![]() His debut, “good kid, m.A.A.d city,” was famously snubbed at the 56th Grammy Awards (white rapper Macklemore won that year for rap album - and apologized publicly to Lamar). Lamar’s achievement would have been all the more impressive because he would have done so with “To Pimp a Butterfly,” a rap album so challenging and musically complex that fans and critics are still chewing on it nearly a year after its release. And for album of the year, the only other rap artists to win were Lauryn Hill and OutKast.Ī win for album of the year would have also made the Compton-born emcee Lamar the first black artist to win since 2008, when Herbie Hancock accepted a tribute album of Joni Mitchell covers. Had he taken that award, it would have been the first time a rapper won the category. Lamar was also in the running for song of the year. Tobymac won the contemporary Christian music album Grammy for “This Is Not a Test.” (Allen J.
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