But TO PIMP A BUTTERFLY. Its the American dream ... Though the artwork has the style of one of those rap poster collages of the greats, the men depicted are thought to mostly be Kendrick's friends ...

An omnidirectional protest album and a functionally Christian rumination on responsibility, “To Pimp A Butterfly” takes on institutionalized racism, the terrifying hustle of capitalism and how ...

Kendrick Lamar and Reebok join forces for the release of another collaborative sneaker, but this on Reebok's Classic Leather silhouette. Kendrick Lamar Is Being Sued Over “The Blacker the Berry ...

The Grammys, however, need to give him the award. For Lamar, who has a near record-tying 11 nominations for his earth-shattering To Pimp A Butterfly, this one award means nothing to his legacy as an ...

By Ashley Lee Kendrick Lamar To Pimp A Butterfly Album Cover - S 2015 The follow-up to his major-label debut, 2012’s critically acclaimed good kid, m.A.A.d city, was introduced with its lead ...

When Kendrick Lamar arrives at the Grammy Awards to accept applause for his album of the year-nominated “To Pimp a Butterfly,” the Compton-born rapper, lyricist and producer will be ...

Kyle Anderson: The road to Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly was not as rocky as the one that led us to Madonna’s Rebel Heart, but it was still fraught: After first single “i” arrived ...

By Andrew Flanagan Kendrick Lamar’s surprise release of To Pimp A Butterfly around midnight on Sunday prompted a deluge of commentary and a surfeit of surprise across the Internet through the ...

It’s fascinating because it’s tough to know how many of those 54.4 million people would be interested in To Pimp A Butterfly. I haven’t spent enough time with this album to write a real ...

More importantly, "good kid" was an easy listen. Lamar's follow up, "To Pimp a Butterfly," is anything but. "To Pimp a Butterfly" is a complex body of work that requires repeat listens to fully ...

Kendrick Lamar’s new LP “To Pimp a Butterfly” was an instant conversation-shifter in pop music, and set records for debut-day streaming on Spotify. But the record very nearly had a ...

And yet that’s where I found myself on Sunday night, sitting in a restaurant in Harlem when I got the message that Kendrick Lamar’s sophomore album To Pimp A Butterfly had been released a week ...