Billboard’s Kris Ex gives it four-and-a-half stars out of five.“To Pimp a Butterfly is every bit as forward-thinking, perhaps more so, than its predecessor. It’s definitely more timely ...

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 ...

Lamar’s 2012 growing-up-in-Compton coming-of-age concept album, “good kid, m.A.A.d. city,” set a new standard for contemporary hip-hop, and “To Pimp a Butterfly” does not shy from those ...

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 ...

Kendrick Lamar does not need an Album of the Year Grammy win — let’s start with that. The Grammys, however, need to give him the award. For Lamar, who has a near record-tying 11 nominations for his ...

So soon after it was unexpectedly issued late Sunday, "To Pimp a Butterfly," the new record by Compton-raised rapper and lyricist Kendrick Lamar, is still settling in, less a voluminous whole than ...

"To Pimp a Butterfly" is the most ambitious album since West's "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy," a record I feel is neck-and-neck with Radiohead's "Kid A" as the best album of the last 15 years.

“To Pimp a Butterfly” is not only an album comprised of 16 impressive tracks: It is a cohesive work, united not only by musical style and poetic lyrics but also by the smooth, ...

To Pimp a Butterfly has aggressively revived the juxtaposition of Kendrick Lamar and Andre 3000 as kindred radicals. Both are Geminis, a zodiac sign characterized by restlessness.

Kendrick Lamar created a masterpiece with To Pimp a Butterfly, now Gucci has helped turn it into a luxury item. The Grammy Award-winning album is being given a second life in Interscope Records ...

Kendrick Lamar’s third album, To Pimp A Butterfly, was a big change in direction from his 2012 sophomore album, Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City. ... Kendrick dove into how he made it work.

TDE President Punch Jumped Headfirst Into The Debate Over Kendrick Lamar’s ‘To Pimp A Butterfly’ After J. Cole Dissed It Aaron Williams Hip-Hop Editor Twitter April 5, 2024 ...