Kendrick Lamar Duckworth was born in Compton, California on June 17, 1987. Lamar witnessed the shooting of the hit between Tupac and Dr. Dre, California Love when he was just 8 years old. That may have influenced his choice of career because now he is regarded as one of his generation’s most influential rappers. He has collaborated with Jay Rock, Schoolboy Q, and Ab-Soul as a member of the hip-hop supergroup Black Hippy.

In 2017, Kendrick Lamar was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Music. Damn (2017), his fourth album, became the first non-classical and non-jazz album to win the prize. He created the soundtrack for the superhero film Black Panther in 2018.

Who is Kendrick Lamar’s mother Paula Oliver?

Paula Oliver, Lamar’s mother was actually the main reason why he went into rap music full-time. She accidentally stumbled on Kendrick’s poem collection and was immediately convinced her son was super talented so she convinced him to move out of the gang-infested Chicago to Compton in order to focus on his music.

The only personal details available at the moment is that she used to wait tables at a diner in their neighborhood and that is about it.

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