10 years ago today: Kendrick Lamar released to Pimp a Butterfly

Originally published in Hot press In March 2015:

Kendrick Lamar's latest album is a beautiful and brilliant attempt to distill and newly contextualize 100 years of African-American music history with references to radio, blues, disco, protest-poetry and, most best to context.

This is also an LP that hops for a fair outrage. The feeling is expressly made by the cover picture of a gang-banger poss, which is designed on the lawn of the White House and literally frightens two fingers in the establishment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRK7PVJFBS8

As with d'Angelos astonishing Black Messiah to pimp a butterfly is busy with the racing debate, with America in February 2012 of the innocent black teenager Trayvon Martin Frisch and at the end of last year it seemed to achieve apotheosis with the Ferguson riots, which was triggered by the brutality of the police against African in the American Missouri.

It's a lot to bite. However, Kendrick Lamar confirms that he has grown to the task. At the beginning, his play on words is violently articulated, as it becomes clear what became clear on the sprouts, frenetically “The Blacker The Berries”.

“The plot is larger than me/ it is generation hatred/ It is peoples/ it is dirty, little justification/ I am African Americans, I am African/ black as the heart of AF ** Kin 'Aryan/ I am black like the name Tyrone and Darius. “”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdptvzdspiy

Together with its thematic weight, the album is musically enormously ambitious. When Hot press I met Lamar for his first Irish interview in 2013 and was impressed by his humility. In the studio, however, his boasting is noticeable and intoxicating. Who else could run a back-from-the-grave team with Tupac And Sufjan Stevens without feeling like a bend to cheap gimmick?

The appreciation in which the native Compton was born in the hip-hop community in Compton, LA is also obvious. Dr. Dre dives to remember a younger lamar drive to be successful. Elsewhere, Pharrell and Flying Lotus Bassist Thundercat contributes to the horns and intestinal Bucket beats, while Snoop Dogg throws a confused rhyme to “institutionalized”.

Obviously you know a genius when you hear one. butterfly is a unique abdominal test, a tour de force that is incredibly specific in your ambition and time and place. Let us hear it for the first really great album from 2015.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-48u_uwmhy

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