Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly (2015)

huh, totally different "i", more explicit statement than song; still don't think i want to listen to this for fun but he earns it
dunno about the questionable etymology lesson but "mortal man" is on and i'm not worried about it

i really love the monologue that slowly builds through the middle of the record? and which certain songs seem to be specific expansions of?

yeah I'm nowhere near parsing out any of that

Who is he talking to at the end of the album?

wait til the end

just got it that he's interviewing pac in mortal man, very clever, very ballsy

Ahhhh. I misheard the very end before.

goddamn, this poem at the end is right the fuck on
and oh i c he calls out to pac at the end

this is a pretty brilliant album; i am looking forward to listening the shit out of it

So good so far, and only at These Walls.

oh awesome

billboard people on Twitter were saying that everything was planned, idk what top dawg's tweet was about

― J0rdan S., Monday, March 16, 2015 1:26 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'm thinking that was about the clean version being on itunes like an hour before the explicit version and people just misinterpreted it

Yeah, that makes the most sense.

Haven't listened to this yet but can't believe knxwledge has a beat on this

Pretty cool

this album is really way too dense for me to remark upon insightfully on one listen but... that was quite a listen. i would like to say i never felt it was drifting into self-consciously arty/impenetrable tedium but that would be a lie tbh. but then so much of it is also puzzling/bizarre/thrilling/surprising in the best way? idk, end of hot take i guess. time to sleep and then prob listen again.

Definite blaxploitation 70's Parliamenty vibe - with a contemporary production. Reminds me a little so far of that Badu album from a few years ago. Long way to go yet though.

laughable album title. so corny.

- Arctic Noon Auk

shit, wrong thread

Graffiti Bridge

This went way left

On some Andy kellman core lol

I think I like it but not what I expected

first skim listen it's better than his last album

It's definitely making more bold musical choices but I'm not ready to say it's better. He's digging deeper but it's even more oblique

I think he struggles a bit as an MC, he's a bit forced and unnatural, but he's made lots of interesting musical and production choices on this album which definitely puts him far above his current peers non of whom seem able to put out an interesting album.

Album sounds so good.

this is so great. Sounds like some lost classic rap album from 1998.

oh they just put a live version of "i" on here? that's lame, biggest misstep on the album imo

Yeah, this can get it.

you sound like you bout to fuck the album man

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hoping this is the album that finally sells me on Kendrick. I really really want to like him but just haven't foudn that much of what he does clicks for me yet.

This is outstanding

oh they just put a live version of "i" on here? that's lame, biggest misstep on the album imo
― some dude, Monday, March 16, 2015

totally disagree, the song is already out there and everyone's had access to it for months. it reads to me more of a conscious statement of achievement and a lack of interest in staying put; fatuous for sure but i dunno what the standard version of "i" would've done here instead. Make your own mix and insert it there if you wanna.

these walls damn

barely even noticed the Snoop Dogg bit on the previous track, nice job by kendrick, he's not a guy who usually just blends in.

sufjan sample = credibility

wtg kendrick

Live i was dope

on first lesson, HOLY SHIT

i understand putting an alternate version of "i" on the album, in principle. i just don't think the live version sounds very good and has a sore thumb quality in the context of all the great studio tracks.

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/the-juice/6502232/update-kendrick-lamars-to-pimp-a-butterfly-gets-accidental

xp workin' on our 'It's Gonna Be a Beautiful Night' moves

xp weird, the album's definitely still on spotify

well within the context of the album, the live "i" is the culmination of fame and his being a public figure / speaker; it's the interior monologue running the length of "pimp" given a public megaphone, which leads nicely into the tupac interview as young artist explicitly tries to commune with legendary martyr
but then i never liked "i" much in the first place; i might feel differently if i was looking forward to it showing up in the mix
xp "butterfly" is still on spotify for me? Dunno what that billboard article is on about?

just made it 'available offline' as if that somehow means it can't be taken away ha

I definitely have the explicit version idk

would be kinda pointless to take it down bc anyone who was gonna put it up on the leak sites/torrent networks/etc. has prob already done so, right?

so they wouldn't really be preventing much of anything

This Dicka ain't FREE!!!

This is some next level shit...Lovin it!!!

woah on spotify

It's not on iTunes anymore. Apparently the problem might be with Target, who won't carry titles released digitally before physically.

also I didn't know people hated "i" so much! I always like it but i dunno I liked the kinda quasi kufi Brand New Heavies posi vibes