Kendrick Lamar is making his rounds doing press for his latest studio effort, To Pimp a Butterfly, and he stopped by Atlanta’s own, Hot 107.9. READ MORE: Too Powerful To Contain: Kendrick Lamar’s ‘To Pimp A Butterfly’ Deserves All Of Your Attention He talked about meaning behind the album name, but also shared insight on the message he […]

Kendrick Lamar‘s latest release, To Pimp a Butterfly, debuted at number one making it the rapper’s first album to claim the top spot selling 324,000 copies in its first week. MUST SEE: Robert Glasper Takes Us Inside Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Mortal Man’ Studio Sessions [EXCLUSIVE]   But if that wasn’t good enough news for the Compton MC, Billboard […]

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    Both Kendrick Lamar and D’Angelo are having a stellar year so far; K. Dot’s latest release, To Pimp a Butterfly, is the album everyone is talking about—from hip-hop aficionados waxing about its lyrical and thematic heft, to cultural critics offering in-depth analysis of everything from the album’s subject matter to its rebellious, revolutionary […]

Last night (March 24), Kendrick Lamar took to his often-inactive Twitter account to announce two cryptic times, both with varying locations attached. 9pm. meet me here. 8950 Sunset Blvd. 930pm. meet me here. 8466 Melrose Ave. — Kendrick Lamar (@kendricklamar) March 25, 2015 At the time, no one really knew what it was about, but, […]

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According to the Recording Industry Association of America, digital music accounted for 64% of overall recorded music revenue in 2014. If those numbers hold up, it’s easy to see how breaking a Spotify streaming record with the release of his sophomore album became very lucrative for Kendrick Lamar. Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly was […]

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  With its position at the center of the pop culture universe firmly established and its global reach and influence the common currency across a multicultural platform, it comes as no surprise that hip-hop has found its way into the classroom. Numerous colleges and universities across the United States alone offer occasional as well as […]

  With J.Cole and Kendrick Lamar each dropping albums that focused more on substance over commercial appeal, it got us thinking about “the good ol days” of hip-hop. You know, the days where artists would have to air out their differences over an instrumental instead of just tweeting one another back and forth. And who […]

There are many things that can be discussed when it comes to Kendrick Lamar‘s To Pimp A Butterfly. How it was released ahead of schedule, the millions of times it has been streamed, even its album cover and photos in the liner notes. But it’s an album filled with music first, and the genre-bending nature of it has been a large […]

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Interscope may have screwed up To Pimp A Butterfly‘s release, according to Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith, but it’s OK. Kendrick Lamar‘s masterwork is doing numbers. To Pimp A Butterfly has broken Spotify’s record for most streams in a day with a crazy 9.6 million. The release was an odd one, dropping a week before its scheduled date and […]

If the first big surprise about Kendrick Lamar’s new album was its early release, the second was surely an unexpected appearance from Tupac at the end of the record. Splicing up a rare old interview the West Coast legend conducted with Swedish radio P3, K. Dot’s To Pimp A Butterfly finds the younger Cali icon carrying out an imagined conversation […]

Kendrick Lamar just released the day’s most-talked about album with To Pimp A Butterfly. And just as the world is consuming his new project’s messages, The New York Times has unleashed an in-depth interview with the Compton emcee. In the piece, written by Joe Coscarelli, Kendrick explains that he was baptized following good kid, m.A.A.d. city, saying he […]

This wasn’t supposed to happen. Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly was supposed to be released March 23. So, when I found out that it was unleashed early, I wondered if it was just a leak. But no, the actual album was unveiled and thus, a week in advance, we all got to hear what K. Dot […]