In the first such award bestowed on a work outside of jazz and classical music, the Pulitzer Prize in Music was given to Kendrick Lamar’s album DAMN., which the board called a “virtuosic song collection unified by its vernacular authenticity.” What do you think?
“This type of recognition from a major establishment is exactly what hip-hop is all about.”
Darius Fincher • Cream Dolloper
“Whatever. I could win a Pulitzer, too, if I had Kendrick’s talent and work ethic and vision.”
Nadeen Lambert • Boiling-Water Attendant
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“This really flies in the face of conventional wisdom that the best music in the world should be very long and boring.”
Kevin Huntington • Five-Paragraph Essayist