Bouvre Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/16/entertainment/kendrick-lamar-pulitzer/index.html Lamar is the first rap artist to win the Pulitzer prize, joining musicians/composers such as Aaron Copland, George Crumb, and Wynton Marsalis; and poets such as Robert Pinsky, Robert Frost, Charles Simic, and John Berryman 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nameraka Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuggnificent Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 Ah why couldn't it have been a white folk singer lololol Damn affirmative action! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuggnificent Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 ALL MY LIFE IVE HAD TO FIGHT! (only lamar song i love...lemme be) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bouvre Posted April 18, 2018 Author Share Posted April 18, 2018 4 minutes ago, nameraka said: Good. Finally. right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuggnificent Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 5 minutes ago, Bouvre said: right? 😕=a black rapper accomplished something? Now i feel inferior. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nameraka Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 just to be clear. not a knock on kendrick lamar. i just think the pulitzer choices in the fiction category have been shit for about ten years and i'm petty. (that's also the only one i really care about) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bouvre Posted April 18, 2018 Author Share Posted April 18, 2018 Just now, nameraka said: just to be clear. not a knock on kendrick lamar. i just think the pulitzer choices in the fiction category have been shit for about ten years and i'm petty. (that's also the only one i really care about) Kelly Link came so close to winning for Get In Trouble, so I'm not feeling as hopeless about it. Haven't read the recent winner tho. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bouvre Posted April 18, 2018 Author Share Posted April 18, 2018 2 minutes ago, Quackers said: should have been cardi b Eventually. Eventually like Morgan Parker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuggnificent Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 2 minutes ago, Quackers said: should have been cardi b Altho cardi b's rise from the stripper pole and bad teeth to being every 5th song on the radio shes no kendrick. Her album bought me to tears tho...realest shit ive heard in years and ive gone thru a lot of shit she has. "And i never hesitate to show people the real me. Hair when its fucked up. Crib when its filthy. " What sickens me are people who diss her who wont even listen to her stuff. Her album is fire. Thru your phone is amazing. Get up 10 is inspirational. And this coming from me, a diehard NIN fan! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satou Kazuma Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 Hard pass on Cardi B. I like some of her guest spots and a few songs but everything else is terrible. Same goes to Post Malone, whose breakout hit was courtesy of 21 Savage and Metro Boomin. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scope Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 If it was going to hip hop it should have gone to Black Thought's 10 min Funk Flex freestyle that was more lyrical and interesting than most of these modern, so-called hip hop artists entire careers. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quebecelegy Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 damn was vastly worse than flower boy. after listening to the former multiple times i got over how good i originally thought it was. tyler's album should've won the grammy too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drunkenwarrior Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 (edited) listen, I like listening to kendrick lamar and all, but I think getting a pulitzer prize for saying the the phrase ''D'USSÉ with my boo bae, tastes like Kool-Aid for the analysts'' is kind of a slap in the face to Robert Frost Edited April 18, 2018 by Drunkenwarrior Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chapinator_X Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 (edited) It's pretty impressive for Kendrick since he's the first winner that isn't a classical symphony artist or a jazz musician, but To Pimp a Butterfly and Good Kid M.A.A.D. City are more deserving of a Pulitzer than DAMN. TPAB especially was an amazing cohesive album and felt far more meaningful in comparison. Edited April 18, 2018 by imchapp.in 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuggnificent Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 13 hours ago, Drunkenwarrior said: listen, I like listening to kendrick lamar and all, but I think getting a pulitzer prize for saying the the phrase ''D'USSÉ with my boo bae, tastes like Kool-Aid for the analysts'' is kind of a slap in the face to Robert Frost Lololol "He is not proper and as artistic as a stoogy dead guy from 50 years ago! Surely he is not deserving of the same award!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bouvre Posted April 18, 2018 Author Share Posted April 18, 2018 3 hours ago, imchapp.in said: It's pretty impressive for Kendrick since he's the first winner that isn't a classical symphony artist or a jazz musician, but To Pimp a Butterfly and Good Kid M.A.A.D. City are more deserving of a Pulitzer than DAMN. TPAB especially was an amazing cohesive album and felt far more meaningful in comparison. TPAB is super incredible, but who's to say about these people nominating work, and who's to say how long people have been submitting hip hop artists' work until whoever decided finally said it was credible and important music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bouvre Posted April 18, 2018 Author Share Posted April 18, 2018 16 hours ago, Drunkenwarrior said: listen, I like listening to kendrick lamar and all, but I think getting a pulitzer prize for saying the the phrase ''D'USSÉ with my boo bae, tastes like Kool-Aid for the analysts'' is kind of a slap in the face to Robert Frost Well music and poetry are separate categories. They're only unified by the award name. Secondly were Frost still around I'd be shocked if he didn't come to love Kendrick Lamar's flow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drunkenwarrior Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 4 hours ago, fuggnificent said: Lololol "He is not proper and as artistic as a stoogy dead guy from 50 years ago! Surely he is not deserving of the same award!" Yea that's what I said Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drunkenwarrior Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 1 hour ago, Bouvre said: Well music and poetry are separate categories. They're only unified by the award name. Secondly were Frost still around I'd be shocked if he didn't come to love Kendrick Lamar's flow. I doubt he would Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chapinator_X Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 3 hours ago, Bouvre said: TPAB is super incredible, but who's to say about these people nominating work, and who's to say how long people have been submitting hip hop artists' work until whoever decided finally said it was credible and important music. True, in the Music Pulitzer's history, popular artists were merely given an Additional Citation like Bob Dylan or Hank Williams. Where it came down to timing that the one year that they opened up to looking out for a popular musician as opposed to classical or jazz musicians, it'd be the year where DAMN. came out and thought into his other discography wasn't something they had in mind during 2012 or 2015. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarPanda Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 Damn for real 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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