https://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2018/04/damn
They do point out though, that TPAB and GKMC might be more important works of his but I understand why DAMN won.
To those of you who haven't listened to it, or aren't fans of hip hop and don't understand why it would win this Pitchfork article explains it very well.
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/23147-damn/
Maybe not as forward moving (ironic because DAMN is considered by many to be a double album. One where the story goes both ways, and made to be listened to from front to back and back to front for two stories) as GKMC, which was one of the best modern storytelling I've seen in a musical artist in a very long time.
https://www.stereogum.com/1702657/c...d-kendrick-lamars-good-kid-m-a-a-d-city/news/
I find this to be well deserved, a once in a lifetime artist.