Review · 2015 · West Coast Hip Hop

Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp A Butterfly reviewed: a smoothly performed stream of consciousness, bouncing like a pinball from social commentary to love to raw anger.

Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly cover

The verdict

Released 2015
Label Aftermath Entertainment / Interscope Records / Top Dawg Entertainment
Genre West Coast Hip Hop

It’s largely a smoothly performed stream of consciousness. I can see this as a snapshot into the artists brain, complete with almost ambient backing music and scattered topics bouncing from social commentary to the joys of physical love to raw anger to swagger and back again like a pinball. 

Jams:

  • “Alright”

  • “Hood Politics”

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