Kendrick Lamar's Pulitzer Win Makes History

The decision to award rapper Kendrick Lamar the Pulitzer Prize for music represents a historic moment for hip-hop and American music, according to two of the music jurors who picked the album DAMN. as a finalist. Farah Jasmine Griffin, a Columbia professor said: "It's big for hip-hop. I think it's big for our country. It's big for music. But it's big for the Pulitzers, too. Institutions are not stuck in time, either. Institutions can change" .