On February 28, 2014, Kendrick Lamar first revealed plans for releasing a follow-up to his second studio album,
good kid, m.A.A.d city (2012), during an interview with
Billboard.
[4] In an interview with
Rolling Stone magazine, he was quoted as saying, "Just putting the word 'pimp' next to 'butterfly'… It's a trip. That's something that will be a phrase forever. It'll be taught in college courses — I truly believe that."
[5] Lamar would later reveal that the album's original title was Tu Pimp a Caterpillar, which was an homage in its abbreviation to Tupac Shakur. In an interview with MTV, Lamar said: "Tu Pimp a Caterpillar was the original name and they [Dead End Hip Hop] caught it because the abbreviation was Tupac, Tu-P-A-C
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Lmao you bytch ass fukk bwoi. How dare you try to make up shyt,when the truth is already out there. You're making a fool of yourself
HE'S CLEARLY MASQUERADING HIMSELF AS ANOTHER 2PAC,YOU CLOWN ASS nikka GTFOH