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Jan 25, 2017 · The album cover shows a group of black men and children celebrating in front of the White House, symbolizing the rapper's vision of hip-hop and blackness in America. The article explores the history, meaning, and impact of the image, as well as Lamar's relationship with the former president.
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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- March 15, 2015
- We Insist! – Max Roach’s Freedom Suite
- Marvin Gaye – What’s Going on
- The Last Poets – This Is Madness
- Billie Holiday – The Original Recordings
- Sun Ra – Space Is The Place
- Bad Brains – Bad Brains
- Public Enemy – It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
- NWA – Straight Outta Compton
- Lauryn Hill – The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
- The Roots – Things Fall Apart
The cover of this impatiently-titled, classic jazz record references the sit-in movements of the civil rights movement which started in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1960. As with To Pimp a Butterfly, the confrontational nature of the image is accentuated by the fact that everyone in the frame is staring straight down the camera.
“Brother, brother, There’s far too many of you dying”, sang Gaye on the title track of his classic protest album, fuelled by anger and sorrow at the escalation of the war in Vietnam, increased urban poverty and ongoing police brutality. The cover art – a muted image of a grimacing, raincoat-clad Gaye being soaked by a downpour – matched the bleak t...
The Last Poets was an amorphous, ever-shifting collective of poets and musicians who arose from the late 1960s black nationalist movement. The staunchly Africanist imagery, flame-coated backdrop and Black Power salutes tell the whole revolutionary story on the cover of their album This is Madness.
Billie Holiday recorded and popularised Strange Fruit, the haunting ballad about lynching, in 1939. It has been covered countless times, and provided the basis sample for Kanye West’s Blood on the Leaves. Yet this colourful artwork, designed by the great African American collagist Romare Bearden, is radical in a different way, celebrating Holiday’s...
Born Herman Poole Blount in the Jim Crow hotspot Birmingham, Alabama in 1914, Ra maintained he was not of this planet and painstakingly crafted a mythical persona that fused sci-fi ideas and aesthetics with Egyptian mysticism. In his sole fictional film appearance – an adaptation of the album of the same name – Ra plays a seer whose mission is to g...
The self-titled debut by DC Rasta-punks Bad Brains – once regarded as one of the fastest albums of all time – flies by in a flurry of aggravation and spittle-flecked spirit. Its cover courted controversy by depicting the chrome dome of the Washington Capitol building being struck by lightning and cracking apart. Perhaps the electricity was conducte...
The east coast rappers’ second album was the hip-hop answer to What’s Going On – a kaleidoscopic, doomy slab of politically-engaged social commentary. The ominous LP art finds leader Chuck D and clock-toting jester Flava Flav incarcerated but defiant – as the title suggests, it’ll take much more than jailing a couple of African Americans to stem th...
The forthcoming biopic of LA gangsta rappers NWA, named after their debut LP, illustrates that their influence is far from waning. Straight Outta Compton has one of the all-time great covers – a shot taken from the point of view of a man (very possibly a cop, if the song Fuck Tha Police is anything to go by) about to be dispatched by a gun-toting E...
The striking cover art of the debut LP by the former Fugees vocalist is a model of economic simplicity which also communicates stark truths. The title (a reference to Carter G Woodson’s The Mis-Education of the Negro) sits above an etching of her face on school desk: it’s both a lament for, and an indictment of, an American school system which has ...
Taking its title from the classic 1958 novel by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, the artwork for Things Fall Apart draws a terrifying line between the past and the present in its use of a stark, monochrome photograph from the civil rights movement era. It depicts the terrifying sight of riot police chasing two black teenagers – one boy, one girl – do...
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Mar 15, 2015 · Released March 15, 2015. To Pimp a Butterfly Tracklist. 1. Wesley's Theory (Ft. George Clinton & Thundercat) Lyrics. 2.3M. For Free? (Interlude) Lyrics. 1.4M. 3. King Kunta Lyrics. 4.9M....
Apr 28, 2015 · Watch Kendrick Lamar explain the meaning behind the album cover of his 2015 release To Pimp A Butterfly. He reveals the people on the cover are his friends and family from Compton, and the judge represents the negative perception of them.
Mar 24, 2015 · A detailed analysis of the album's storyline and themes, from the caterpillar to the butterfly, and how it relates to Kendrick's influence, depression and transformation. The web page does not explain the album cover, which features a black woman with a butterfly on her head.
Mar 12, 2015 · Learn how the French photographer Denis Rouvre captured the powerful image of a dozen kids from Compton in front of the White House for Kendrick Lamar's album To Pimp A Butterfly. Rouvre is known for his portraits of celebrities, tsunami survivors and Senegalese wrestlers.
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