Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly |OT| It's The American Dream

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CountBlackule said:
Nah, I think they're saving all their tracks together for the collab album.


Gonna be a record full of renegades
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I doubt it's ever going to happen. It'll be asked about half heartedly in interviews for the next few years, and eventually everyone will wonder if it was actually at one point a thing or just a symptom of a fever dream.
 
Angelus Errare said:
Drake is dropping his shit too. Gonna be a good year
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shit, forgot canada dry has a non-lazy effort on deck - his LP's have delivered so far, so i can get behind this hype

XBP said:
Nas too.
If anyone cares anymore
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CountBlackule said:
Would care if he announced anything for his new album.
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yeah, but then the snippets we've heard have been fire & Life is Good was a great album, so i'll add the gawd to my list as well

HiiiLife said:
So swept up in this kdot glamour I completely forgot Bronsolini is dropping in like a week 2.

Oooooo yummy yummy #eat.
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seriously, i stopped listening to tracks because the first few ones were so good, really hoping Mr Wonderful ends up on my top 10 this year, and somehow gets a vinyl release
 
Trey said:
I doubt it's ever going to happen. It'll be asked about half heartedly in interviews for the next few years, and eventually everyone will wonder if it was actually at one point a thing or just a symptom of a fever dream.
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Yea, by the time its actually comes out the verses on it are going to be almost 5 years old lol. Either they redo the verses or just leak the tracks separate.
 
Yaphett Kotto said:
That's a judge. The cover is presumably saying "fuck the law."
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you sure? is it an actual judge? I just figured since they're in front of the white house and all..and I'm a sucker for a good pun.

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CountBlackule said:
Yea gonna need Top Dawg to explain dis one.


He has a gavel tho.


Apparently in the background, it's a monkey with a crown on lol
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yeah I just saw the gavel haha. judge it is.

so fucking hyped for this. been banging The Blacker the Berry pretty much every time I get in my car since it dropped.
 
phanphare said:
you sure? is it an actual judge? I just figured since they're in front of the white house and all..and I'm a sucker for a good pun.

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Yea, there's a mallet by his hand, so I would assume its a judge. I believe the judge represents the justice system in America that affect African Americans.
 
Yaphett Kotto said:
Yea, there's a mallet by his hand, so I would assume its a judge. I believe the judge represents the justice system in America that affect African Americans.
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yeah I missed that for some reason haha. still love the cover. I hope the actual cover has the writing on it too though.

We on!!
 
Some track info from the RS article:
"Mortal Man" name checks everyone from Mandela, to MLK, all the way back to Moses"

On "King Kunta", a stomping blast of James Brown funk, he imagines himself as the titular slave from Roots, shouting the punchline "Everybody wanna cut the legs off him!/Black man taking no losses"

lamar also points out that the fans who scratched their heads at "i" had yet to hear "u" - its counterpoint on the album. "i" is the answer to "u" he says.

The latter is four and a half minutes of devastating honesty, with Lamar almost sobbing over a discordant beat, berating himself about his lack of confidence and calling himself "a ****ing failure." It's the sound of a man staring into the mirror and hating what he sees, punctuated by a self-aware hook:"Loving you is complicated"

"That was one of the hardest songs I had to write,"he says. "There's some very dark moments in there. All my insecurities and selfishness and letdowns. That **** is depressing as a mother****er. "But it helps, though," he says."it helps."

hanging over it all, of course, are the tragedies of the past three years: Trayvon martin, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice. Says sounwave, "To me, the album is perfect for right now. If the world was happy, maybe we'd give you a happy album. But right now, we are not happy." Lamar - who calls the album "fearful, honest and unapologetic" - is coy about what the title means. "Just putting the word 'pimp' next to 'butterfly'..." he says, then laughs."It's a trip. That's something that will be a phrase forever. It'll be taught in college courses - I truly believe that." I ask if hes the pimp or the butterfly, and he just smiles. "I could be both," he says.
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Sound info from RS:

Sonically, Lamar’s new album is adventurous, incorporating elements of funk, spoken-word poetry, and free-jazz, augmented by lots of live playing. (Lamar says he was listening to a lot of Miles Davis and Parliament while making it.) “It’s a unique sound,” says Sounwave. “Every producer I’ve ever met was sending me stuff [for the album], but there was a one-in-a-million chance you could send a beat that actually fit what we were doing.” Lamar’s longtime engineer, Derek "MixedByAli" Ali, says the rapper would often talk in moods: “He would say, ‘I want it to sound eerie,’ or ‘I want it to sound like you’re driving past something.’ Or he talks in colors: ‘Make it sound purple. Make it sound light green.’”
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Oh damn. More organic sounds has kind of hype, but that makes me think mainstream isn't going to want this. Also, I wonder how many of FlyLos beats he took. lol

Air said:
I actually really like the name. Album cover is good too.
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Same here. Cool name and cover. Honestly it sounds better than Good Kid, MAAD city. I remember seeing that for the first time (without context) and laughing.
 
People expecting 808s, programmed drums and "turn up" music are going to be disappointed. He's been mainly working with Terrace Martin (instrumentalist responsible for much of Section80 and the live stuff on GKMC) , Robert Glasper (jazz musician), and Sounwave (Bitch Don't Kill My Vibe). By all accounts the drums are live and dirty, and The Blacker The Berry seems to be what to expect. Bombastic drums on the more aggressive tracks, mixed with jazz and funk sounds.

George Clinton is on the album, Prince and/or Stevie Wonder might be on the album, and Pete Rock is on there too.
 
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