Noted for his self-aware and politically active lyrical composure, Kendrick Lamar has yet again stirred all platforms of media with the release of his fourth studio album: DAMN. Following the release, the term “legend” couldn’t prevail as a more accurate description for his character both in and out fame.

“You see real different nationalities and cultures are coming together and actually standing up for themselves and I think that’s a pure reflection of this record prior to this even happening prior to even coming out,” said Lamar in an interview at the Coachella festival with Zane Lowe on Beats 1.

Lamar, with being a predominant figure in the Black Lives Matter movement and as a politically well-informed citizen, has also stated that DAMN. provides fans with a view focusing not on their surroundings, but rather self.

According to Complex, the record is respectively at the top of the charts with “353,000 traditional album sales and an additional 227,000 streaming equivalent albums—a figure that is reflected by the fact that multiple tracks appear in Spotify’s Top 200 chart.”

“Of all the characteristics that set Kendrick Lamar apart — his blazing verbal gifts, his determined cultural politics, his resolute aesthetic modesty — perhaps the most unusual, especially in this era of hyper-connectedness, has been his particular blend of assuredness and indifference,” as said in a review by the NY Times.

Certainly, Lamar not only reaches hip-hop fanatics with his mesmerizing melodies and rap fanatics with his clever lyricism, but rather this generation as a whole with his intellectual commentary upon society today. One would be foolish to not infer that he is a legend to me.