(FILES) In this file photo taken on October 8, 2016 rapper Kendrick Lamar performs during the 2016 Austin City Limits Music Festival at Zilker Park in Austin, Texas. - Kendrick Lamar, the acclaimed rapper whose affecting lyricism has soundtracked the Black Lives Matter movement and compelled fans as well as critics to call him the voice of a generation, dropped his first album in five years Friday, May 13.The long-anticipated record "Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers" was released to streaming services overnight, and is expected to dominate the charts and place the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lamar once again at the center of the American cultural conversation. (Photo by SUZANNE CORDEIRO / AFP) (Photo by SUZANNE CORDEIRO/AFP via Getty Images)
