Lamar has offered explanations of the meanings behind songs such as "Wesley's Theory" and " King Kunta".

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To Pimp a Butterfly was recorded at a variety of studios; including Chalice Recording Studios, Downtown Studios, House Studios, Notifi Studios and No Excuses Studios.Steve Mallon of The Quietus noted an "eerily warped psychedelia bursting out of its idiosyncratic arrangements. As Bilal quips on the chorus to "Institutionalized": "Shit don’t change until you get up and wash your ass, nigga.

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as well as Sly Stone's There's a Riot Goin' On and Funkadelic and Erykah Badu's similarly wah-crazy but comparatively lo-fi New Amerykah (4th World War)," but stated nonetheless that "the sense of this album is vividly contemporary. Speaking on the album's styles, co-producer Terrace Martin said, "If you dig deeper you hear the lineage of James Brown, Jackie Wilson, Mahalia Jackson, the sounds of Africa, and our people when they started over here. Speaking about the song, she stated that Lamar had already decided on the concept of the song and stated that the only instructions he gave were the song's title and the idea that ".Stereo Williams of The Daily Beast wrote in response to his lyrics that "it's dangerous to use that violence as a silencing tactic when the public is angry about the systematic subjugation of black people. Lamar’s records, while crowded with conflicting ideas and arguing voices, have a similar sense of a guiding hand at work. not because its bad, but because it was overrated and i didnt understand what people saw in this thing and therefore ive been hating on this album for like a year. Uproxx journalist Aaron Williams said the album "proved that left-field, experimental rap can function in both the critical and commercial realms". Primarily a hip hop album, To Pimp a Butterfly incorporates numerous other musical styles spanning the history of African-American music, most prominently jazz, funk, and soul.

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Even me talking about it here in a review, I feel, does an injustice to how spectacular this album is, and I hope that if you hadn’t heard this album before and you’re reading this review, you will give this album a chance. Guest appearances include Thundercat, George Clinton, Bilal, Anna Wise, Snoop Dogg, James Fauntleroy, Ronald Isley, and Rapsody. One of my new favorite hiphop albums So recently, I've been getting more into hiphop music, and Kendrick Lamar being one of those rappers I really like. The album's CD release included a booklet produced with braille letterings; according to Lamar, these characters, when translated, reveal the "actual full title of the album. It was compared by California State University, Fullerton professor Natalie Graham to the 1977 television miniseries Roots.It was eventually certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and sold one million copies in the United States by 2017. The album continues a nuanced dialogue about weighty topics that affect the African-American community.