Kendrick Lamar is an American rapper and songwriter from Compton, California. His sophomore studio album, 2012’s good kid, m.A.A.d city, was listed at No. 7 on Apple Music's list of the 100 Best Albums of All Time and described as "one of the defining hip-hop records of the 21st century." DAMN., his fourth studio album, won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2018.

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Among Lamar’s many career accolades are more than 20 Grammy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Brit Award. To Pimp a Butterfly, his third album, is one of his most decorated, winning the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album along with Best Rap Song, Best Rap Performance, and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration. His work on the 2018 soundtrack for Black Panther, which he curated and executive produced, earned him a Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance.

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In 2025, he headlined the Apple Music Super Bowl Halftime Show where he performed some of his biggest hits, including Luther featuring SZA, All the Stars from Black Panther, and Not Like Us. Lamar appears the documentary series Hip Hop: The Songs That Shook America, directed by Questlove and Alex Gibney, and the TV series The Defiant Ones, about the partnership between Dr. Dre and record mogul Jimmy Iovine.