The rapper Kendrick Lamar has made history by becoming the first hip hop musician to receive the Pulitzer Prize for his album Damn.
During the award, the album was described as a "virtuosic song collection ... which captured the complexity of modern African American life.
The album has been a huge critical and commercial success and has received many international awards including a Grammy for best rap album.
In a Facebook Live video on the Pulitzer Prizes page, Lamar told Sree Sreenivasan, "I’ve been writing my whole life, so to get this type of recognition it’s beautiful ".
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