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

[S.W.A.G.]

It's getting greater by each listen

Kinda reminds me alil of LWFC

My instant first reaction....Outkast influence and a whole lot of early Common, classic jazz with a lil bit of cool Whiplash/Birdman style jazz thrown in ..

 

[FlyRy]

Christmas tell em what's on your wishlist get all you deserve it kendrick

 

[larsattack]

These Walls...that third verse :damnno:

The storytelling by this nikka

I listened to that song all day yesterday when I realized it. That third verse is crazy!

Walls telling you to listen to "Sing About Me"
Retaliation is strong you even dream about me
Killed my homeboy and God spared your life
Dumb criminal got indicted the same night
So when you play this song rewind the first verse
About me abusing my power so you can hurt
About me and her in the shower whenever she horny
About me and her in the after hours of the morning
About her baby daddy currently serving life
And how she think about you until we meet up at night
about the only girl that cared about you when you asked her
And how she fukking on a famous rapper
Walls could talk

I know dude somewhere going

 

[Bawon Samedi]

People say Mortal Man and U almost made them cry, but "How Much A Dollar Cost" almost made me cry. Something about the beat/song is so sad...

 

[blazn101]

Incredible album..
Glad i had a chance to sit with this for a while, and take it all in.
Kendrick is one hell of an Artist for this one.

 

[Atlboss]

This shyt is incredible. I have been listening to the album non stop since Monday and I am now just really grasping everything.

 

[Ineedmoney504]

un just in awe breh, I just catch more and more every listen

A lot of people I talk to don't understand the album even with a the clues and interludes he giving u. I sometimes I have to explain to them what's going on while the songs playing. I don't see this album catching on wit this generation , but I'm not mad about.

 

[CASHAPP]

another thing....i'm happy as fukk that he released a 16 track album. i'm really gettin tired of all these artists releasing 10 track albums nowadays. I don't care about the motives or politics behind it, give us something that can hold us over til your next one. I miss the days when 15 track albums were the norm. kendrick just gave us 80 minutes of classic material and I swear the shyt feels like it's half that long.

This and the Lupe album are just amazing..Both are just over an hour of straight grade A material....

 

[Destined-2-Shine_HNIC]

Am I going crazy but on "U" why do i feel like Kendrick is not only talking to himself and responding to himself, I also feel like he is equally talking to a bottle of liquor and liquor is responding as well.

 

[ThatKidBlackHippy]

another thing....i'm happy as fukk that he released a 16 track album. i'm really gettin tired of all these artists releasing 10 track albums nowadays. I don't care about the motives or politics behind it, give us something that can hold us over til your next one. I miss the days when 15 track albums were the norm. kendrick just gave us 80 minutes of classic material and I swear the shyt feels like it's half that long.

THANK YOU. If the song is dope and it fits into the album, put the shyt on the fukking album

i agree with both of you but i guess the reason why artists put out shorter projects is due to the attention span of the average consumer nowadays ... its hard to have people patiently sit through a lengthy project anymore (especially when u can move on to something else with a swipe of a mouse), as evidenced by some of the early responses in this thread

 

[FrederickDouglas]

I still think the album is average


For ya'll who saw it being hailed as a classic and jumped on the bandwagon, just remember...

Spoiler

You ain't gotta lie to kick it, my nikka

 

[Champ_KW]

Since this album takes you places in your thought process, something that may surely be a reach, stuck out to me. On King Kunta, the breakdown when there's a gun shot and the voice say, "by the time you hear the next pop...the funk shall be within you" and another shot followed by Kendrick saying, "now I run the game....." I can't help but wonder......with the song being so funky and the album taking a sharp turn from what everything else is being played on the radio, was the shot symbolic of Kendrick "killing" what's being played on the radio? And was the voice basically telling the listener by the next time you hear that "pop" (i.e. hip hop that's passing for popular music) this will be "in you" and make it hard for you to hear what's on the radio the same after hearing this?

 

[CapitalOne]

i think that the album is great, my favorite release this year

my favs are:

alright
hood politics
for free
the blacker the berry
complexion
mortal man
momma
you ain't gotta lie

4.5/5

 

[UserNameless]

"the ground is gonna open up and swallow the evil..." ... ... thank you Lord. ... I can't wait.

 

[Pool_Shark]

Your potential is bittersweet