On “To Pimp A Butterfly” highlight ‘The Blacker The Berry,’ which stitches together the tics of Public Enemy’s Bomb Squad and N.W.A.’s Dr. Dre, Lamar, who calls himself “the biggest ...

Kendrick Lamar’s ‘To Pimp A Butterfly’: What the Critics Are Saying. The followup to 'good kid, m.A.A.d city' was mysteriously released on Sunday night, with the clean and explicit versions ...

Kendrick Lamar to Dissect To Pimp a Butterfly on Podcast The Big Hit Show Abby Jones. Season 2 of Alex Pappademas' podcast will feature K-Dot himself discussing his 2015 magnum opus.

Kendrick Lamar's "To Pimp a Butterfly" may not be as accessible as its predecessor. ... The same goes for "Institutionalized," a laid-back West Coast jam tailor made for its Snoop Dogg's cameo.

Before Kendrick, the highest charting album with “pimp” in the title was Pimp C’s 2006 Pimpalation album, which debuted at no. 3. Too Short also cracked the top 10 back in 1992 with his ...

To Pimp a Butterfly is steeped in a mix of genres that helped defined Black music during the ’70s and ’80s, with many listeners associating the album with jazz and funk, in particular.

Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly (all parts of it) has been think-pieced to death, so that’s not what’s going to happen here. Plus, I probably already did that and am too lazy to look it up.

The message of To Pimp a Butterfly is evident in the opening couplet of the Flying Lotus-produced opener “Wesley’s Theory” that attacks the way black artists are pimped out in the entertainment ...

To Pimp A Butterfly. "Mom, I'm finna use the van real quick. Be back in 15 minutes" Familiar to anyone who had Kendrick Lamar's now seminal 2012 album good kid, m.A.A.d city in heavy rotation ...

Terrace Martin [a writer and producer on To Pimp a Butterfly] and I were friends since high school. So when he was working on this Kendrick album he brought me in for specific songs. It was ...

Kendrick Lamar’s new album, “To Pimp a Butterfly,” arrived Sunday night, a week before its scheduled release date on March 23. Although the release initially appeared to be an accidental ...

Lamar’s new album, To Pimp a Butterfly, doesn’t explicitly bill itself as a movie like Good Kid, M.A.A.D City did, but the network of interlocking dramas explored here feels filmic nonetheless ...