Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly | (Discussion Thread) *Stream*

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Stop hating and just listen to the music.

I love it. Its a dope sounding album...but its not pushing any boundaries.

its just like a new jazz/funk album.

 

[Zero]

....so we just gon let Anna Wise lilly white soulless ass sing about "massa take the chains off me"?

 

[A.V.]

Loving you is complicated

 

[beenz]

is it me or does "These walls" sound eerily like this 80's song? I didn't see it listed in the sample credits tho.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

....so we just gon let Anna Wise lilly white soulless ass sing about "massa take the chains off me"?

All this Bilal on the album and I already know what time it is

Kendrick is trying to get spins in adult-contemporary lounges and shyt

This is sounding like another Roots Album

 

[CarltonJunior]

Thats what I'll do. More than 1ce.

Its just not hitting me like it should though.

Section 80 hit me like
Habits and Contradictions hit me like
Oxymoron hit me like
These Days hit me like
GKMC hit me like
This is hitting me like

I dunno what it is. I dont know how anyone can compare it to MBDTF either, especially this early. MBDTF hit me with all them smilies at once.

No it didn't. Control System did

Every song after U is what you would expect from Kendrick, anything before is pretty much experimental and hit or miss for most people.

 

[NoHalfWay]

He won't because his approach to music is different. While Kendricks music has some depth to unpack, his approach is pretty straight forward. He's also trying to connect with the listener on a emotional level. I also feel like it's music 1st and message 2nd. Lupe can be very inaccessible as an artist in his music, and according to his fans, they like that his shyt requires a ton of deciphering for enjoyment's sake. Lupe can be very heavy handed with his lyrics over everything approach.

This just doesn't apply to his new album at all. Half the album is straightforward and can be taking in at face value.

Plus his performance on it is some of the best MC'in I heard in a while

 

[GoldenGlove]

He won't because his approach to music is different. While Kendricks music has some depth to unpack, his approach is pretty straight forward. He's also trying to connect with the listener on a emotional level. I also feel like it's music 1st and message 2nd. Lupe can be very inaccessible as an artist in his music, and according to his fans, they like that his shyt requires a ton of deciphering for enjoyment's sake. Lupe can be very heavy handed with his lyrics over everything approach.

Lupe also doesn't use skits with amazing spoken word for the listeners
Lupe also doesn't change his voice to connect his storytelling even more

Kendrick does this so perfectly though

 

[Marci-Senpai]

Someone bless me with a linkkkkkkkkkkkkk

 

[g-ice]

So far this shyt sound like

Black Messiah - D Angelo
Aquemini/Stankonia - Outkast
Untitled - Nas
How I Got Over - The Roots

All in one

 

[Bawon Samedi]

I love it. Its a dope sounding album...but its not pushing any boundaries.

its just like a new jazz/funk album.

\But who cares if its pro-black?


I know I'm gonna get a lot of hate but I didnt pay attention that but just enjoyed the music.

As for pushing boundaries idk, but imo its different from other Hip Hop albums out now. Again just my opinion.

 

[Ohene]

No it didn't. Control System did

Every song after U is what you would expect from Kendrick, anything before is pretty much experimental and hit or miss for most people.

These Days > Control System. I think These Days is unfairly hated but thats just me.

 

[Spurs91]

lucy sounds like a metaphor for show biz

Lucy - Lucifer?

 

[AAKing23]

Why would iTunes take the album down NOW? SMH, hustling backwards, and if it's the lable, they're stupid as hell. This is just gonna hurt the sales.

For the ppl asking for a link, I caught up on the posts that I missed (about 7 pages, at 50 posts per page), and saw 2 posts with links to the album in spoiler tags (which IS a no-no fyi), so do the math, dig a little and you'll find it.

Also, I see some of the Kendrick-hating brigade that couldn't stay up past their bed time to hate when this dropped are starting to filter in. This thread is about to go to shyt pretty quickly.

Finally, can we stop with the "this album isn't for cacs" type posts. That's just ignorance. Music is universal. Just because it has a pro-black message doesn't make it anti-white. There are alot of us out there capable of enjoying and supporting the message of a strong black man. I enjoyed the album immensely while listening last night, but according to some folks on here, that shouldn't be possible becasue I'm a "cac"? Absurd. I guess I shouldn't like Public Enemy either? Not all of us are racist devils like some of you so desperately want to believe.

Cac ain't synonymous with White breh get out of your feelings

 

[Zero]

All this Bilal on the album and I already know what time it is

Kendrick is trying to get spins in adult-contemporary lounges and shyt

This is sounding like another Roots Album

And you know what the fukked up part about it is? It could really work if he wasn't insistent on rapping in weird voices