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

[Ziggiy]

This album deserves to move 2 million first week

 

[detroitwalt]

Why is it saying it's no longer available on iTunes?

 

[Da King]

Why is it saying it's no longer available on iTunes?

Sold out

 

[NoHalfWay]

Regardless of quality, this isn't going to have the impact of gkmc

That's to be expected tho

 

[thekingsmen]

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.

I mean Im not even a fan of Cole, Lamar or Lupe but Cole surprised me with that album and "Mural" off the Lupe album is bananas. I think Hiphop fans have lower their listening capacity to less than 20 artists and don't understand that there is so much good shyt out there. So when they listen to this they think it's the R is coming back, because they have nothing to look forward to except for what the radio give them.

 

[mozichrome]

i ran that intro back like 3 times...shiit so fire

 

[Big Boss]

I've sat with the album since 2am early this morning. I've spun it in its entirety 4 times (working on a 5th as I type this. Here are my thoughts...

This is album is incredible.


In 2012 I won the first annual Booth Poster Year award, given annually by the Coli brethren. This was also the year that two incredible albums dropped that shaped my absolute love for the genre and fueled my passion for writing and posting about this music we all love to discuss and debate on..

The first was Nas's Life Is Good, a project which I felt moved the genre forward into an era where the elder statesmen of the music would finally be given the respect they deserve to utilize the platform to speak on mature and relevant topics. Child rearing, love, loss, divorce, the victories and failures that one with growth; Nas tackled all of these themes with a razor sharp focus and incredible lyricism that MORE than proved that his goal of "rapping into his 80's" was one that was not only well deserved, but should be well anticipated and appreciated.


The other was Good Kid m.A.A.d City.

I wasn't expecting a classic from Kendrick Lamar. I was expecting a very solid debut album following in the vein of Section 80 and Overly Dedicated. What I ended up experiencing was something akin to the feeling I got the first time I listened to The College Dropout, the pleasurable surprise and absolute shock of a young MC taking Hip Hop and utilizing it fully and wholly as a means of ultimate self expression. As I listened to Kendrick's audio film it struck me how the genre could still grow, could still be used to tell stories that were both new and reminiscent of those who had come before, could still INSPIRE.

I was witness to a new generation classic and I couldn't wait to discuss, debate, and ENJOY it with my group of Internet colleagues who were so in tune with the culture that we could stay up into the wee hours of the morning breaking down lyrics, concepts, and production. It was a fantastic time to be a Hip Hop fan...


Skip forward to 2015. I am three years older. No longer in the Army, divorced, and living on my own. In the last year of my twenties, still a rabid fan of Hip Hop, lyricism and creativity.

But I hadn't been INSPIRED by the music or an album in quite the same ways as I'd been since 2012. I immensely enjoyed J.Cole's Forest Hills Drive, attempted to decipher the ever-evolving puzzle that is Lupe Fiasco's Tetsuo And Youth, and jammed along with Drake's If Your Reading This Its Too Late. All of these albums were good to great in their respective rights, but I felt like I was waiting for something to come along and move the needle, to speak on the state of the world, of black consciousness, of music. Something to serve and a true audio time capsule of our current days and times.


I was waiting on Kendrick Lamar.


To Pimp A Butterfly is a masterful work of art in many ways. Lyrically it proves as an intelligent, thoughtful, and fierce portrait of a young man whose view of the world outside of his native Compton is ugly, beautiful, depressing, and hopeful. Not unlike the state of African American consciousness that has permeated from the times of slavery to the complexities of today. There are many ways to identify yourself as BLACK in this country, however, no matter how much progress seems to be made on the topic of race relations, the reality of being BLACK still carries struggle, prejudice, and very real feeling of dread that comes with a species perpetually going through genocide. Trayvonne Martin, Eric Garner, and Mike Brown have become more than men slain in a haze of dubious circumstances. They serve as Martyrs and tragic reminders the pain, anger, despair, and rage, associated with the social, economic, and law enforced castration of the African American.

Lyrically and Conceptually, Kendrick Lamar has taken this reality, wrapped it into a coc00n of moody, jazzy, and fluid production; and allowed it to go through metamorphosis for three years until what emerged was his vision of the Butterfly that is the Black Experience. He allows his feelings to take flight and spread a message that is absolutely true to our days and times.

This isn't a review in the sense of track by track breakdowns of which beat went harder with which hook. This is an analysis of FEELING and the means with which an MC can perfectly capture emotions and turn them into art.

When I listen to this album I am impressed. I am in awe. But mostly I am INSPIRED. To Pimp A Butterfly will inspire many for years to come. So much intelligence went into this that it is simply impossible to not commend Kendrick for his bravery, his love, and his passion.


5/5


@TPC

 

[Morethan1]

I heard the album a few times on Spotify this morning but I hate listening on shuffle. Can anyone pass the mustard?

http://www.atrilli.net/2015/03/15/kendrick-lamar-to-pimp-a-butterfly/

 

[Lucky Millionaire]

Momma has the bonus verse on "i" he performed on SNL

this album definitely gets stronger as it goes on starting from These Walls IMO

 

[thaKEAF]

These Walls sounds exactly like a Foreign Exchange record. to those who said that earlier in this thread.

 

[Dixon Cider]

nikka, I haven't said shyt about the album. Nobody's outchea like "When's @Macheezee gonna drop his thoughts on Kendrick's album?" There's a huge thread stickied about this album and random nikkas wanna drop their struggle opinions in pointless threads

you a lie son, nikkas check for my threads and posts holla when you do numbers.

 

[Adam3000]

Momma has the bonus verse on "i" he performed on SNL

this album definitely gets stronger as it goes on starting from These Walls IMO

Yep, the first four tracks aren't on par with the rest of the album even though they are good

 

[The G.O.D II]

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If we are comparing rappers and not Emcees, then of course but it doesn't make the album better being on there.

Explain






































No what nvm. Wash yo ass nikka:blackjesusufdup:

 

[SNG]

I bought this shyt late last night and listened to it on my phone without head phones and at first listen i really wasn't fukkin with it but when I put the head phones and tuned in this nikka went the fukk in on this album Mortal man had me shook with that convo with pac even tho it was from an interview the way he constructed that was prolific. You really can't compare this nikka to nobody in the game and only to the body of his work. That beginning beat of institutionalized . My tracks are how much a dolla cost, mortsl man, alright, hood politics, I'm sure they'll be others after a few more listens dope album nonetheless but I can't say it's better than gkmc but its still an Amazin body of work. Good job my nikka kendrick nikka made a spike lee film on wax.

 

[Mr.Plan B]

Don't know how to feel yet...........