Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly [2LP]

Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly [2LP]To Pimp a Butterfly is the third studio album by American rapper Kendrick Lamar. It was released on March 15, 2015, by Top Dawg Entertainment, Aftermath Entertainment and Interscope Records.

Dramatic influences like Isaac Hayes (check out the piano on “Be Your Own Shelter”) and Jerry Ragovoy are chopped and folded into Northern Soul uptempo numbers to create stompers like “Get a Hold of Yourself” or “Chosen Few”

It's proudly emotive

"Everything is way personal

Now and always

rivals The Headhunters at their finest

Recording & Mixing took place at Electrical Audio in Chicago over a bunch of long weekends in November

She calls herself the gangsta Nancy Sinatra and defines her genre as Hollywood pop/ sadcore

you have to meet him and hear his music—he’s great

Cover design by Aubrey Powell/Hipgnosis and Peter Curzon/Storm Studios

but resisting easy categorization

playful lyrical style

this reissue is a must-have for collectors and fans of classic jazz fusion