Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly (2015)

what does that mean exactly

he hopes that they do a black hippy album w/the crew?

Black Hippy is the rap collective that Kendrick came up as part of

oh!

i am trying to imagine what you thought that might mean

I thought he was describing a sound or something, which is why I was confused.

Too bad he's the only one of them making music worth a damn.

yeah he outshines the rest by so far I would think such an enterprise would be fraught with battling egos, concessions, etc.

i prefer this to good kid but i was always more impressed with good kid than i actually loved it

I've been slow to warm to him - didn't like Section 80 at all and maybe heard Good Kid like twice before forgetting about it but this one has definitely grabbed me

I cherrypicked with GKMC but I let this one run the whole way

Too bad he's the only one of them making music worth a damn.

― longneck, Wednesday, March 18, 2015 12:39 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

schoolboy Q's habits & contradictions and oxymoron are both good and occasionally excellent imo but a lot of ppl were very disappointed by oxymoron

as for the other guys, ab-soul and jay rock are only ever good as feature rappers (and sometimes soul especially is meh), the isaiah rashad album was solid but i need to hear more from him before making an informed qualitative judgment

i like absoul's work quite a lot. Schoolboy prior to oxymoron is great and even oxy is pretty good. Rashad's first feature was excellent. jay has never clicked for me.

This album is exhausting.

Part of why I never jumped in on Lamar is that my feeling was (and still remains, mostly) that the other Black Hippy guys were more interesting/better

This is shifting somewhat because Ab Soul and Schoolboy Q have fallen off in the past 12 months

Rashad and KL seem to have the most potential to be great out of the BH crew. KL's already demonstrated that. Really looking forward to a proper Isaiah Rashad album.

Jay Rock's 'Follow Me Home' is really good.

I liked Cilvia Demo a lot last year but have grown to love it in the last couple weeks.

no one talking about how bad his rapping is

― Arctic Noon Auk, Wednesday, March 18, 2015 1:02 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

bc no one agrees with you

All of Q's albums have really great moments but are inconsistent.

Ab-Soul's Control System is totally on par with Section.80, if maybe not the last two Kendrick albums, but the album he put out last year was dook bootie.

Jay Rock's been killing everything he touches but just can't get it together to release his own project, which I would highly anticipate. Follow Me Home was pretty good but that was years ago.

Jay Rock has improved a lot since his first album

what Rev' said

rev otm

no one talking about how bad his rapping is

― Arctic Noon Auk, Wednesday, March 18, 2015 1:02 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

also no one talking about how this is a Bluegrass album

no one is talking about how many garbage cans racoons knock over

meanwhile, in the fucking drake thread

late to this, best of the year so far.

― Arctic Noon Auk, Wednesday, March 18, 2015 8:20 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

looooooool

yes, but you see, Drake is deep

this is good but its not a drake mixtape

All of Q's albums have really great moments but are inconsistent.

Ab-Soul's Control System is totally on par with Section.80, if maybe not the last two Kendrick albums, but the album he put out last year was dook bootie.

Jay Rock's been killing everything he touches but just can't get it together to release his own project, which I would highly anticipate. Follow Me Home was pretty good but that was years ago.

― raih dednelb (The Reverend), Wednesday, March 18, 2015 1:23 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

word, I check itunes for new Jay Rock stuff at least monthly

great q&a with rapsody about her guest verse:

http://www.mtv.com/news/2106673/rapsody-kendrick-lamar-complexion-a-zulu-love-to-pimp-a-butterfly/

i really liked the last schoolboy q album!

TPAB things I don't like :

Musically some beats are kinda slight compared to the rest of the album (for sale, complexion, you ain't gotta lie)
live version of I
"the ghost of mandela"/ ridiculous tupac interview.

http://rapmusichysteria.blogspot.com/2015/03/in-conclusion-to-pimp-butterfly-is-very.html

the beats dont bother me; some of the vocals do. fauntleroy sounds amazing of course

by vocals i obviously dont mean kendrick who kills it

That leads me to wonder, what is the rap music Hysteria ?

it's not NOT a rap album

(xps)

lol

It's not not not not a rap album

nb it's totally a rap album i don't get that footnote

It's not a rap album. It's more than that.

It is non-non-non-non-NON-Heinous.

$20 for a physical copy? WHY

does dook bootie mean good?

all the guest verses on this are explosively good

Xp: lol, I was about to start a thread yesterday called "slightly more expensive then usual albums"

i mean the official digital is $15, right? 'cause he can i guess.

(It was about $15 on iTunes. That same price point has kept me from buying that Beyonce record that came out last year, but I plunked down for this)

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