To Pimp a Butterfly
Kendrick Lamar
Music
★★★★½4.8
3 added as a keeper · 3 ratings · 3 liner notes
OriginUnited States
Traditionjazz rap
Release date2015-09-25
LabelAftermath/Interscope (Top Dawg Entertainment)
1 Wesley’s Theory 4:47
2 For Free? (interlude) 2:11
3 King Kunta 3:55
4 Institutionalized 4:32
5 These Walls 5:01
6 u 4:28
7 Alright 3:39
8 For Sale? (interlude) 4:52
9 Momma 4:43
1 Hood Politics 4:53
2 How Much a Dollar Cost 4:22
3 Complexion (A Zulu Love) 4:23
4 The Blacker the Berry 5:29
5 You Ain’t Gotta Lie (Momma Said) 4:02
6 i 5:36
7 Mortal Man 12:07
Popular liner notes
"This is what Nicholas Payton meant when he coined the term "BAM" (Black American Music). Absolute melange of jazz, West Coast hip-hop, soul, funk, and every other style into the pinnacle of the Black experience in America"
★★★★★
— duncanpholzhall
"The most complete argument hip hop has made in the last twenty years. I teach this. Every class, something different happens in the room when Alright comes on."
★★★★★
— wallsvibrating
"I listened to this the week I started taking prayer seriously again. I'm just leaving that here."
★★★★½
— halal.adjacent
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