“When the shit hits the fan is, will you still be a fan?” That question was Kendrick Lamar its listeners in “Mortal Man”, the last song of his new album “To Pimp A Butterfly”. Lamar is aware of the hype surrounding him ever since his major-label debut “good kid, Maad city” of 2012, only to be aware of. With his new album he seems to want to test its glory.
Rarely a rapper was overwhelmed by his colleagues with such respect. Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre, the undisputed master of Californian hip-hop, voted the native Angeleno as the new king of the West Coast rap. A $ AP Rocky called him our generation Nas (Nas catapulted the New York hip-hop in 1994 with his album “Illmatic” in a completely new lyrical spheres). And Pharrell Williams compared Lamar same with Bob Dylan.
But how long can this go on? What happens when that glory faded? What if he is not just an occasion? Kendrick Lamar required for this pretty safe eventuality a creed of his fans, and not a proverbial: “A prophet is only a prophet when he asked you this question: When the shit hits the fan is, will you still be a fan? ” What respond to that? Kendrick Lamar has not before, it is easy to make his listeners. He wants to be the prophet. And that makes this record so great.
“To Pimp a Butterfly” (presumably a reference to Harper Lee’s novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” [To Kill a Mockingbird], in which the racism of the US Southern states is discussed ) is a masterpiece of complexity, political, musically and conceptually. While the album is explained as a format for several years for dead because playlists and downloading individual songs the one designed by the artist, title sequence have also rendered obsolete, is “To Pimp a Butterfly” as baffling concept album, therefore. It’s almost as if Lamar sure to find out if his fans still hold to him, even if his new album is not a success.
Experimental Beat hobbyists and grandnephew of John Coltrane, Flying Lotus, among others responsible for the sound of the album, which oscillates between free jazz, Miles Davis and 70s funk. But not only the beats flowing into each other, but also Lamar Rap, often reminiscent of the angry citizen’s right lyrics of The Last Poets, is on throughout the album narrative relationships between the individual songs here. This results in a self-contained story.
arises This also explains why the single “i” was indeed won two Grammys, with critics but as politically spongy fell through, and only reached number 39 in the US charts. The full social explosive power of the song was clearly only with the second single “The Blacker the Berry,” a lot more now, however, in the context of the entire album, which was released on Spotify and iTunes already several days before the actual release date, probably in order to forestall a leak.
Political positioned, the rapper from Compton on a fine line between left and conservative explanations for the oppression of black people in America. “The Blacker the Berry” cites a decidedly conservative way of reading, which states that the African American community has to change themselves in order to improve their social status. A position that had already taken Bill Cosby in his infamous Pound Cake Speech in 2004 and had it abundantly take criticism. At the same time criticized Lamar “Hood Politics” and the institutionalized oppression of African Americans by police and state, and thus rather describes a progressive statement.
Kendrick Lamar extends the Hip-Hop but not only differentiated political attitudes, but adds to it a new emotional vulnerability. In “u”, he describes his battle with depression and self-doubt that haunt him since his breakthrough. “Loving you is complicated,” he juxtaposes the omitted cheerful “I love myself” by “i”. In two different voices – Lamar plays on the album with so many vocal characters that collaborations with Snoop Dogg, Rapsody or Bilal seem almost unnecessary – he raps on the edge of suicide
The now 27-year-old hip-hop prodigy has really tried in “To Pimp a Butterfly” everything to avoid a commercial success. This will probably be not granted to him. On Spotify he has already set a new record after only 24 hours, the album was streamed 9.6 million times
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