Kendrick Lamar Trivia
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99 free Kendrick Lamar trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
56 free Kendrick Lamar trivia questions with answers. Kendrick Lamar went from a stuttering straight-A kid in Compton to the first rapper with a Pulitzer Prize, and this quiz walks the whole road. Fifty questions cover the K.Dot mixtapes and the TDE audition, Section.80, good kid m.A.A.d city, To Pimp a Butterfly, DAMN., Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers and GNX, plus the Drake feud, the Pop Out, the Super Bowl LIX halftime show and a record haul of Grammys. The early questions are for anyone who has heard Humble or Not Like Us on the radio; the later ones are for people who know which sample sits under Luther, who designed the DAMN. cover and how many times he played Not Like Us in a row at the Forum. Use it solo, or lift a round for a hip-hop trivia night. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on Kendrick, his albums and singles, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up. No forum guesses, no recycled listicle mistakes.
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Q 01Kendrick Lamar performs under his first and middle names; what is his surname?
Duckworth
Duckworth is also a DAMN. track about his father, who kept an armed robber sweet with free chicken at the KFC where he worked: the robber later became Kendrick's label boss.
Q 02Under what stage name did a teenage Kendrick release his first mixtapes?
K.Dot
K.Dot was dropped because, he said, people heard a kid who could rap but had no idea who he was, so he started putting his real name on his records.
Q 03Which independent label signed Kendrick Lamar as a teenager and went on to release his first album?
Top Dawg Entertainment
Top Dawg Entertainment's founder told him to prove he was good, so he rapped in the booth for an hour or more; the co-president was sold, the boss took longer to get it.
Q 04Kendrick's 2017 album DAMN. won which honor, a first for any music outside classical and jazz?
Pulitzer
The Pulitzer arrived three months after DAMN. had lost the Grammy for Album of the Year to Bruno Mars's 24K Magic.
Q 05Which politician named Kendrick Lamar's How Much a Dollar Cost his favourite song of 2015?
Barack Obama
Barack Obama, asked on YouTube weeks later who would win a rap battle between Kendrick and Drake, answered: "Got to go with Kendrick."
Q 06Which singer joined Kendrick as the special guest at his Super Bowl LIX halftime show?
SZA
SZA then toured stadiums with him from April 2025, and within two months their Grand National Tour had out-grossed every earlier co-headlining tour on Billboard's books.
Q 07Which actor played the scolding master of ceremonies between songs at Kendrick's Super Bowl LIX halftime show?
Samuel L. Jackson
Samuel L. Jackson appeared as a satirical Uncle Sam, telling Kendrick his set was "too loud, too reckless, too ghetto" and praising only the gentler duets.
Q 08Which tennis champion crip-walked on stage during Kendrick's Super Bowl LIX halftime show?
Serena Williams
Serena Williams was repeating the dance she did after winning Olympic gold in London in 2012, when critics attacked her for it.
Q 09Kendrick's first Hot 100 number one came as a featured artist on which Taylor Swift remix?
Bad Blood
Bad Blood got a second take in 2023, when Kendrick re-recorded his verses so that Swift could own the remix as part of her Taylor's Version project.
Q 10Which lead single from DAMN. became Kendrick's first Hot 100 number one as a lead artist?
Humble
Humble debuted at number two and took the top spot the week DAMN. arrived, unseating Ed Sheeran's Shape of You after 12 weeks at number one.
Q 11Which 2018 film soundtrack did Kendrick curate and executive produce?
Black Panther
Black Panther's director had asked for only a few songs to fit particular scenes; after watching the unfinished film, Kendrick's team decided that was not enough and made a whole album.
Q 12Which Kendrick Lamar duet spent 13 weeks at number one on the Hot 100 in 2025?
Luther
Luther takes its title from Luther Vandross, whose sampled voice from a 1982 recording opens the track.
Q 13Kendrick Lamar's 2024 album GNX shares its name with what?
A Buick car
A Buick car, the 1987 GNX: Kendrick was born that year, and his father drove him home from the hospital in a Buick of the same line.
Q 21Which supergroup did Kendrick form with Jay Rock, Ab-Soul and ScHoolboy Q?
