Before Kendrick Lamar was a Pulitzer Prize winner with nearly two dozen Grammy Awards under his belt, he was a student in Compton.
The Super Bowl halftime show has changed a lot since the late 1960s, when college ... however, Lamar is a nobody who got the gig as a diversity hire and couldn’t sell his Compton swagger.
When Inge, who now teaches at Compton Early College High School, first heard of Lamar’s rise to stardom, he was puzzled and then blown away. “Kendrick Duckworth is a rapper? Quiet Kendrick?” ...