Kendrick Lamar, rapper and peacemaker on the streets of Los Angeles

Despite his verbal duel with his Canadian rival Drake, Kendrick Lamar, triumphed at the Grammy Awards and set the Super Bowl half-time show ablaze in early February, is also a man of peace. A child of Compton, a Los Angeles neighborhood plagued by gang warfare, the author of ‘Not Like Us’ is using his fame to call a truce in the gang violence that has claimed the lives of several people close to him.