Lucifer - a double entendre Atmosphere’s Slug previously popularized. But, given everything we learn about Lucy in this song, it’s more likely Lucy’s a manifestation of Kendrick’s inner demons, i.e. There are (intentional?) Beatles references sprinkled all over this album, so if the character “Lucy” feels like a “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds” drug reference, that’s as good a guess as ours. How’d he reach his breaking point? “The evils of Lucy was all around me.” (More on her/him in the next song.) We left off, on “u,” with Kendrick screaming in a hotel room as his “suicidal weakness” comes to a head. Kendrick mentioned in his Rolling Stone cover story that there’d be a dark precursor to his self-love anthem “i,” and it takes shape atop what sorta-kinda sounds like a faint Rihanna sample? The album credits suggest that’s actually either SZA or Jessica Vielmas, but can you imagine? (Warning: You might audibly bawl hearing Kendrick in such emotional distress on this one.) Kendrick wants to penetrate all sorts of walls: your little red wagon’s walls, state penitentiary walls, the walls enclosing your mind. Sorry to be a letdown, but this track’s really all about Bilal echoing Kendrick’s grandmother’s unorthodox - though too real - wisdom: “Shit don’t change until you get up and wash your ass, nigga.” Bilal, Anna Wise, and Snoop Doggįinally! The Kendrick Lamar–Snoop Dogg collaboration California’s been waiting for. ![]() And over what could’ve been a DJ Quik and Suga Free collaboration circa 1997, no less. You mention cotton-picking, you automatically get a Kunta Kinte metaphor. “Oh, America, you bad bitch / I picked cotton and made you rich / Now my dick ain’t free.” Burn. It’s also a hell of a way to introduce what we can only assume is Kendrick’s riff on the butterfly effect: “When the four corners of this cocoon collide, you’ll slip through the cracks hoping that you’ll survive / Gather your wind, take a deep look inside, are you really who they idolize? / To pimp a butterfly.” Slip into that Flying Lotus production while you’re at it, while Kendrick bids farewell to Sherane for a taste of that Wesley Snipes tax-free livin’. Is there a better way to begin an album this racially ignited than with a sample of Boris Gardiner’s “ Every Nigger Is a Star“? Probably not. (The legendary rapper even makes an eerie cameo at the album’s end.) Either way, there’s finally a new Kendrick album out in the world - so we stayed up all night to present our bleary first impressions, obviously. ![]() Then again, according to Kendrick’s tweets, it may have all been part of a plan to commemorate the 20th anniversary of 2Pac’s Me Against the World. Though if you ask some within his label, its release to iTunes - which strangely made the censored version available first - maybe wasn’t as intentional as it looked. Have a good night.Surprise! Kendrick Lamar’s new album, To Pimp a Butterfly, is here a week ahead of schedule. And if you’re up for a discussion about the cultural bias and general nerve damage the show you produce suffers from then I’m all for it. Use the old gramophone to actually listen bro, I’m one of the best alive. Believe the ones who’d rather watch select performances from your program on YouTube the day after because your show puts them to sleep. Hands down one of the most 'faulty’ TV moments I’ve seen. I’ve actually been tuning into CBS around this time of year for a while to see who gets the top honor and you know what’s really not 'great TV’ guys? 1989 getting album of the year over To Pimp A Butterfly. I am young, black, gifted and independent. Blonde sold a million plus without a label, that’s successful. I bought all my masters back last year in the prime of my career, that’s successful. Winning a TV award doesn’t christen me successful. You think that’s why I kept my work out of the Grammy process this year? Don’t you think I would’ve wanted to play the show to ‘redeem’ myself if I felt that way? In reality, I actually wanted to participate in honoring Prince on the show but then I figured my best tribute to that man’s legacy would be to continue to be myself out here and to be successful. Yea yea my 2013 performance at the Grammys was absolute shit. ![]() We all die one day and you’re old so fuck it. As much as I hate to make you guys famous or even respond to you directly.
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