Lorenzo Dechalus (born September 17, 1968),[1] known professionally as Lord Jamar, is a Guyanese-American rapper, DJ, record producer, actor and podcaster.

[2] He was introduced to hip hop music in the 1970s through a friend who lived in his neighborhood, and he would listen to tapes of The Cold Crush Brothers, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five and The Sugarhill Gang.

[2] He dropped out of high school after failing ninth grade, and worked a few short-term jobs prior to signing a record deal.

[4] Jamar released a diss track directed at Kanye West on February 4, 2013, titled "Lift Up Your Skirt", and stated that "gay has no place in hip-hop"; the song's homophobic lyrics attracted attention.

[5][6] In a September 2013 interview on VladTV, Jamar declared that white rappers were "guests in hip hop"; he criticized Macklemore's "Same Love" for its pro-LGBT message.

"[12] In July 2020, Jamar denounced the Black Lives Matter movement, claiming it was "given to us by George Soros and his fucking boys because they saw how things were going and they didn't want it to go back to the 60s.