Ahead of Kendrick Lamar’s headline performance at the Super Bowl half-time show in New Orleans, we explore the rapper’s journey from the unforgiving streets of Compton to pop culture ubiquity.

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By January, he had also been caught up in a defamation lawsuit over “Not Like Us,” making it unclear whether he’d even be ...