To Pimp A Butterfly
Kendrick Lamar’s second major record label album “To Pimp A Butterfly” brings us a much more intellect and well-rounded album giving us a little bit of everything you would expect from Kdot.
Kendrick Lamar touches on matters affecting the black communities and America in general he also speaks on black leaders such as Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther and Malcom X he also payed homage to the late hip-hop icon Tupac and mentions a bit of the experience he had while he was in South Africa in 2014.
Before I say more about the music in the album let me talk about the art cover of the album. The picture was taken in front of the white house by photographer Chris Buck. Apparently the men in the picture are Lamar’s friends from Compton whom he spoke about on his last album “Good Kid MAAD City”. The white on the ground in a judge. Kendrick Lamar explained the concept behind the art cover by saying “Only god can judge these individuals right here” and he also quoted from his first song on To Pimp A Butterfly “every n**ga is a star.”
What amazed me the most about To Pimp A Butterfly is the way Kendrick Lamar managed to portray lyrical content that is in a higher intellectual level than the usual music we get from all the other rappers. The Compton rapper managed to create an artist experience through his music touching on subjects that matter and can positively uplift the society and it is amazing how he can maintain consistency throughout the album without speaking of the usual topics such as “how much money I got” or “how many girls I got”. It is easy to make a hit about how much money you got but to create an artistic album like To Pimp A Butterfly, that’s a difficult task to successfully do and Kendrick Lamar pulled it off with flying colours.