Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly (2015)

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

This is great

are these all from the tpab sessions or what

― lag∞n, Friday, March 4, 2016 10:45 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

all the songs are dated and only one of them says '2016' and the rest are 2013/2014 so i'm guessing that yeah this is pretty much the cutting room floor for that album.

i'm gonna start a thread on this if that's cool and C&P all these posts

Kendrick Lamar - untitled, unmastered (2016)

Thinking about the title, untitled unmastered is kind of an interesting choice - are these supposedly rough mixes, or is it a black consciousness statement, I have no title and no master?

I mean, with the whole Kunta Kinte reference on TPAB's breakout track.

it's very deliberate

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/hip-hop/6898260/tde-punch-kendrick-lamar-untitled-unmastered-interview

The second part of the project’s name, though, isn't just a label for the raw recordings. "Everything that we do is deliberate so if you hear something that says Unmastered, we absolutely did that on purpose,” Punch explained. “There’s more than one meaning behind that.

"We’re definitely trying to break chains musically and socially," he continues. "The whole thing to me just represents breaking the chains, whatever those chains might be, whatever chains society puts on you. We’re trying to break those and be free.”

ah, makes sense, I'm definitely too thick to have picked up on that myself

yeah, that's there too.
i like hearing cee-lo's voice on something i enjoy that was released in 2016

https://twitter.com/Yoonginese/status/708464990022463488?s=09

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/03/10/magazine/25-songs-that-tell-us-where-music-is-going.html?_r=1#/kendrick-lamar-the-blacker-the-berry

best thing i've read about "The Blacker The Berry"

Best writer in the world

Wow that piece is outstanding

yeah

Brief History of Seven Killings is the best book I've read in years

When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan?

http://www.thefader.com/2017/03/23/kendrick-lamar-a-cryptic-iv-on-instagram

It would be cool if whatever he does next made him into more of a pop presence, beyond showing up for guest verses on certain hits.

Not necessary for his music to be great, just think it'd be a cool extra

Kendrick never seems content to do the same thing twice, so I imagine album four—out April 7, if his insinuations are to be trusted—won't sound like either GKMC or TPAB. As someone who enjoyed the former more than the latter, I would welcome a poppier album. But I'm sure it will be good either way.

That new song, though! Too many Drake disses to count! Unlike Drake (except on "Back to Back" and "Charged Up"), Kendrick doesn't hide behind subliminals; the only way he could've been more direct is if he called out Drake by name. My favorite aspect is how he interpolates Drake lines—a common move by the 6 God—into song, like "Tables turned, lesson learned" and "This is in forever." As far as promo for album four, it can't get much better.

The best part is that Drake will be physically unable to sit on his hands. He's probably already preparing something.