Damn. 
To Pimp A Butterfly 
Good Kid, M.A.A.D City 
Interscope Records is launching its 30 th anniversary celebration in an imaginative manner with more than 50 artworks at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) called “Artists Inspired by Music: Interscope Reimagined.” This exhibition will feature new works by a diverse group of visual artists — including Cecily Brown, Julie Curtiss, Shepard Fairey, Lauren Halsey, Damien Hirst, Rashid Johnson, Takashi Murakami, Richard Prince, Ed Ruscha, Kehinde Wiley, and many others — that were inspired by the music of some of Interscope’s most influential recording artists, including 2Pac, Billie Eilish, Dr. Dre, Eminem, Gwen...
Top Dawg Entertainment
Kendrick
Lamar
Artist
Lamar may have taken the past few months off for what is essentially paternity leave (he and fiancée/high school sweetheart Whitney Alford welcome a baby girl in July), but he has cast a long shadow over hip-hop, music and culture in the seven years since his debut full-length, “Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City” was released in 2012. Last year he became the first non-jazz or classical musician to win the Pulitzer Prize for music (for his 2017 album “DAMN.”), and his curation of the soundtrack for the Marvel film “Black Panther,” which featured music from him and others, was a formidable expansion of his reach into the film world. Yet in a way unlike virtually any other recording artist, Lamar’s every move is significant — a guest verse from him gives a song and its artist instant credibility — and his music is equally impactful culturally and commercially: Not only is he arguably the most important and skilled rapper working today, he’s had four No. 1 albums and won 13 Grammy Awards out of 37 total nominations in just six years.
