Who became the first rapper to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music?

Explanation

The American rapper Kendrick Lamar won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2018 for his album "DAMN." (2017). He became the first rapper, and the first musician outside the worlds of classical music and jazz, to receive this prize.

Kendrick Lamar was born in 1987 in Compton, California, United States. He became known in the early 2010s for his thoughtful, poetic lyrics, which deal with themes such as race, identity, poverty, violence, faith and life in African-American communities. His famous albums include "good kid, m.A.A.d city" (2012), "To Pimp a Butterfly" (2015) and "DAMN." (2017). The Pulitzer board described "DAMN." as a virtuosic song collection that offers affecting vignettes capturing the complexity of modern African-American life. He has also won many Grammy Awards.

The Pulitzer Prizes are among the most prestigious awards in the United States. They were established by the will of Joseph Pulitzer, a Hungarian-born American newspaper publisher, and were first awarded in 1917. They are administered by Columbia University in New York. The prizes are given in journalism, in literature (fiction, drama, history, biography, poetry and general non-fiction) and in music. The Pulitzer Prize for Music was first awarded in 1943 and had mostly gone to composers of classical music, with jazz musicians recognised in later years.

People of Indian origin who have won Pulitzer Prizes include Gobind Behari Lal (the first Indian, 1937, for reporting), Jhumpa Lahiri (fiction, 2000, for "Interpreter of Maladies"), Siddhartha Mukherjee (general non-fiction, 2011, for "The Emperor of All Maladies") and Vijay Seshadri (poetry, 2014).

Why not the other options?

• ✗Eminem is a famous American rapper who won an Oscar for the song "Lose Yourself", but not a Pulitzer Prize.
• ✗Jay-Z is a famous American rapper and businessman.
• ✗Kanye West is a famous American rapper and producer.