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Thanks to multiple hit singles—and no shortage of critical acclaim—2012’s good kid, m.A.A.d city propelled Kendrick Lamar into the hip-hop mainstream. His 2015 follow-up, To Pimp a Butterfly, served as a raised-fist rebuke to anyone who thought they had this Compton-born rapper figured out.
Mar 24, 2015 · To Pimp a Butterfly is more. It uses the characters of Lucy, Uncle Sam and Kendrick’s own life to tell the story of a man who became institutionalized by his own environment and country, and ...
Mar 15, 2024 · To Pimp A Butterfly sounded unlike anything Lamar had done before: a genre-busting jubilee in honor of the funkiest, freshest, and most out-there elements of African-American music. He...
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Mar 19, 2015 · To Pimp a Butterfly is a densely packed, dizzying rush of unfiltered rage and unapologetic romanticism, true-crime confessionals, come-to-Jesus sidebars, blunted-swing sophistication,...
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Mar 16, 2015 · Kendrick Lamar’s ‘To Pimp a Butterfly’: A Track-by-Track Guide. Here's more than you need to know about the rapper's "honest, fearful and unapologetic" new album. By Rolling Stone. March...
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Sep 23, 2020 · Kendrick Lamar ‘s To Pimp a Butterfly came in at number 19. The first time the Parliament-Funkadelic legend George Clinton heard the rising Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar, he was underwhelmed....
Mar 19, 2015 · Underneath the tragedy and adversity, To Pimp a Butterfly is a celebration of the audacity to wake up each morning to try to be better, knowing it could all end in a...
