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  1. Mar 15, 2015 · To Pimp a Butterfly is Kendrick Lamar’s second major label studio album, and third full-length project. It was released via Top Dawg Entertainment, Aftermath Entertainment, and Interscope ...

  2. To Pimp a Butterfly is the third studio album by American rapper Kendrick Lamar. It was released on March 15, 2015, by Top Dawg Entertainment, Aftermath Entertainment and Interscope Records.

    • “Wesley’s Theory” In his interview with Rolling Stone, Lamar reveals how influential Seventies funk was on To Pimp a Butterfly‘s sound. The album’s first song plays that out, opening with a sample from Boris Gardiner’s cheery manifesto of black pride “Every Nigger Is a Star” off the soundtrack of the 1974 Calvin Lockhart-directed blaxploitation film of the same name.
    • “For Free? (Interlude)” Crossover jazz pianist Robert Glasper — whose Black Radio, an album featuring verses from Yasiin Bey, Erykah Badu and To Pimp a Butterflycollaborator Bilal, earned a 2013 R&B Grammy nomination — lays down hyperactive keys on this “interlude,” while Terrace Martin, himself the son of a jazz drummer, handles production, just as he did for Kurupt’s Streetlights, Kendrick’s “m.A.A.d.
    • “King Kunta” A funky stomper with a Shaft-evoking call-and-response, “King Kunta” takes a darker turn once producer Mark “Sounwave” Spears cues an unsettling sample of “Get Nekkid” by Mausberg, the Compton-bred DJ Quik protege who was fatally shot at age 21.
    • “Institutionalized” Produced by Rahki and Tommy Black, “Institutionalized” tells a thwarted Compton coming-of-age story, switching between characters to depict the struggles of one who’s “dazed and confused/Talented but still under the neighborhood ruse.”
  3. Wesley's Theory - 0:00For Free? - Interlude - 4:47King Kunta - 6:58Institutionalized - 10:53These Walls - 15:25u - 20:26Alright - 24:54For Sale? - Interlude ...

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  4. Dec 11, 2022 · Two unreleased Kendrick Lamar songs from his To Pimp A Butterfly album cycle have leaked online. The first song to hit the internet is reportedly entitled “Falsehood,” a “groovy” cut with...

  5. The Blacker the Berry is the most fiery song on TPAB, with Kdot's anger towards the murder of a friend made clear through his aggressive tone in the verses. So raw in conveying how the color of one's skin puts one in more danger of being shot, and such a real problem with all the police brutality that still happens today.

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  7. Mar 24, 2015 · For now, lets delve into Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly, looking at the ins-and-outs of its narrative structure and how it applies to Kendrick, his position, and how that can be...