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

[Flawdaboi]

She's on quite a few tracks

I love that sista man, she so Damn smooth..she def has her fathers soul in her. I played "on your own" for a chick who just got dumped...chick was crying like a baby

 

[Morethan1]

I just got off work somebody hit me with a link

the link i had is not valid anymore

thanks

 

[Tookalossfellbackcameback]

Can an album be a straight up classic if you have to be in the right mindset/mood to f*ck with it? That's the question I'm asking myself right now, because as a work of art this shyt is a masterpiece...but as a "bump in the whip" type album with beats that make your face twist up...this ain't it, at all.

 

[onelastdeath]

Nikka get off drake dikk

Cotdamm its possible to like both

While your GOAT Kanye makes songs saying ALl day at the end of each line for a whole song while his idiotic fanbase eats it up

SuhADic

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

Sleepy's Theme will always be a personal classic.

I've never met a person That I played this for and they didn't ask me to burn a copy. Slept on classic

 

[onelastdeath]

I honestly enjoy drake shyt but the whole hes better than kendrick shyt has to stop if he can't release an album on par with any of kdots output.

Which is all I ask, but maybe that's too much

 

[ArmchairCritic]

I get why some people might not fukk with the sound but the raps are fukking undeniable on here man, he's rapping his fukking ass off.

 

[FrederickDouglas]

The album is average.

A lot of these posters in here are praising it like it's the second coming. But Tetsuo & Youth as well as 2014 Forest Hills Drive are better.

To be honest, it's kinda boring. I guess you could say it's sonically consistent, but that's not really a good thing. Nothing really stood out to me as inspiring or innovative. His attempts to be conscious seemed hollow. It's a letdown, especially after GKMC.

There are some highlights, some moments of depth, but nothing that would elevate it to classic status.

If anyone besides Kendrick had released this album, it would not get a quarter of the praise it's received.

On top of that, I think it's somewhat socially irresponsible. Kendrick is using his platform to recite meaningless platitudes and promote concepts like "respectability politics". To see that receive such acclaim in the mainstream, or for it to be promoted as the salvation of hip-hop, is disheartening.

I'm not saying the album is trash. It's just disappointing.

 

[CaughtInTWebb]

How Much a Dollar Cost is probably the best song on here. Everything about it is dope....the verses.....the chorus....the beat....and Ron Isley singing at the end is the cherry on top....

 

[T.he I.nformant]

"They say its the white man I should fear/but its my own kind doing all the killing here"

+rep

Got em

 

[mahnameizray]

Sleepy's Theme will always be a personal classic.

pass the mustard on that.

 

[Kaypain]

I am Not Paying 15 dollars to interscope for this shyt brehs. Who got a link.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

taylor swift going nuts. she'd prolly let that nikka bust inside her.

Yeah right. The closest she gets to black men is magazine covers

 

[The G.O.D II]

First half was struggling to find a spot between being G-funk and Outkast Stankonia mixed with pointless interludes.

Pointless interludes? nikka For Free is deeper then most rappers 17 song albums

 

[kingdizzy01]

this shyt may be too west coast for some of yall. but that sound is back

listened to the whole album, but wesleys theory been on repeat all day