Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly (2015)

I don't think the original "i" would have worked as well, at least not without a remix. It's too bright and peppy; the earthier tone of the album version is a better fit.

went through the album twice last night and the first half three times this morning, holding up very very well

Are we wasting time discussing its release (yawn) b/c we're still absorbing the album?

idk about what the standouts will be at the end of the day but i'd say the most accessible/standalone tracks all came out or leaked before the full album did

not heard this yet but just looking at the tracklisting, am getting a strong sense that this album is going to be pretty corny. did not want/do not want kendrick doing a funk album. or an avant-funk album. did not actually really want him doing a political album either. hes always seemed like someone who does introspection better than anything else. feel like it might be the massacre to good kid's get rich or die trying.

you're basing all that off of a tracklisting?

correct. also thinking dr dre didnt have much of a role on this album, which is also unfortunately why its likely to be kendrick's the massacre, or the doggfather.

i had never heard of rapsody before but her contribution is great

it's...pretty focused on introspection & how that plays into political/social attitudes, not really going on rants like someone trying to be the 2nd coming of stic.man (or worse, immortal technique)

/whispers/ dre didn't have the slighest role on GKMC other than bankrolling it & rapping on two tracks

Dre does backing vocals on one track, which is probably slightly more involvement than necessary from him in 2015

I like the live version of I and it's necessary at that point in the record - its very looseness means that it feels like a colossal release of tension after a very dense and tricky album. It's a victory lap and it works.

Album is completely overwhelming, after two tracks I was all ready to make a snarky comment about him having hit all his "ambition" KPIs but it just got more and more involving. I was actively irritated when Mortal Man faded out because I'd been hoping it was going to carry on being that good for the whole twelve minutes.

based solely on the track listing I think it's likely this is Kendrick's Confusion is Sex or Bulldozer EP

Are we wasting time discussing its release (yawn) b/c we're still absorbing the album?

I brought it up because I don't have it yet! no one sends me leaks etc

seriously I think the fact that several people have listened to the albuma second time or more is proof that it isn't The Doggfather or the Massacre

Based purely on the tracklisting, I believe this album is a sentient being sent here from Mars to study rhetoric at an Ivy League school.

not heard this yet but just looking at the tracklisting, am getting a strong sense that this album is going to be pretty corny. did not want/do not want kendrick doing a funk album. or an avant-funk album. did not actually really want him doing a political album either. hes always seemed like someone who does introspection better than anything else. feel like it might be the massacre to good kid's get rich or die trying.

― StillAdvance, Monday, March 16, 2015 3:08 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

eight corn emoji

it is you who are the one who is corny

Yeah I'm glad there's not much involvement from Dr Dre on this. I was always worried that Kendrick would end up rapping on top of a beat made by Alex Da Kidd, featuring a hook by Skylar Grey or the guy from Imagine Dragons.

"it is you who are the one who is corny"

ooh!

let us see. am looking forward to hearing it.

kendrick has done plenty of wack and lame collaborations he just doesn't put them on his albums

pretty sure this is still on Spotify and youtube for you guys waiting for links or whatever

the youtube clips sound so terrible. gonna wait to hear it on cd. i mean i've heard enough to know i like it.

spotify is fucking garbage I will never patronize them

youtube clips are a terrible way to hear an album

based on the tracklisting this is actually cover of KMD's Black Bastards in its entirety done with the World's Most Dangerous Band from the David Letterman Show as his backing group

based on the tracklisting i've been listening to the album and couldn't tell you the names of half the songs but it's such a dope album i can't imagine why anyone would care
you guys should read the ingredients in your hot pockets this closely, be the change u wanna see

Listening on Spotify now. Totally lives up to the promise of i and The Blacker The Berry.

I love giving snap judgments abt music so I will post a couple here rn

i like this

I'm not into the first couple tracks, these walls is wonderful, really steely dan-y, that keypboard part in the middle's a really great move, I remember seeing sonnymoon randomly at low end a couple years ago and was blown away, glad anna wise is able to do work for wider audiences

I generally love shit that's all over the place in terms of cramming multiple tracks in one, but I'm not too into it here because the quality control is all over the place for me. I don't care about how the first half of u sounds but the second's something I would want to hear over and over.

I commented on FB earlier that I half expected an uncredited D'Angelo to pop up on this LP

"These Walls" and the George Clinton opener outdo most of good kid -- that's all the hyperbole I'll allow myselfbefore the evening cocktail.

I'm assuming that's kamasi washington all over this so far, his sound's really well integrated into this

Feel like the discourse around this album is going to be an extended game of pomposity trumps so let's get the ball rolling:

RedBullMusicAcademy @RBMA · 3h 3 hours ago
The feeling when you've written yet another Great American Novel. #ToPimpAButterfly

well he subtitled good kid a "short film" so he sort of encourages it

that tweet is going to be studied in college classes in the future

lol i thought last night "ppl are gonna hella describe this album as 'novelistic'" thx redbull

these walls was a song I enjoyed that's the end of my liveblog for now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrc0KepIM3o

lol

who the fuck invented that stupid jump-cut vlogger editing style?

Jean-Luc Godard

...

'm assuming that's kamasi washington all over this so far, his sound's really well integrated into this

As far as I can tell he's on one track? Majority of the sax is Terrace Martin

It's irritating, but at least it's not obnoxious like the editting in an Anthony Fantano review.

i was wishing there were some way i could understand this album through the perspective of a pair of meet-cute upper middle class vloggers... and now there is!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J4ND7oby0w

"touring with kanye, he might have gotten a little bit of influence to do all that soul stuff"
willywonka.jpeg

lol, dude gave it off the top of his head an "8.8"
WITH AUTHORITY

is that what people think music nerds look like now : /