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

[doublenegative]

Fire brah

 

[Bawon Samedi]

For those who are interested...

NY Daily News - 5/5

The Guardian - 4/5

GQ - Very Favorable

Sputnik Music - 5/5

Cleveland - A-

AXS - Favorable

Billboard - 9/10

Chicago Tribune - 4/4

Rap Reviews - 9/10

Complex - 4.5/5

HipHopDX - 5/5

Pop Matters - 9/10

Examiner - 4/5

The Needle Drop - 10/10

AV Club - A-

Pretty Much Amazing - 10/10

Now Magazine - 5/5

HipHopDX - 5/5

NY Times - 4/5

NME - 8/10

LA Times - 4/5

Pitchfork Media - 9.3/10

Allhiphop - 9.5/10

Rollingstone - 4.5/5

Slant Magazine - 4.5/5

Spin Magazine - 10/10

HotNewHipHop - 97/100

Exclaim - 9/10

 

[wire28]

Do you listen to The Roots? Foreign Exchange? Robert Glasper? Any modern black adult R&B, jazz, or fusion?

No?

OK.

Thought so.

This shyt has sounded like the last 10 years of adult contemporary music....but most of you haven't even listened to stuff like this before.

i dont know why im addressing this but

he probably just outsold all of their recent music in one haphazard release week. thats why its a big deal. he just brought all their sounds that have been being ignored to the mainstream.

the entire album was a risk since people expected GKMC pt 2 and got a funk/neosoul/jazz album. no other prominent rapper would do that, including your hero aubrey

 

[Brady-Carter]

Live version is better.

Not feeling it(in the context of the album). Like i said it is probably b/c I have listen to the CDQ version so many times.

 

[the cool]

Man, I shouldn't have to let an album grow on me or give it 5+ spins to really judge it or like it. If someone puts some shyt food in front of me, I'm not going to eat half the damn meal before I decide its garbage. The album was decent after two listens (the second with headphones), but it wasnt soul shattering or anything like that. I just hope the same people telling others how to listen to it do the same with other rappers they don't fukk with. It'll be interesting to see how many of these same people will be calling Drake or kanye album garbage after one listen.

And @ someone being a c00n or a cac just because they don't like this.

@ someones ability to understand music being called into question because they think its garbage.

When did rap snobs become a thing? These dudes are just as pretentious and obnoxious as the dude they idol

Beer.

shyts awful the first time but gets better and better each time.

Sit down fukkboy

 

[wire28]

Kendrick likes to have these little characters in his albums(since its a story) "Sherena" or whatever her name was, was the character centered in GKMC. Now its Lucy(Devil). Like I said Lucy wants Kendrick to adopt to consumerism like these other rappers and rap about the same cliche shyt like money, cars and all that other crap. Fighting against consumerism is one of the main themes of this album. Lucy basically is the antagonist trying to corrupt Kendrick and make him sell out. This is why I LOVE "For Sale?" Because it tells us Kendrick wont be selling out(for a while now).

Show my mother the song and she liked it.

yeah that is dope

i when lucy is like she heard the prayers on the other album but she dont mind

and when she says she's at all the functions

 

[DAlbert]

Kendrick likes to have these little characters in his albums(since its a story) "Sherena" or whatever her name was, was the character centered in GKMC. Now its Lucy(Devil). Like I said Lucy wants Kendrick to adopt to consumerism like these other rappers and rap about the same cliche shyt like money, cars and all that other crap. Fighting against consumerism is one of the main themes of this album. Lucy basically is the antagonist trying to corrupt Kendrick and make him sell out. This is why I LOVE "For Sale?" Because it tells us Kendrick wont be selling out(for a while now).

Show my mother the song and she liked it.

na I got the whole different voices thing, I just figured it was one of his homies talking

"If you scared go to church, but he knows the bible too" he being a referenced to Lucifer


most of the themes, references, and symbols I've gotten so far but theres a lot of detail

 

[wire28]

Not feeling it(in the context of the album). Like i said it is probably b/c I have listen to the CDQ version so many times.

i really wish he woulda finished the song but those fukk nikkas ( dont even ask me how ) had to go and ruin it for everybody

 

[Bawon Samedi]

yeah that is dope

i when lucy is like she heard the prayers on the other album but she dont mind

and when she says she's at all the functions

I when the devil says he knows the bible too. The song is just flat out creepy because it has an innocent/calm surface, but sinister underneath.

 

[Revolutionary]

 

[Bawon Samedi]

na I got the whole different voices thing, I just figured it was one of his homies talking

"If you scared go to church, but he knows the bible too" he being a referenced to Lucifer


most of the themes, references, and symbols I've gotten so far but theres a lot of detail

Yeah that's the devil, the bolded.

And agreed that there's alot of details.

 

[KravenMorehead™]

Kendrick tries to be conscious with this album but it ends up being the same ol shyt. First off, he uses the word nikka too many times in a non creative way. Second, he starts to make a point about something but never follows through with the thought. It just sounds like someone trying to be deep but just isn't

http://thehippestkidsintown.tumblr..../kendrick-lamar-to-pimp-a-butterfly-explained

 

[DAlbert]

People coming out the woodworks like

"this album isn't so bad after all"

GKMC def got more initial hate than this time, the m.A.A.d city turn up crowd / vine lovers prob still gon hate TPAB

 

[reserved_one]

Yea Kendrick retire from your job after like 4 years

Bruh no rapper retires, certainly not in they prime

true true

I know...I know. Rappers never truly retire....they always comeback but what I'm actually saying is that he could take a long hiatus away from music and just chill, enjoy life, start a family, etc...what he ever wants to do. I'm sure he's well off fiancially. Kendrick could pull a Lauren Hill/D'Angelo and just return whenever he feels like it. He's reached that plateau...His fans still gonna be there to support him no matter what.

But I think he loves the artform way too much to do that but we'll see.

 

[Stone]

Thats actually the devil i.e "Lucy". Not his homeboy.

In hood politics, which is the song he was quoting , that is one of his homies