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Conscious hip hop, West coast hip hop, Hip hop, Jazz rap 79 min 16 tracks Aftermath Entertainment
To Pimp a Butterfly is the third studio album by the American rapper Kendrick Lamar. It was released on March 15, 2015, by Top Dawg Entertainment, Aftermath Entertainment and Interscope Records.
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Maximal, overwhelming, concept-driven and difficult.
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A jazz record, a funk record, a poem read at a funeral and a party. Nothing since has been this ambitious and landed. Alright is the anthem; u is the reason it needs one.
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Sly and the Family Stone, Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield – the greats of 70s protest soul ghost through Kendrick Lamar’s restless dissection of modern America. But he’s angrier than them all
The festival’s closing marathon set featured Terrace Martin, the Marc Ribot Trio, Lisa Fischer and Liberty Ellman.
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Metacritic 96/100 · AnyDecentMusic? 9.3/10
16 tracks, 79 minutes.
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