Kendrick is gay

The kudos hail from not only music industry cognoscenti, but from an array of familiar names including former President Barack Obama, Eminem, Misty Copeland, Taylor Swift and U2, the latter two who have collaborated with the acclaimed rapper.

Need further proof of Lamar’s stratospheric standing? He also mixes up his relatives' preferred pronouns, and he "deadnames" them — using names that they no longer use.

He does the same to Caitlyn Jenner, the Olympic gold medalist, reality TV star, and erstwhile candidate for governor in California.

"That felt jarring," Willis said.

He’s never chased trends.”

Did the Drake feud fuel Kendrick Lamar’s popularity?

Part of Lamar’s marathon year backpedals to March 2024, when he dropped a strident verse on the Metro Boomin’/Future track “Like That.”

Forget “the big three … it’s just big ME,” Lamar rhymed, an obvious reference to the lyric crowning Drake, J.

Cole and Lamar as the top three rappers in the game on Drake’s 2023 song, “First Person Shooter.”

What followed was months of snarky, controversial lyrical slaps between Lamar and Drake. People reports that they were friends initially, before their relationship developed into a romantic one.

The couple kept their relationship out of the spotlight amid his rise to fame but were spotted on the red carpet at the Grammy Awards in 2014 together.

The show ‒ a genuine timeshare with SZA ‒ showcases both Lamar's artistic leanings with dim lighting and socially provocative videos and his deliberate flow, highlighted on hits such as "DNA" and "Humble."

On the charts, Lamar’s current collaboration with SZA, the ballad “Luther,” which is named for soul great Luther Vandross and samples his duet with Cheryl Lynn, “If This World Were Mine,” has topped the Billboard Hot 100 for 11 weeks.

I'm loyal to the soil."

Whitney has worked with her fiancé on projects, including having appeared alongside their family in the music video for his song Not Like Us, released last year. They have been seen together on numerous occasions in the decade since then.

A year before their red carpet debut, Kendrick spoke about a "lady friend" in an interview.

Take a look at ticket receipts and music charts.

The $11.8 million gross from the April 26 tour stop at AT&T Stadium outside of Dallas is the biggest haul by a rapper in a single concert as a headlining or coheadlining artist in history, according to the Touring Data site. The album art depicts him crowned with thorns, and he writes openly about struggles with a messiah complex and working it all out in therapy and in art.

The song culminates with Lamar standing up to a bigoted minister, asking, "Mr.

Preacherman, should we love thy neighbor? “ ’Good Kid, M.A.A.D City,’ was incredible and he could have easily come out with part two. Speaking about Whitney, he told Billboard: "I wouldn't even call her my girl. “There’s a commitment to storytelling in his music, but he’s also very theatrical and visceral.”

Lamar’s musical boldness is key

Storytelling is only a portion of Lamar’s genius.

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Moore, an author and music journalism teacher at University of Maryland, College Park, starting working on his book, “The Butterfly Effect: How Kendrick Lamar Ignited the Soul of Black America,” the same year the cerebral rapper won his Pulitzer.

In the five years since the book’s October 2020 release, Moore has watched Lamar blossom from “a scrappy upstart who wasn’t confident in his ability” to a breakthrough where he feels Lamar has “realized the music he makes and the message he has is vital … His recent music speaks to the notion of, ‘I can stand in the back of the room and still be Kendrick Lamar.’”

Along with that perspective comes a deeper dive into musical boldness.

Lamar will turn 38 on June 17, but he’s already proven his skill with multiple genres, mixing elements of pop (“All the Stars”) with rock (“Humble”) with stringent rap (“Blacker the Berry”) with jazz (“Rigamortis”).

The rapper is seen holding their eldest child, whilst Whitney sat cradling their youngest in the background. He has been a barrier-busting pop culture takeover.

“I don’t think we’ve ever seen a calendar year for a rapper like the one Kendrick Lamar has had,” said Justin Tinsley, a Lamar fan since the rapper dropped his “Overly Dedicated” mixtape in 2010.

Tinsley, a senior sports and culture reporter with ESPN’s Andscape, has delved into the cultural significance of other marquee hip-hop stars, with recent biographies on Notorious B.I.G.

To critics, the problems begin with the first line of the first verse: "My auntie is a man now."

" 'Auntie Diaries' is really about Kendrick's relationship with — not actually his auntie — but really his uncle," said Raquel Willis, an author, activist and former executive editor of Out magazine.

Speaking to Morning Edition co-host Rachel Martin, Willis said she understood Lamar's intention of "reckoning with both homophobia and transphobia, particularly within the Black community," but found his execution confusing.

In the song, the Pulitzer Prize-winning rapper repeatedly says a slur commonly wielded against queer people. "We've got to move beyond this getting-the-names-right, getting-the-pronouns-right conversation."

The LGBTQ rights group Freedom For All says hundreds of anti-LGBTQ bills have gone before state legislatures in 2022.

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