Kendrick Lamar Duckworth (born June 17, 1987) is an American rapper, songwriter, record producer. He is regarded by many critics and contemporaries as one of the most influential hip hop artists of his generation, and often cited as one of the greatest rappers of all time. Aside from his solo career, Lamar is also known as a member of the hip hop supergroup Black Hippy, alongside his TDE label-mates Ab-Soul, Jay Rock, and Schoolboy Q.

Filmography

• 2026Ca$ino Album Listening — Executive Producer
• 2026Death of a Lion — Original Music Composer
• 2026Gassed Up — Musician
• 2025Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show — Self - Performer, Music Director
• 2024Piece by Piece — Kendrick Lamar (voice)
• 2024The Pop Out: Ken & Friends — Self, Executive Producer, Creative Director, Music
• 2023The Melodic Blue: Baby Keem — Executive Producer, Writer
• 2022Kendrick Lamar Live: The Big Steppers Tour — Self, Executive Producer, Creative Director, Songs
• 2022We Cry Together — Self, Music, Executive Producer, Director
• 2018Black Panther — Music, Music Producer, Songs
• 2015God Is Gangsta — Kendrick Lamar, Music
• 2014Divergent — Songs
• Power — Laces
• 2014The Amazing Spider-Man 2 — Songs
• 2014m.A.A.d — Self, Songs
• Neither mime, nor reason — Music
• Whitney Springs — Producer

Appearances as themselves (28)

• 2026ASAP Rocky – The Assault in Stockholm — Self (archive footage)
• 2025Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music — Self (archive footage)
• 2024Tale of the Tape — Self (archive footage)
• 2023Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé — Self
• 2022THE SHOW: California Love — Self
• 2022The Pepsi Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show Starring Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige, Eminem, Kendrick Lamar, 50 Cent — Self - Performer
• 20212021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony — Self
• 2020LA Originals — Self
• 2019Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes — Self (voice)
• Hip Hop: The Songs That Shook America — Self
• 2018Quincy — Self
• Shut Up and Dribble — Self - Musician
• The Defiant Ones — Self
• 2016Lemonade — Self (voice) (uncredited)
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self - Musical Guest
• 2014Lennon or McCartney — Self
• 2014The Hip-Hop Fellow — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self
• 2013Kendrick Lamar - Live in London — Self
• The Arsenio Hall Show — Self
• Radio 1 at Reading and Leeds Festival — Self
• The Colbert Report — Self - Musical Guest
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self - Musical Guest
• Glastonbury — Self
• MTV Video Music Awards — Self
• Saturday Night Live — Self - Musical Guest
• American Music Awards — Self - Musical Guest
• The Grammys — Self