Black Hippy
Black Hippy never released the group album fans kept asking for, and on a 2024 song Kendrick admitted his own part in the four drifting apart.
Q 22Kendrick's feud with Drake traces back to his 2013 verse on which Big Sean song?
Control
Control had Kendrick naming Drake and a string of other rappers as rivals he was out to bury, among them Jay Electronica, who raps on the very same track.
Q 23Kendrick's surprise 2024 verse on which Future and Metro Boomin song reignited the Drake feud?
Like That
Like That drew a diss track back from J. Cole, who days later apologised to Kendrick from a festival stage and took the song back.
Q 14Which DJ-producer made the beat for Kendrick Lamar's Not Like Us?
Mustard
Mustard had been peppering Kendrick with batches of beats, hoping one would land, and the one that finally did took him about 30 minutes to make.
Q 15Which To Pimp a Butterfly track became a Black Lives Matter protest chant?
Alright
Alright was built on a beat Pharrell had made in 2014 for another rapper, Fabolous, and Pharrell ended up singing its hook himself.
Q 16What is the title of Kendrick's independently released 2011 debut studio album?
Section.80
Section.80 went out through iTunes on his small label, and at a concert that same year Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre and the Game declared him the new king of the West Coast.
Q 17Kendrick's album good kid, m.A.A.d city carries which subtitle on its cover?
A short film by Kendrick Lamar
A short film by Kendrick Lamar fits because the album plays like one: its songs and spoken skits tell a single story drawn from his own teenage years.
Q 18Which single from good kid, m.A.A.d city was Kendrick's first top-20 hit on the Hot 100?
Swimming Pools (Drank)
Swimming Pools (Drank) has a hook that goads a friend into another round, yet the verses are a warning: Kendrick grew up in a house of casual drinkers and drunks.
Q 19Kendrick and Dave Free's creative company, launched in March 2020, is called what?
PGLang
PGLang was announced with the warning that it was not a record label, and it has since made a film for a Chanel couture show, with Kendrick writing the score.
Q 20Kendrick's cousin, his partner on the 2021 single Family Ties, records under what name?
Baby Keem
Baby Keem's single brought Kendrick back after years largely away from rap, and Kendrick then turned up all over the younger rapper's debut album.
Q 24Which Drake and J. Cole track, with its talk of a 'big three', provoked Kendrick's 2024 verse attacking both?
First Person Shooter
First Person Shooter had J. Cole ranking himself, Drake and Kendrick as rap's top trio, and Kendrick's answer was that there was no trio at all, only him.
Q 25Drake's answer record to Not Like Us, released the very next day, was titled what?
The Heart Part 6
The Heart Part 6 stole the next number in Kendrick's own long-running The Heart series, but six months later Kendrick put a Heart Pt. 6 of his own on GNX anyway.
Q 26Kendrick's 2024 concert The Pop Out: Ken & Friends was held at which venue in Inglewood, California?
Kia Forum
Kia Forum tickets sold out, and demand was high enough that Amazon Music stepped in to stream the whole show live.
Q 27What is the title of Kendrick's 2016 compilation of eight date-labelled leftovers from To Pimp a Butterfly?
Untitled Unmastered
Untitled Unmastered was a surprise release, and though Kendrick called its tracks unfinished demos, it entered the Billboard 200 at number one.
Q 28Which basketball star's public request led Kendrick to release his 2016 compilation of leftover demos?
LeBron James
LeBron James tweeted at Kendrick and his label boss that they had to put out the songs he had been playing on TV; the boss replied that he would think about it, then did.
Q 29Kendrick Lamar raps a guest verse on which song from Beyoncé's 2016 album Lemonade?
Freedom
Freedom found a second life in 2024, when Kamala Harris walked out to it and Beyoncé cleared it as the official song of her presidential campaign.
Q 30Which Kendrick Lamar hit from GNX is built on Debbie Deb's 1980s freestyle track When I Hear Music?
Squabble Up
Squabble Up was first heard as an untitled teaser at the start of the Not Like Us video in July 2024, more than four months before the album arrived with the full song.