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Don't know Kendrick Lamar,* don't know his music, haven't had a chance to try it.   Why do any of the idiots of Eschaton think I would be upset at him winning the Pulitzer Prize for Music?

Considering how their resident music expert has slammed several former winners, not that long ago both Gunther Schuller (who he never heard a note of, I'm sure) and Ned Rorem  he's the one who slams Pulitzer Prize winners.

Like the prizes in other categories,  the people who select the winners are a pretty hit or miss.  If Stupy knew more about the issue, he might know that it was the man he derided not long ago, Gunther Schuller (a long time member of the selection committee) was one of the prime movers for opening up the category to non-classical musics.

"This is a long overdue sea change in the whole attitude as to what can be considered for the prize."

But Stups doesn't know all that much about anything but commercial pop (old, straight, white men concentration).   Make that "very old, straight, . . .

*  I did just read that he's a dedicated Christian convert who has credited God for the prime creative force for his music.  I would imagine if he was presented with some of his statements and Lamar hadn't won the Pulitzer that Stups and his fellow idiots at Eschaton would be deriding him as much as he has Rorem or Schuller or other winners. 

Here's a bit of that from a Buzz Feed piece:

In a recent Billboard interview, Lamar credited favoritism from God for his deliverance from the gravitational pull of crime in his neighborhood, and then casually declared his belief that the apocalypse is near. "We're in the last days, man — I truly in my heart believe that," he said. "It's written."

Speaking to Complex last year, he revealed his conviction that his career is divinely inspired. "I got a greater purpose," Lamar said. "God put something in my heart to get across and that's what I'm going to focus on, using my voice as an instrument and doing what needs to be done."

In a later interview with Houston's 93.7 The Beat, Lamar extended that sense of purpose to all of humankind: "We're all put on this earth to walk in His image, the Master," he argued.

So, apparently they gave it to a religious composer.  Let's see, how to put it,  Oh, yea,  is that going to piss off That Idiot From Eschaton©!