Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly (2015)

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)

Unnecessary parentheses

so is there gonna be some ridiculously expensive vinyl package? I kinda want the vinyl after I broke down and dl'd a leaked version, want to give him some $$$

The vinyl will probably come out in July or something. The D'angelo album finally came out on vinyl last week!

yeah i'm still waiting for my d'angelo LP to show up in the post

does dook bootie mean good?

― flopson, Wednesday, March 18, 2015 2:35 PM Bookmark

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XD

good kid, d.O.O.k. bootie

read the KL review in the NYT, maybe i'll listen to this

he was on npr today too; i think by the end of next week he'll be the guy that everybody who doesn't listen to rap is talking about

he was, or the album was? just googled but can only find an album review

may just have been an album review. got a text from my mom about it of the "isn't this that guy you were talking about" variety.

Chappelle's closing music tonight

According to Spotify (and calculations by Hopes&Fears), Lamar probably made between $921,600 and $1,290,240 in twenty-four hours.

http://www.hopesandfears.com/hopes/now/pop-stuff/168737-how-much-money-did-kendrick-lamar-make-on-spotify-yesterday

I can't see what they're linking to regarding Spotify's earlier record. What album was that?

on first listen i think the 'ambitious failure'/'its a mess' response is a bit wide of the mark. its not easy to listen to, im not even sure its that enjoyable to listen to, its very proggy in a lot of ways, but im not sure i can begrudge that, or think it fails in whats its meant to be/do. i think it does what it sets out to do.

it was the Drake mixtape from last month xpost

Listened to this on the way into work. As a heretofore Kendrick agnostic, I can safely say I'm sold on this record as an instant classic. Is it fair to draw comparisons to the D'Angelo record? Or is that just a cover-connection Definitely a Badu vibe going on too, but this record is extremely dense on first listen, a lot to take in in one go.

Oh, it was just Drake? Somehow makes it less cool.

more badu than dangelo, mainly for the producers involved/type of production at least, though obv its much more west coast

i find the production and delivery A LOT more immediate than his previous records, which always sounded a bit thin and insubstantial to me.

hmmm i swear that's axelrod but maybe i'm wrong

it sounds a lot like "Holy Thursday" but i'm pretty sure it's not

def flashes of outkast, quik, etc but like its all of that stuff post-fly lo/sa-ra/detroit. the rapping is some of the most 'difficult' ive heard on a big rap album in a long time. actually makes me think of eminem (as well as a ton of LA underground guys)

U is seriously amazing btw

http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/digital-and-mobile/6502416/kendrick-lamars-to-pimp-a-butterfly-sets-first-day

According to Billboard, someone named Michael Buble was the previous Spotify record holder. Now I try to stay somewhat on top of things, but I've never heard of Buble. Did Drake beat Buble too?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/Michael_Buble_by_Dallas_Bittle_crop.jpg

buble's christmas album is probably the most popular in the past decade and it says that that was the previous record-holder (it probably set the record last holiday season or something)

we tried to watch boobly's christmas special on hulu and it was so boring. had to turn it off. and i just kept thinking of the family guy dude when he was singing...

the bubbly once came into our shop to complain that he was 4 places lower in our album chart in comparison to the official chart, and what were we gonna do about it. I shrugged. He left.

According to Spotify (and calculations by Hopes&Fears), Lamar probably made between $921,600 and $1,290,240 in twenty-four hours.

wow. very impressive. I always had the idea there was no money for artists on Spotify and else... apparently I was wrong.
1 million $ : pretty good way to start the week for kendrick !

i assume you're being sarcastic but buble is phenomenally popular and i guess now that I think about it totally avoidable with minimal effort
also, i would like to hear Kendrick's management's estimate of what he made on spotify as opposed to the company's?

also damn you for putting "beautiful day" in my head now

if you have to break an all time record just to make $1million that's prob shitty

for everyone else

my sister would like you guys to know that she's been listening to Bubbles since 2004

but is it an all time record ? I mean, kendrick is big but surely there are bigger sellers/stars on spotify (drake ?)
and then there are the sells on iTunes which surely made him some big money too.
+ 1 million in 24h is A LOT of money !

funny, an hour ago a friend sent me this : http://www.skyrange.net/highest-paid-musicians-2014-earnings-per-second

and I was wondering who the hell michael buble was !

i will never understand online $ numbers. i read this recently and it really did seem like peanuts:

Spotify's per-stream payouts for songs played by its users are low. At the accepted industry average of just under 0.4p per stream, 1m Spotify downloads pays out around £3,800 – small beer for a band like Pink Floyd, whose career album sales are counted in the hundreds of millions.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/jun/17/pink-floyd-back-catalogue-spotify

though that's songs, not a whole album. still, seems like nothing.

that billboard article has a faaaaar smaller estimate for that 24 hour haul

How much is that worth? A Spotify representative confirmed that the 9.6 million represents any stream from the record, meaning Lamar's new long-player brought in about $44,160 in a single day globally, according to Billboard estimates.

lol

the confusion that number and hopesandfears' is that hopesandfears is assuming the entire album got played 9.6m times, and billboard seems to have gotten a correction on that front

and even then the question is how much of that goes right to lamar