Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly (2015)

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)

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

........

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.