Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly (2015)

rousing applause for that rhythm section, plz

that's the opposite of a jam, it's a structured, tight as fuck prog-hop exocet. amazing

breh

british people gettin' excited, deal

the way he builds up steam to that final section is breathtaking

super-saiyan is a fair (and oft-youtube commented) assessment

i keep watching the king kunta video, it's hypnotic. the camera moves and the dancing, all of it. there's this part from abt 2:08 to 2:27 where kendrick and everyone else starts dancing to their left then they move back right and the camera shifts with them and idk if it was thoroughly choreographed but it's amazing.

as far as the TPAB era videos go

Kunta > i > Alright > For Free? > u/For Sale? > These Walls

"Never Catch Me" would be right up there

"never catch me" is #1 in that list for me because i cant watch it without sobbing

definitely think kendrick is some new & incomprehensible source of power, where are things like this even coming from. so cool to get to watch somebody going clear in front of your eyes

what a weird song to throw the old "slam poetry" accusation at, it's just a rap song w/o 16 bar verse and chorus structure.

par for the course imo, nobody thinks about what something might be doing musically now, they just look for "what's the nearest association I can make w/this." this is a consequence of the speed of social media imo and isn't really a knock on anybody personally tbh, it's just how it is now - ppl reflect for about 60 seconds, and as soon as they have a near referent, that's their opinion

"never catch me" is #1 in that list for me because i cant watch it without sobbing

^^^^

Probably my favorite music video this decade.

the fact that he hasn't released a studio version of the Colbert song 13 months later gives me dim hope but i'll really be bummed if the Tonight Show song never gets released, i really think it might be one of my favorite things he's ever done.

what a weird song to throw the old "slam poetry" accusation at, it's just a rap song w/o 16 bar verse and chorus structure.

― some dude, Friday, January 8, 2016 7:32 PM (19 minutes ago)

eh it was a first impression, based mostly on delivery. Shit's tight.

he seems to have a lot of worthy stuff just lying around, i.e. the track that showed up in that Beats by Dre commercial a couple years back

wow that was intense

one thing i will say about this incredible song & performance is that his sex raps are getting no less cringey

also it kind of does have a chorus

for once jimmy fallon's good golly gosh guffawing shtick was entirely appropriate for the moment

Prog-hop was what came to my mind too, it was a good performance but, like tpab, I'm not sure it's great music.

well yeah it has a chorus i just mean it doesn't pop up after every 16 bars of verses

idk man it isn't my absolute favourite but it's just so intense, it makes claims to greatness that deserve anyone's consideration

waiting for the 'hip-hop is in its 1970s' thinkpieces

Nah, 1966. Kendrick is prob the most convincing "new Dylan" since Dylan (tho no one has labelled him as such cuz that label is p much beyond stale, sorry) and a lot of the soundcloud trap music is prob comparable to Nuggets-style bands

Snyways, this is probably dumb, so disregard if u want

Nah, Kendrick is the rap Cobain, a brilliant, self-loathing loner. TDE is Sub Pop.

Tolstoy is the Tolstoy of the zulus

everybody please stop

Are Migos the Thelonious Monk of nu-rap?

kendricks a virtuoso

never thought the best song of 2016 would be brought to me by jimmy fallon

dude just won the fuckin' Grammys with that performance.

That performance was insane. Just incredible.

Shitty that their censors wouldn't even let "we hate po-po when they kill us dead on the streets" in there

Yeah, that was bs.

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https://play.spotify.com/album/5WSPnYTQ6YZ1UvBRi5quhO

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Whoa what??

thanks lebron!

http://www.complex.com/music/2016/03/it-looks-like-a-new-kendrick-lamar-project-will-be-released-soon?utm_campaign=complexmag&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

sounds like probably the 'untitled' TPAB outtakes that he's been performing on TV shows. pretty excited, i was starting to resign myself to the assumption that he'll never release a studio version of the track he did on Fallon.

can we get the full version of the joint from the "Alright" video too?

yeah i hope that's in there too

yeah I hope these are studio versions but the word unmastered being in the title doesn't give me hope

the fallon track might be one of his GOATs imo

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/untitled-unmastered./id1089846273

in a stunning development this is completely great

feeling the vibe of this a whole bunch, cant believe swizz/keys baby boy produced 07, fucked up, gotta get my son in the studio tomorrow, im taking the day off

only the jammy second half

Into this - I've been wanting him to do a more off-the-cuff/lower-stakes release for a while and this fits the bill

are these all from the tpab sessions or what

I'm liking this. Not as purely dazzling as TPAB, but I kinda enjoy that the stakes are a bit lower

whoa, here's a surprise