Kendrick Lamar By tylerwestfall7 Nov 20, 2003 Signing with Top Dawg Entertainment May 5, 2005 Second Mixtape - Training Day Dec 5, 2007 No Sleep 'Til NYC mixtape Feb 12, 2009 Last mixtape as K-Dot- C4 Dec 31, 2009 Kendrick Lamar EP; First release as Kendrick Lamar Sep 23, 2010 Overly Dedicated- Fourth mixtape. First charted release. (#72 - Billboard 200) Jul 2, 2011 Section.80-Debut studio album. As of January 2015 the album has sold 578,000 copies. Mar 12, 2012 Deal with Interscope Records and Aftermath Entertainment Oct 22, 2012 Kendrick Lamar dropped album: Good Kid, M.A.A.D City Aug 11, 2014 Lamar received a total of seven nominations at the 2014 Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year. Sep 23, 2014 Kendrick Lamar song: "I" Mar 23, 2015 To Pimp a Butterfly- Third studio album is scheduled to be released Dec 24, 2015 Lamar received the California State Senate's Generational Icon Award from State Senator Isadore Hall III