http://unsung-podcast.com/2015/03/23/kendrick-lamar-pimp-butterfly/
This is the 3rd LP by Kendrick Lamar, an ambitious effort that combines gangsta-rap, psychedelic soul and prog to achieve an accessible-yet-avant garde height that has never been reached in quite this way via the genre of hip-hop. It might just be one of the more important records of our time.
Agree? Disagree? Somewhere in between? Let me know your thoughts in the comments.
Kendrick Lamar/To Pimp a Butterfly/Top Dawg; Aftermath; Interscope/2015
Choice Cut: “The Blacker the Berry"
Next of Kin: Flying Lotus, Funkadelic, Ab-Soul
Rating: Green Light + GOLD STAR
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