![]() ![]() But this is a small price to pay for the heights To Pimp a Butterfly hits. Plus the Pharrell Williams produced track ‘Alright’ never really breaks out of its stuttering rut. ![]() Then there’s the stanza of a spoken word poem which Lamar repeats with slight alteration on almost half the tracks here, which quickly becomes tiresome. Part of Lamar’s poetic repertoire involves a lot of repetition, and this becomes particularly grating in tracks like ‘For Sale?’ with the name Lucy repeated ad nauseam. This is followed by the extraordinary free-form jazz of ‘For Free’ and the thunderous standout track ‘King Kunta’, an ever-building stomp featuring a tightly controlled funk rhythm that makes for the most danceable track here.Īs with any experimental or challenging album there are occasional misfires. ‘Wesley’s Theory’ is funky as fuck, with fitting appearances from P-Funk legend George Clinton and the squelchy bass of Thundercat. That’s not to say it isn’t immediately accessible though. To Pimp a Butterfly, Lamar’s third full-length album, is a wild, challenging, complex work that can barely contain the man at the centre of it.īeginning with a triple-hit of invention, it’s clear this will be an intricate 79 minute-long journey. And despite having the gruff delivery of a middle-aged chain smoker, he is only 27. He’s a Grammy nominated, platinum-selling artist, whose last album good kid, m.A.A.d city managed both commercial and critical success by dismantling the gangsta rap genre and in doing so made the best gangsta rap album of this or any other generation. He balances an incredibly dextrous lyrical flow with a deconstructivist take on hip-hop. An untouchable creative talent who writes lyrics that place current socio-political themes within a historical context. ![]()
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