[4] Lamar is the identical twin of actress Laverne Cox,[5] and played his sister's character pre-transition in two episodes of the Netflix show Orange Is the New Black.

[9] He studied painting at the San Francisco Art Institute and attended Yale for graduate school in sculpture before dropping out to focus on music.

[2] He moved to New York primarily to pursue vocal training with Ira Siff, founder and lead soprano of La Gran Scena Opera Company.

[10] One Archive and the University of Southern California commissioned Lamar's Funeral Doom Spiritual, which premiered in 2016 as both a performance and multimedia installation with objects, videos, and prints.

[10] In 2016, Lamar received a grant from the Jerome Foundation to compose the work Lordship and Bondage: The Birth of the Negro Superman for the Living Earth Show.