![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The dude is so confident that he is the greatest rapper alive, he includes a “conversation” with fucking Tupac Shakur. The jazz beats are fantastic and feature such a fucking all star cast of producers, session musicians, and features that I actually straight up can’t list them all, we’d be here all night, and it’s close to New Years.Įvery track flows into the next, with the ever-evolving poem adding a new line or two after a track that creates the album’s frame narrative as Kendrick reading the poem to *SPOILER IF YOU’VE NEVER LISTENED AND STILL WANT THE SURPRISE* fucking Tupac. It’s such a clear artistic leap-forward from gkmc, it’s better in every way. So why am I talking about good kid m.A.A.d city and not To Pimp A Butterfly? Because To Pimp A Butterfly is all that and more. I shed my rockist elitism and, as you can probably tell with all of my lists predominantly containing hip-hop, really fucking love this genre now. It was like a revelation from God, from there on my musical appetite knew no limit and I did all I could to find more rap coming out at the present and deep dive into past classics. The layers to it all, the beats, the moods, the voicemail interludes, “Sing about me (Dying of Thirst)”, fucking all of it. This shit knocked me so hard off my high horse my head is still spinning years later. A concept album that’s loosely auto-biographical about Kendrick growing up in Compton and I decided I’d give it a listen, just to hear what it was like. I mentioned in the write-up for Janelle Monae’s The ArchAndroid that I grew infatuated with concept albums and in my never-ending search for more, I stumbled across Kendrick’s good kid m.A.A.d. Since I’m white and grew up upper-middle class, rap wasn’t exactly something I was exposed to as a kid, so once I started developing my own music tastes, I quickly became one of those pretentious wankers who think hip-hop isn’t music, all that shit. You don’t need me to tell you this album is good and you especially don’t need a white guy talking about the social-artistic importance of this album. Oh wow look, it’s every other person’s album of the decade, how surprising and what a unique opinion. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly (West Coast Hip-Hop, Jazz Rap) ![]()
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