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Mar 15, 2015 · Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly Lyrics and Tracklist | Genius. To Pimp a Butterfly. Kendrick Lamar. Released March 15, 2015. To Pimp a Butterfly Tracklist. 1. Wesley's...
- King Kunta Lyrics
[Outro: Kendrick Lamar & Whitney Alford] Funk, funk, funk,...
- For Free? (Interlude) Lyrics
For Free? (Interlude) Lyrics: Fuck you, motherfucker, you a...
- Institutionalized Lyrics
[Part I] [Intro: Kendrick Lamar] What money got to do with...
- Alright Lyrics
Alright Lyrics: Alls my life, I has to fight, nigga / Alls...
- Mortal Man Lyrics
Mortal Man Lyrics: Oh, oh (Ooh) / Whoa, oh / Yeah, yeah /...
- For Sale? (Interlude) Lyrics
[Chorus: Kendrick Lamar] Get you, get you, get you, get you...
- King Kunta Lyrics
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 .
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- “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.”
To Pimp a Butterfly is a critically acclaimed and ambitious album by Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar, featuring Afrocentric and Afrofuturist themes, jazz-funk sounds, and guest appearances from George Clinton, Snoop Dogg, and more. The album explores identity, racial dynamics, and social issues with poetic and personal lyrics, and includes hit singles like \"Alright\" and \"King Kunta\".
Listen to To Pimp A Butterfly on Spotify. Kendrick Lamar · Album · 2015 · 16 songs.
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