— LLCOOLJ. (@llcoolj) April 17, 2018
.@KendrickLamar is the first person to win a #Pulitzer for rap. Yep. That feels about right. Incredible.
— Ellen DeGeneres (@TheEllenShow) April 17, 2018
‘…we can’t know which songs in particular pushed the #Pulitzer judges, but “FEAR.” likely played a part.’ https://t.co/7bb8OskOle
— Danyel Smith (@danamo) April 17, 2018
Congratulations @kendricklamar on your Pulitzer win. The album was brilliant and deserves every accolade .
— Anthony Bourdain (@Bourdain) April 16, 2018
Kendrick Lamar’s “Damn”: won a #Pulitzer but just wasn’t… quite… good enough to take the Album of the Year #Grammy. pic.twitter.com/lpItexwp6j
— Bill Werde (@bwerde) April 16, 2018
Kendrick Lamar
1st rapper
to win
Pulitzer
is a poem
come true— Sonja Yelich (@sonjayelich1) April 16, 2018
— Susan Kelechi Watson (@skelechiwatson) April 16, 2018
#Beychella and Kendrick’s Pulitzer in the same week. What a time to be alive.
— Kelly McCreary (@KellyMcCreary) April 16, 2018
Congratulations to San Francisco’s Andrew Sean Greer and Compton’s Kendrick Lamar on earning Pulitzer Prizes for fiction and music. Two great artists doing California proud.
— Sen Dianne Feinstein (@SenFeinstein) April 17, 2018
Congrats to King @kendricklamar !!!!!
— Rap Bruce Willis (@Logic301) April 16, 2018
Wow. I wish somebody would tell me what I can’t accomplish. RT @AP: Kendrick Lamar has won the Pulitzer Prize for music for “DAMN” the first non-classical or jazz artist to win the award. https://t.co/sFouYcTsxC
— Charlamagne Tha God (@cthagod) April 16, 2018
August Wilson, Thelonious Monk, Alex Haley, Toni Morrison, John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Kendrick Lamar….just thinking of all the Pulitzer Prize winners I know and K Dot names sounds pretty damn good amongst them. Congrats to that brother! I’m inspired!
— Charlamagne Tha God (@cthagod) April 16, 2018