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

[jamaicaiwonder1993]

The stannery dedication this nikka's fans got is unprecedented

Swear every single is the best on album... that is till the next flopped single is released

350 page thread for an average album

They take months off only to come back reciting the same bullshyt they did 6 months ago knowing the shyt ain't true

Atleast he did name drop Dre,eazy e, piru sets, Big & Pac for two discs straight

 

[FS4LFE]

Damn I want a new Kendrick album....

 

[OfTheCross]

 

[Easy-E]

What did Source/XXL give this and GKMC???

 

[Dominic Brehetto]

Complex gotta be the fukking woat. Or theyre on drakes payroll.


Every day on my timeline they posting drake memes and articles about how drake is the best rapper alive.

Then today they post an article about how tpab was actually garbage and that people are just pretending to like it.

 

[BiggWebb79]

 

[BiggWebb79]

This the guy that wrote that complex article on cacplex about tpab

, I "got" the album's messages and themes but couldn’t grasp the motivations for the album’s sound. Why, in 2015, would a recently platinum-selling rapper make a jazz album with Lalah Hathaway, Ron Isley, and George Clinton?

Songs like "Institutionalized" and "Complexion" are sleepier than compassionate critics might've wanted to admit when the album dropped. I’m not saying that no one loves To Pimp a Butterfly. I’m saying that no one enjoys this album as much as we'd hoped we'd enjoy it in March.

At Slate, the music critic Carl Wilson asked, “How should white listeners approach the ‘overwhelming blackness’ of Kendrick Lamar’s brilliant new album?” and that’s when I realized that To Pimp a Butterfly had instantly become the biggest paradox of 2015: This bizarre and supposedly “challenging” album was universally acclaimed and unimpeachable indeed.

Ultimately, Complex awarded Kendrick’s latest album 4.5 stars out of five, and we stand by what I wrote in March. But here I’ll add that I enjoyed much of the earlier music that I discovered or revisited thanks to To Pimp a Butterfly more than I enjoy Kendrick’s album itself. I’ll insist that, as a musician and public intellectual, Kendrick Lamar seems to have way more in common with Chuck D than with 2Pac, so the whole “Mortal Man” narrative strikes me as a strange embrace. And, finally, I’ll note that, for such an instantly classic record, To Pimp a Butterfly buckles without “King Kunta” and “Alright.

 

[Piff Perkins]

NY show on youtube

rest are on that guy's profile/suggested videos

brehs that shyt sounds so ill with a live band

 

[jwinfield]

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[Ashtrey]

What did Source/XXL give this and GKMC???

Both got 4.5 mics in the source

 

[JordanwiththeWiz]

 

[We Major]

We want the funk

I had T&Y just ahead of TPAB throughout the year, over the past month or so it's now level

 

[NoHalfWay]

Every nikka is a staaaaaaaaar

 

[loyola llothta]

 

[We Major]