Kendrick Lamar - "To Pimp a Butterfly"

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After first listen, yeah this an dope album. Kdot really speaking on real shit here. I haven't really listen to the lyrics closely on first listen, but definitely very detailed shit being said. Jazzy/soul feel, Zulu/ flying lotus and Terrance Martin influenced sounds all though this album.

Mortal man might be my favorite track.
 
If your walls could talk they’d tell you it’s too late

Your destiny accepted your fate

Burn accessories and stash them where they are

Take the recipe, the bible and god

Wall telling you that commissary is low

Race wars happening no calling CO

No calling your mother to save you

Homies say to you, you're reputable, not acceptable

Your behavior is Sammy Da Bull like a killer that turned snitch

Walls is telling me you a bitch

You pray for appeals hoping the warden could afford them

That sentence so important


Walls telling you to listen to "Sing About Me"

Retaliation is strong you even dream about me

Killed my homeboy and God spared your life

Dumb criminal got indicted the same night

So when you play this song rewind the first verse

About me abusing my power so you can hurt

About me and her in the shower whenever she horny

About me and her in the after hours of the morning

About her baby daddy currently to serving life

And how she think about you until we meet up at night

About the only girl that cared about you when you asked her

And how she fucking on a famous rapper

Walls could talk

Cold Ass Entendre
 
StoneColdMikey;7873898 said:
Aye so Lucy is fame and money??

Supposedly ... Lucy = Lucifer

Lucy work harder

Lucy gone call you even when Lucy know you love your "father"

I'm Lucy

I loosely heard prayers on your first album truly

Lucy don't mind cause at the end of the day you'll pursue me
 
TheBossman;7873929 said:
Peezy_Jenkins;7873899 said:
TheBossman;7873867 said:
I'm getting a neo soul feel from this shit.

J. Cole

Lupe

Joey BA

REAL Hip hop is back.

wats fake hip hop?

Migos, future, shmurda, waka flocka,og maco, Kevin gates, Young thug, need I continue? or is that wack too?

foh. its all hip hop whether u like it or not, hip hop started with simplistic ass party songs

and gates weird as fuck but can really spit, u on some elitist bullshit, but i aint gon derail the thread
 
clippyclipp n*gga;7873941 said:
This shit is better than that bum ass drake mixtape

whats the purpose of this? y is u even comparing. ol ion like him but im thinkin about him ass niggas, ol i cant like more than one artist ass niggas. u niggas are the problem
 
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unlike many before him, it's great to hear an artist not wallowing in paranoia but instead projecting it outwards like he has done on this album.

reminds me of Public Enemy during that 'ITANOM' era.
 
yo theres a lot of metaphors on this shit .... ALOT .... you gotta let this shit play about 2-3 times to wash away whatever your expectations of the album would be and come at it from a clear perspective dont let the shift in the soundscape scare you off cos it is different than what he has done in the past ... im liking it more and more as i play it .. there's really no weak sounding tracks ... and the depth of the lyricism is masterful the metaphors are in abundance ...this is to me sounding like his most "personal" work .. and thats saying alot considering his content is typical introspective as is.. this record turns it up a notch with that tho

this is reminding me of how Nas decided to go left when he made It Was Written... after Illmatic .. in the sense that he didn't give a fuck about what people "expected" him to do .. he just went in and made shit that was creative .. that album took some hits when it first came out .. i see the same for this one
 
For one i'm not a geek by any means lol, but i compare hiphop albums because thats always been done since hiphop has started i never said no one couldnt like drake i said drake mixtape was trash and kendrick project is a actually better than all of drake projects honestly just based of lyrical content and substance.
 
JDSTAYWITIT.;7873965 said:
yo theres a lot of metaphors on this shit .... ALOT .... you gotta let this shit play about 2-3 times to wash away whatever your expectations of the album would be and come at it from a clear perspective dont let the shift in the soundscape scare you off cos it is different than what he has done in the past ... im liking it more and more as i play it .. there's really no weak sounding tracks ... and the depth of the lyricism is masterful the metaphors are in abundance ...this is to me sounding like his most "personal" work .. and thats saying alot considering his content is typical introspective as is.. this record turns it up a notch with that tho

this is reminding me of how Nas decided to go left when he made It Was Written... after Illmatic .. in the sense that he didn't give a fuck about what people "expected" him to do .. he just went in and made shit that was creative .. that album took some hits when it first came out .. i see the same for this one

I agree and it was written became my favorite album from him it showed growth

 
Got up to track 11. I need to take my ass to sleep though, I work the night shift lol but so far so good. Shit is so introspective. It kinda makes you reevaluate life in a way.
 

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