Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly (2015)

you are?

can we honestly rule out Mike Skinner ethan as RT's potential irl identity?

ethan lurks and tries to tell me to post things but he's too shook or something to even make a sock

mike skinner doesn't care about this release

xpost Ain't no such things as halfway socks

There's more black people in Montana than ILM's history. This board is as white as it's background.

yeah, you're right there are fewer than 4,000 black posters on this board

http://www.toonpool.com/user/8420/files/greetings_from_great_britain_797525.jpg

eh, not so fast. He knows about Montana.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjTVmv8p7vo

I can't lie; even though he's supposedly done releasing albums I kinda hope Weird Al drops a Mario-themed KK parody called 'King Koopa'
― let's love Jessica to death (Drugs A. Money)

when you got the shrooms
[WHAT'S THE SHROOMS?]
the shrooms give mario the power
like luigi picking up a fire flower
[oh yes they do oh yes they do]

i can dig stomping
but a plumber with a raccoon tail? what the fuck happened?

i can't stop, but i will stop here

lol

xpost Ain't no such things as halfway socks

ok dying @ this

yea good one

fwiw, I'm a black person who has spent large chunks of time in Montana. Jokes on you, Tanuki.

*is excited to go there next month*

Got nicki yelling "MONTANAAAAAAA!" stuck in my head now

On topic it's repeatedly blowing my mind how incredibly all-time a song King Kunta is, like I hate appeals to timelessness on principle butit kind of is

"Alright" is my #1 jam from this album tho

Right now my #1 jam is the whole thing

Yeah this album really feels like a unified whole type deal.

I can't lie; even though he's supposedly done releasing albums I kinda hope Weird Al drops a Mario-themed KK parody called 'King Koopa'
― let's love Jessica to death (Drugs A. Money)

really having a hard time not thinking about this.
when you got the shrooms
[WHAT'S THE SHROOMS?]
the shrooms give mario the power
like luigi picking up a fire flower
[oh yes they do oh yes they do]

― Premise ridiculous. Who have two potato? (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, April 14, 2015 12:01 PM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i can dig stomping
but a plumber with a raccoon tail? what the fuck happened?

― Premise ridiculous. Who have two potato? (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, April 14, 2015 12:03 PM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i can't stop, but i will stop here

― Premise ridiculous. Who have two potato? (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, April 14, 2015 12:03 PM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

please proceed guv'nor

i was gonna kill a couple goombas but they did it to themselves
everybody's suicidal, they just walk right off the shelf
all my minions are so foolish, they just suicide for fun
i got one that self explodes and another that's a gun
got a flag outside my fortress, fireworks go off again
I should probably lock my door before he comes to be honest
but i put that on my troopas and my baby bowsers too
now he's running down the hallway to my chamber, 'YAHOO!'
aw yeah, fuck the plumber
he's at level 8-4 and there i slumber
a little turtle domed koopa with an axe behind me
my lair's full of pits of lava and fire
screaming "Princess are you okay? Princess are you okay?"
gonna jump right off my back plates
cut the bridge rope, i ain't even gotta hassle
when your princess is a princess in another fucking castle

i'm so ashamed

eh, sub in "got a flag outside my fortress and a moat and forest" and then send to youtube meme central for processing; please make my 43 cent royalty check out to Mr. Tofu

is everyone still listening to this? i dont really feel like going back to it that much. i know its brilliant, i admire it loads, but dont really think i will love it, and thats okay, not everything has to be emotional like that, but it does have this distance. its like rap theatre. i feel like this is the kind of rap album a playwright or novelist would write. obv it could also just be that im not in the mood for anything demanding right now.

I put it on on Sunday evening and had to turn it off because its general density was just too much for my head at that particular moment. This isn't a negative reflection on the album in the slightest.

Too late -- I told Kendrick.

i'm finding it pretty addictive tbh, esp in this weather - though it really clicked in terms of listenability when i started skipping "u". hooks and awesome sonic details everywhere.

yeah, "u" never really clicked for me either.

it's an impressive and admirable track but...i don't want to listen to it ever

i feel like this album is actually revealing itself in a pretty organic and relaxed way now that i've got past the stressful What Does It Mean frenzy of the first week and can just ENJOY it

yeah upthread I said "u" was the only track besides the Tupac dialogue I skip.

As one of the few albums this year I own on CD, it really does benefit from playing in the background while doing housework.

"u" is probably the song I play the most (along with "The Blacker The Berry" and "Alright")

i feel like this album is actually revealing itself in a pretty organic and relaxed way now that i've got past the stressful What Does It Mean frenzy of the first week and can just ENJOY it

― lex pretend, Wednesday, April 15, 2015 8:28 AM (58 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah, i feel this way about a lot of albums now. i like to give em a rest a bit and then come back in a month when it's all died down.

thirded. have recently rediscovered the joy in returning to recent albums several months or a year after they come out. so tempting to always try and keep on top of everything that sometimes you forget about what you actually enjoy.

hey guys remember Black Messiah

u is essential to me, esp since I'm dealing with some depression. It sounds like the self loathing internal monologue I can't shut off and then alright comes on and I'm sobbing basically.

hey guys remember Black Messiah

Only one blickity black blacker than black album can exist in the public conscience at a time iirc

Also I don't really care that much about D'Angelo

we're here to help when you're ready

"Only one blickity black blacker than black album can exist in the public conscience at a time iirc"

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/apr/05/young-fathers-white-men-black-men-too-review

young fathers album is pretty dope on two listens; looking forward to seeing them live in a few months.

Will also be seeing them next month but the sentiment behind their new album is by definition not blickity black blacker than black.

can we get a list of albums that qualify as blickity black blacker than black plz

http://www.revolvermag.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/metallica-metallica.jpg

I only brought up Black Messiah because it generated what feels like a similar critical feeding frenzy (plus it's "dense", uh has a b&w cover etc.) and it's just been intense to have two of these cycles about "important"/"serious" records practically back-to-back.

fwiw Black Messiah has a totally different, more confident, more joyful vibe than TPAB imo

I have a rolling playlist on my phone that I add songs to regularly and shuffle. There are a bunch of tracks from both Black Messiah and TPAB on there, and sometimes they segue into each other. They work well together!

hey guys remember Black Messiah
Only one blickity black blacker than black album can exist in the public conscience at a time iirc

― tsrobodo, Wednesday, April 15, 2015 7:23 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

and it will never be the jazmine sullivan album, sigh