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

[drugxglory]

This album is a experience. Loved that convo with Pac

 

[MenacingMonk]

Overrated. Cats making this album out to be Dark Side of The Moon.

People must be hypnotized by the beats because his lyrical content is nothing memorable. All I hear is his experiences which I couldn't careless about.

Only 3-4 tracks have replay value to me.

 

[Anbesa]

Breh there's a conspiracy to stop this album from getting to people. I'm at my local best buy to buy the album. I'm looking on the selves and don't see it anywhere. I go up to some random cac employee and ask him if he can check if they have a CD in stock. He asks me what CD.
Me: "To pimp a butterfly.
Him: What?

Me.To....pimp.....a....butter...fly

Is that a new release?
Me: yes

Oh.I see it, it says we have 130 in stock.

So we walk around the store and we can't find it. He goes to the back and still can't find it. Asks some more cacs that work there and they have no idea. I'm sitting here like bruh, I know y'all got it. 10 mins later he comes stock room out of the back telling me it was buried way in the back. Smh

 

[Zero]

Kenny's girl at signing?

Your sig...

 

[Bathing Ape]

ITunes

if you think im dropping 15$ on some shyt i havent heard yet

 

[wire28]

I noticed the Rap Genius is saying he's talking about Compton. Says the kid was throwing around a football like Ricky in Boyz In Tha Hood. But I disagree, I think he went home to Africa in this song and met the boy there. Says he's tossing around a football with ashy ankles...which suggests he's kicking a soccer ball. Kendrick went to South Africa last year, I think that's what he's talking about. Saying we speak the same language but he couldn't understand due to America clouding his mind.

Momma is Africa.

Rap genius actually misunderstood or white washed a lot of the meanings on multiple songs. It's kinda frustrating but was too much to try and correct so I left it alone.

One that made me laugh was on complexion it was like "when slaves and masters had sexual relations" like it was consensual I was like uhh you mean when the slaves were raped?

 

[Piff Perkins]

Rap genius actually misunderstood or white washed a lot of the meanings on multiple songs. It's kinda frustrating but was too much to try and correct so I left it alone.

One that made me laugh was on complexion it was like "when slaves and masters had sexual relations" like it was consensual I was like uhh you mean when the slaves were raped?

I know some of them don't mean ill but yooo.

 

[Busby]

Better beats, better flows, better hooks, I guess u can TPaB is better lyrically ill give it that but does that automatically make it a better album? I personally don't think so....that drake shyt is what I hear ppl bumpin in the street every time I go outside n it's gonna rock until he puts out his next project....there's only a handful of bangers on Kendrick's shyt, the rest ain't movin me sorry

I guess..some people like apple..other people like oranges..

 

[WickedGames]

 

[Piff Perkins]

Kenny's girl at signing?

look at her stare at that cac chick with no fear in her heart. the confidence

 

[NoHalfWay]

fukk am I supposed to do when I'm looking at walkin licks?
The constant big money talk about mansions and foreign whips
The private jets and passports, presidential glass floor
Gold bottles, gold models, sniffin' up the ass for
Instagram flicks, suck a dikk, fukk is this?
One more suck away from wavin' flashy wrist
My defense mechanism tell me to get him, quickly because he got it
It's the recession, then why the fukk he in King of Diamonds?
No more livin' poor, meet my four-four
When I see 'em, put the per diem on the floor
Now Kendrick, know they're your co-workers
But it's gon' take a lot for this pistol go cold turkey
Now I can watch his watch on the TV and be okay
But see I'm on the clock once that watch landin' in LA
Remember steal from the rich and givin' it back to the poor?
Well that's me at these awards
I guess my grandmama was warnin' a boy
She said...

 

[Ziggiy]

Brought TWO copies to support quality Hip Hop

 

[Ziggiy]

Breh there's a conspiracy to stop this album from getting to people. I'm at my local best buy to buy the album. I'm looking on the selves and don't see it anywhere. I go up to some random cac employee and ask him if he can check if they have a CD in stock. He asks me what CD.
Me: "To pimp a butterfly.
Him: What?

Me.To....pimp.....a....butter...fly

Is that a new release?
Me: yes

Oh.I see it, it says we have 130 in stock.

So we walk around the store and we can't find it. He goes to the back and still can't find it. Asks some more cacs that work there and they have no idea. I'm sitting here like bruh, I know y'all got it. 10 mins later he comes stock room out of the back telling me it was buried way in the back. Smh

It's not a conspiracy it's the issue with the early release, it's STILL in the Best Buy RSS (our inventory) as available on the 23rd, and we have a VERY strict policy against breaking street dates for new releases. My store just got our copies in yesterday and we just put them out today our POS system wouldn't even allow it to be rung out until today

 

[Ineedmoney504]

Breh there's a conspiracy to stop this album from getting to people. I'm at my local best buy to buy the album. I'm looking on the selves and don't see it anywhere. I go up to some random cac employee and ask him if he can check if they have a CD in stock. He asks me what CD.
Me: "To pimp a butterfly.
Him: What?

Me.To....pimp.....a....butter...fly

Is that a new release?
Me: yes

Oh.I see it, it says we have 130 in stock.

So we walk around the store and we can't find it. He goes to the back and still can't find it. Asks some more cacs that work there and they have no idea. I'm sitting here like bruh, I know y'all got it. 10 mins later he comes stock room out of the back telling me it was buried way in the back. Smh

Stop it breh, Kendrick not that important breh. U expected that to know the album name breh, this isn't a mj, jays or Beyoncé album

And the album release date was set for next week so I'm sure slot of stores have it sitting in the back

 

[Ineedmoney504]

It's not a conspiracy it's the issue with the early release, it's STILL in the Best Buy RSS (our inventory) as available on the 23rd, and we have a VERY strict policy against breaking street dates for new releases. My store just got our copies in yesterday and we just put them out today our POS system wouldn't even allow it to be rung out until today

Yea nikkaz go way to far sometimes