Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly (2015)

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.

the only way he could've been more direct is if he called out Drake by name

Or he could have stopped dissing Big Sean and dissed Drake instead

I'm not expecting an album that soon Buti would love to be wrong

Or he could have stopped dissing Big Sean and dissed Drake instead

The Big Sean disses are just as plentiful, too, I just focused on Drake because there's more history, has a bigger profile, and you know he'll feel the need to respond.

I was trawling through discography info to clarify which releases were considered albums and which were considered mixtapes and stumbled across the factoid that every Kendrick album since Good Kid, m.A.A.d City has appeared on Billboard's year-end album list every year since its release.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvTRZJ-4EyI

banger

maybe we should start a thread for the new record

Definitely.

WE GET TURNT UP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsucJR9pk6A

I'm not goon enough to start a new thread but someone really should

Kendrick Lamar - 2017 Album (Rumored for April 7th)

just wanted to note that the original single version of "i" fucking rules really hard

Still kind of bummed that the live version ended up on the album.

the single version was a little too incongruously sunny for the album but I know what you mean

Yes! So damn good

Man, this album is so fucking good

yeah, it's evergreen

any word on his new album? seemed some talk that it was coming out in 2020 but haven't seen much lately

so fucking great

This went way left

On some Andy kellman core lol

I think I like it but not what I expected

― deej loaf (D-40), Monday, March 16, 2015 4:10 AM (five years ago) bookmarkflaglink

What's that? #latepass

This album is easily top ten of the last decade for me, so stacked with good songs that it's remarkably easy to sleep on some of them. I don't know how many listens it took me to realize that "Complexion" was actually great, even if it's only like the tenth best song on the album

DAMN hasn't held up as well, but I still eagerly await the next album

Jesus christ, what a transcendental work. I casually threw this on for the first time in a while but couldn't stay casual for long.
Hope he'll have something to share with us soon. Every couple months he trends on twitter and I get my hopes up that he dropped something but it's always just people using his name for clout. Curious to hear how fatherhood has influenced him.