Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly (2015)

you gonna trust Pharrell's testimony after recent events?

Probably best of the new trax

Yeah deej thats the one, also this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1VO9TahbE4

"Every producer I’ve ever met was sending me stuff, but there was a one-in-a-million chance you could send a beat that actually fit what we were doing."

this guy's memory obv doesnt go back past 2000.

after hearing blacker the berry and kunta, is this whole album going to have kendrick doing his angry voice? i guess this album is him playing at being angry, rather than actually having turned into gunplay or MOP, but not sure thats going to make it that enjoyable to listen to. the whole 'album to be studied in colleges' thing doesnt fill me with enthusiasm either, but this might be the most politicised/aggressive mainstream rap album for a long time.

"playing at being angry"?

anyway the three songs released so far all sound p tonally and sonically distinct from one another to me

i mean, it sounds kinda affected. thats prob just the issue i have with kendrick, i dont always *feel* him as much as i admire him, but even so, yeah, its like hes decided he has to or should sound angry, so hes in that 'mode' for this song. for some reason i keep thinking of prince pauls prince among thieves lol

part of the reason I balk at that is that a) "i" doesn't fit into that at all and b) the anger in "Blacker" and "Kunta" sound very distinct from each other to me.

im still looking fwd to this, dont let corny ppl on twitter keep you from appreciating dope music

same

this one is fantastic

Don't feel like anyone talked about catch a fade here? did i miss that? anyway, that was one of the better guest bits imo that was bathed in bay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6TaZiRDqNM

it took a couple listens to get what he was trying to do with "The Blacker..." but as a pure aural experience I love this one immediately.

kendrick can do no wrong in my eyes rn idc

I'd much rather hear Suga Free on the king kunta beat though, kendrick is really boring to me.

De La Soul is Dead is bloated imo.

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, March 11, 2015 7:29 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hey i pay my taxes i shouldn't have to read this kind of shit

Ha

De La Soul Is Dead And Bloated was a little more graphic than its predecessor, i didn't care for that

matt otm

I want it to sound like you’re driving past something.

― j., Wednesday, March 11, 2015 12:09 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

same

https://i.imgur.com/Zjwo4h.jpg

De La Soul is Dead is bloated imo.

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, March 11, 2015 7:29 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hey i pay my taxes i shouldn't have to read this kind of shit

― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, March 14, 2015 11:48 PM

you paid your taxes but not your DUES

man this is the shit

I had like 5 vhs tapes filled with yo MTV raps episodes #paidthecosttobetheboss

http://i.imgur.com/JC76P0o.png

Given the features, "These Walls" miiight be the Colbert track.

part of me was hoping "i" was just a throwaway track lol

It's track 15 on a 16 track album. It may as well be.

Bilal!

the album version of "i" is nearly 2 minutes longer than the one previously released, and considering that the outro is everyone's favorite part of the song, i could really see them making an effort to kinda redeem public opinion of the song with an extended version.

I bet the "I" in the album tracklisting is different from the "i" single that we all know of.

I might be overthinking this, but:

1. The single was lowercase. The "I" above is the capital letter, which would go along with the "U" title.
2. Usually, with iTunes, when there's a single/previously released song that corresponds with an album, the single/previously released song can be bought as a stand-alone song in the album tracklisting but with "I", no.

And yeah, different track lengths.

It's the same song, Kendrick has said as much. Likely (as sd suggested) with an extended outro.

also, it's grown on me a lot, and it's complemented/contrasted nicely by the other tracks we've heard so far.

I'm excited for the George Clinton feature, love it when growls all over a hip-hop track

for yo sorrows>>>>

it's cool that between "King Kunta" and the Clinton feature he seems to be embracing funk with this record -- if he'd done it on the last album it might've seemed kind of obvious like oh west coast rapper signs with Dre and brings back G-funk, but it seems to be happening now as a more as a personal choice he came around to organically.

Not to mention the Isleys sample on "i"

Guess that's not "funk" per se

I wouldn't look too much into the difference between "i" and "I". Could just be an iTunes thing.

the snippets on itunes and the songs are the same. "u" and "i" are both lowercase

clean version appears to be downloadable on itunes, normal version remains MIA

That is certainly one release strategy.

maybe this is the normal version and kendrick has forsaken swear words, so the explicit version just has schoolboy q intermittently yelling "fuck" over the album.

I could definitely see that happening a few more LPs down the line.

"these walls" !

Explicit is now up, apparently.

https://play.spotify.com/album/7ycBtnsMtyVbbwTfJwRjSP

the album version of "i" is nearly 2 minutes longer than the one previously released, and considering that the outro is everyone's favorite part of the song, i could really see them making an effort to kinda redeem public opinion of the song with an extended version

wait i thought everyone loved "i"

like, it won 2 grammys...?

wesley's theory is great