Kendrick Lamar’s ‘To Pimp a Butterfly’: A Cinematic Hip-Hop Masterpiece

Kendrick Lamar’s ‘To Pimp a Butterfly’: A Cinematic Hip-Hop Masterpiece

Eleven years after its release on March 15, 2015, Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly remains a landmark achievement in hip-hop, and arguably, modern music. The album, a complex and often challenging perform, is a journey through the history of African-American music, seamlessly blending jazz, funk, soul, and spoken word with live instrumentation, improvisation, and … Read more