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 ...

To Pimp a Butterfly, an immediate contender for best ... establishing a place in this tapestry for old masters and their heirs—whether that’s Ron Isley on “How Much a Dollar Cost” (adding ...

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 ...

The first week numbers have been released for Kendrick Lamar’s sophomore album, To Pimp A Butterfly, earning the prolific artist his first No. 1 album atop the Billboard 200 chart. The album ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The post Kendrick Lamar to Dissect To Pimp a Butterfly on Podcast The Big Hit Show appeared first on Consequence. You don’t need to be a music expert to know that To Pimp a Butterfly is one of ...

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 ...

But once To Pimp a Butterfly arrived on Sunday night — nine days ahead of the announced release date — it's easy to see where he put all that time. He doesn't just live up to outsized ...

Thanks to D’Angelo’s Black Messiah and Kendrick Lamar‘s To Pimp a Butterfly, 2015 will be remembered as the year radical Black politics and for-real Black music resurged in tandem to ...