Which rapper's 2015 album 'To Pimp a Butterfly' won Best Rap Album?

Kendrick Lamar’s 2015 album To Pimp a Butterfly won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album. The victory came at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards in 2016, where Lamar also won for “Alright,” “The Blacker the Berry,” and other work connected with the album.

To Pimp a Butterfly followed Lamar’s acclaimed 2012 album good kid, m.A.A.d city and expanded his sound with jazz, funk, soul, and spoken-word influences. Its themes include Black identity, racism, political violence, depression, survivor’s guilt, and the pressures of fame. The album’s ambitious structure gradually develops a poem that becomes complete in its closing track, “Mortal Man.”

The win is sometimes confused with Album of the Year: To Pimp a Butterfly was nominated in that general category but lost to Taylor Swift’s 1989. It did, however, win Best Rap Album, making Lamar’s 2016 Grammy night one of the most important award-show moments of his career. The album is also widely regarded as a landmark of 21st-century hip-hop.