Kendrick Lamar becomes first rapper to win a Pulitzer Prize for his `virtuosic´ album `DAMN.´
(WorldNews Canada)

Pulitzer judges upended decades of tradition by awarding its music prize Monday to Kendrick Lamar for his rap album DAMN., a sharp departure from the classical and jazz works the body have consistently favoured. The Pulitzers were once so restrictive that an advisory board rejected giving a prize to Duke Ellington. The closest precedent to Lamar’s win came in 2008 when Bob Dylan received an honorary Pulitzer. The group’s board called Lamar’s album a “virtuosic song......