In fact, by the time his verse starts in the next track, we haven’t heard Kendrick rap for four minutes and forty seconds, spanning over three songs.
However, Kendrick doesn’t rap one vocal on this song, he lets the production carry it. The song “untitled 04” is arguably one of the greatest production moments in Kendrick’s career, sounding like a spooky ASMR brain massage. If you couldn’t understand a lick of English, I doubt your opinion on the project would be much different. Lyrics are like sprinkles on this album, and I can confidently say that this is the only moment in Kendrick’s career where the sound of a project is more important than the lyrics on it.
Why? Simply because the sound of this album is its best aspect, and although the lyrics are amazingly written and extremely powerful, it is the production that makes this album the classic it is.
This album shows that Kendrick has perfected the art of minimalism stunning the music world with only the bare essentials.īefore getting into the lyrics and the context of this album, I feel like it is important to address the production and sound of it first. Kendrick is more abstract than he’s ever been, and not one of these songs sound traditional. If To Pimp a Butterfly lacked commercial appeal, this album had absolutely none of it. This album is a modern classic, perfectly embodying what Kendrick is about while also showcasing some of the best production and vocal work of his career. They range from 2013-2016, from when Kendrick first started working on To Pimp a Butterfly to the final weeks leading up to untitled unmastered. The album consists of 8 tracks, all listed as untitled with the date of the initial recording next to them. Less than a month later, on March 4, 2016, Kendrick silently dropped untitled unmastered, a compilation album of B-sides that did not make it onto To Pimp a Butterfly for whatever reason. The excellence of To Pimp a Butterfly didn’t stop at the Grammys. To Pimp a Butterfly wowed audiences and critics and ended up being nominated for 11 Grammys (one shy of Michael Jackson’s record of 12), taking home 5, including the elusive Best Rap Album award that somehow escaped him two years prior. Kendrick changed his whole sound for this album, incorporating jazz and funk more than ever before, almost completely abandoning the commercial aspects of Good Kid, M.A.A.D. However, nobody expected the hour-long manifestation of genius that is To Pimp a Butterfly.
City, everyone was waiting for Kendrick’s next album. After his first major-label album, Good Kid, M.A.A.D. In 2015, the world of music was Kendrick Lamar’s.
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