I dunno if I hate or love that fam pronounced D'jango wrong lol.
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly | (Discussion Thread) *Stream*
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Like Cole, I don't think it's a trend as much as these nikkas just found out the world aint fairLook through this thread you'll see I'm a fan of everything about this album but that was one of the things about the album that has meI remember someone on here making a thread asking if Pro-Black is the new trend.
Pool_Shark
Can’t move with me in this digital space
Yeah. I was talking to my wife about it and she said the same thing. These works were inspired by the events that have taken place over the recent years in America. I'm just trying to think of this album from different angles. The production on this stands out so much you forget that Kendrick is rapping his ass off, switching between characters, changing his flow, pronouncing words a certain way to sell the rhymes.
Big Mel
@bigboss
from the Terrace Martin interview with Complex:
I don’t know what to call this album. Some people call it jazz. I just call it a bunch of the homies playing, and going hard. It’s heavily jazz-influenced, but it’s heavily black in general! We didn’t listen to the Beatles to do this record. No disrespect. We didn’t listen to the Who, we didn’t listen to the Rolling Stones. We listened to Parliament. We listened to John Coltrane. We listened to Biggie. We listened to ’Pac. We listened to Lord Finesse. We listened to Don Blackman, Marcus Miller. We listened to Bernard Wright, Kenny Garret, Sonny Stitt, "Cannonball" Adderley, Ambrose (Akinmusire), we listened to Freddie Hubbard and Clark Terry. A Tribe Called Quest was a huge influence on this record. Jimi Hendrix, B.B. King, Guitar Shorty, Bobby Blue Bland, Little Walter, Little Richard—all the Littles!
http://www.complex.com/music/2015/03/interview-terrace-martin-producer-to-pimp-a-butterfly
Don Blackmon, Marcus Miller & BARNYARD WRIGHT?????
NYC stand up.
from the Terrace Martin interview with Complex:
I don’t know what to call this album. Some people call it jazz. I just call it a bunch of the homies playing, and going hard. It’s heavily jazz-influenced, but it’s heavily black in general! We didn’t listen to the Beatles to do this record. No disrespect. We didn’t listen to the Who, we didn’t listen to the Rolling Stones. We listened to Parliament. We listened to John Coltrane. We listened to Biggie. We listened to ’Pac. We listened to Lord Finesse. We listened to Don Blackman, Marcus Miller. We listened to Bernard Wright, Kenny Garret, Sonny Stitt, "Cannonball" Adderley, Ambrose (Akinmusire), we listened to Freddie Hubbard and Clark Terry. A Tribe Called Quest was a huge influence on this record. Jimi Hendrix, B.B. King, Guitar Shorty, Bobby Blue Bland, Little Walter, Little Richard—all the Littles!
http://www.complex.com/music/2015/03/interview-terrace-martin-producer-to-pimp-a-butterfly
Like my homie said, "You gotta be a c00n to dislike this record"
What kills me is that people still talk about this like it's a jazz/g-funk album when still about over half the beats are still beats typical of a hip-hop album. I'd say only 5 of the 16 beats (Wesley, For Free, King Kunta, U, I) are truly outlandish jazz/g-funk type beats
Yo anyone..can i have a fresh link for this..mucho gracias!!
iliketurtles
Do Right And Kill Everything
We can stop acting like we care about this shytty album... Its already been forgotten about Racc00n is making it too easy for Drake 
y'all never noticed this? you have to have a short attention span not to realize that
On my first couple listens to an album, I'm just listening, seeing which songs I like, peeping the production etc. Not really dissecting or analyzing it closely
The Blacker The Berry comes on right after Complexion ("complexion don't mean a thing"), which is a similar sentiment to "fukk your ethnicity". Then, he STARTS TBTB by saying "I'm the biggest hypocrite of 2015".
In the context of the album, I just looked at it as the Yin to Complexion's Yang. A lot of the greatest artists recognize their own hypocrisy ('Pac, Nas, Kanye). That's just human condition.
Kendrick made soul music with this record bottom line. And that's what I tend to judge black artists by more than anything.
Could really care if you can rap your ass off technically. Because few artists especially rappers have the ability to make legitimate music from the Soul and not sound corny
Kendrick did that with TPAB
Could really care if you can rap your ass off technically. Because few artists especially rappers have the ability to make legitimate music from the Soul and not sound corny
Kendrick did that with TPAB