To Pimp a Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar and Reebok join forces for the release of another collaborative sneaker, but this on Reebok's Classic Leather silhouette.

Kendrick Lamar is currently being sued over the artwork used for his single, "The Blacker the Berry." The song's artwork features a mother breastfeeding two children. According to photographer Giordano Cipriani, who shot the artwork on a 2011 trip to Africa, K-Dot used the image without his permission. The...

Kendrick Lamar's dense, ambitious sophomore album, To Pimp a Butterfly, can be difficult to digest. Influences--G-funk, P-funk, jazz, soul--swirl, political diatribes intersect with one another, poems and interviews with dead rappers cloud your field of vision. But...

Kendrick Lamar's 2012 studio debut, good kid, m.A.A.d. city, was hailed as an instant classic by critics and fans. Its power was in its specificity, in the narrowness of its scope--not only was Kendrick's Compton unlike the rest of America, it was unlike N.W.A....

Kendrick Lamar lands his first No. 1 record on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The To Pimp a Butterfly rapper worked with pop sensation Taylor Swift on a new cut of "Bad Bloods," the fourth single off her sophomore LP, 1989. Thanks to the...

To Pimp a Butterfly isn't the full name of Kendrick Lamar's second studio album. While speaking with Mass Appeal for his cover story, the Compton native shared that there is hidden Braille within the album pamphlet. This hidden message is suppo...

Kendrick Lamar sat down to chat with Flying Lotus last night (Apr. 9) on BBC's Radio 1 show. The interview was structured in the same format as Lamar and Tupac's conversation at the end of "Mortal Men" on To Pimp a Butterfly. K. Dot talk...

Kendrick Lamar is engaged to his longtime girlfriend, Whitney Alford. The two have kept their relationship pretty hush ever since K-Dot blew up a few years ago. However, while speaking with Power 105.1's The Breakfast Club, Kendrick opened up about the recent engagement and what it means to stick by his girl's side. "I’m ...

Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly dropped two weeks ago and has the most talked about LP since. Sounwave—who produced for the album—spoke with P&P and revealed that at least 80 songs were recorded for the LP, many of which he was sad to see miss the final cut, like the verse K.Dot unleashed earlier this week. "We went throu...

In an interview with Hot 97, Kendrick Lamar had a simple message regarding the premature bronzing of his second studio album, To Pimp a Butterfly. He believes the record needs time before people hail it as a classic; despite holding the highest Metacritic aggregated review score in the history of the genre, it has been out for less than two weeks. In ...

Kendrick Lamar's sophomore LP To Pimp A Butterfly has made hip-hop as a whole stop and take notice, with many—us included—dissecting the album track by track in order to try and uncover the magic that makes the album work so well. But one questio...

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