Kendrick Lamar

Kendrick Lamar ( born June 17, 1987 in Compton, California) is an American rapper and songwriter.

Career

He is currently under contract with Aftermath Entertainment. For the first time he moved after the release of the mixtape Overly Dedicated in 2010, the focus of the scene. 2011, his album Section.80, released exclusively on iTunes, one of the most successful hip-hop albums of the year. Lamar has a great reputation on the Internet, and is together with Jay Rock, Schoolboy Q and Ab- Soul member of the hip hop collective Black Hippy. He collaborated among others with Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Wiz Khalifa, Eminem, Game, Drake, Busta Rhymes, Lady Gaga and Tech N9ne. His parents moved from Compton to Chicago to get away from the gang life. Reason for this was that his father was a member of the notorious gangsters Disciples.

On October 22, 2012 his second studio album Good Kid, MAAD City appeared. It contains, among other productions from Just Blaze, Pharrell Williams, Hit- Boy, Scoop DeVille and T-Minus. It is the most commercially successful album to date Lamar. It not only reached # 2 in the U.S., but was able to place in the charts internationally and received many positive reviews. In 2009 he joined also with his rap colleagues and friends Schoolboy Q, Jay Rock and Ab Soul to Hip- hop group Black Hippy along, all of which are under contract with the label Top Dawg Entertainment. 2012 but they told to first want to record an album.

Discography

Studio albums

Mixtapes

EPs

Singles

As a guest musician

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