NEWS: Kendrick Lamar won the Pulitzer

The news is revolutionary: Kendrick Lamar won the Pulitzer.

For the first time in the 102-year history of the award, in the music category, the recognition went to a non-classical or jazz musician.

The epoch enterprise is due to DAMN artist’s latest album, defined by the jury it “a virtuosic song collection unified by its vernacular authenticity and rhythmic dynamism that offers affecting vignettes capturing the complexity of modern African-American life.”

Dana Canedy, head of the Pulitzer, told the New York Times:

"The time was right.We are very proud of this selection. It means that the jury and the board judging system worked as it’s supposed to — the best work was awarded a Pulitzer Prize. It shines a light on hip-hop in a completely different way. This is a big moment for hip-hop music and a big moment for the Pulitzers.”

For Lamar, after the 11 Grammys, is yet another certificate of esteem, an amazing goal that the singer, 30, born in a poor suburb of Los Angeles, has obtained with sacrifice and hard work. A story that will probably be told in a chapter of The Butterfly Effect: How Kendrick Lamar Ignited the Soul of Black America, biography of the rapper still in progress, written Marcus J. Moore.

Pulitzer's other winners include Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor of the New York Times and Ronan Farrow of the New Yorker for the sexual harassment investigations that brought out the Weinstein scandal, giving rise to the #metoo movement.