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To Pimp a Butterfly is the third studio album by American rapper Kendrick Lamar, released on March 15, 2015 by Top Dawg Entertainment (TDE), Aftermath Entertainment and Interscope Records. It was produced by Boi-1da, Flippa, Flying Lotus, Knxwledge, KOZ, LoveDragon, Larrance Dopson, Pharrell Williams, Sounwave, Rahki, Tae Beast, Taz Arnold, Terrace Martin, Thundercat, Tommy Black and Whoarei. Guest appearances include Thundercat, George Clinton, Anna Wise, Bilal, Snoop Dogg, James Fauntleroy, Ronald Isley and Rapsody. To Pimp a Butterfly, a Hip Hop album, incorporates many musical styles spanning the history of African-American music, especially Jazz, Funk and Soul. The album consists of 16 tracks. The lyrics of the songs on the album contain political commentary and personal themes concerning African-American culture, racial inequality, depression, and institutional discrimination.

The album To Pimp a Butterfly was a great success both commercially and critically. It sold 324,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release and peaked at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart and the UK chart. It became Kendrick Lamar's first number-one album in the UK. Additionally, it sold one million copies in the United States by 2017 and was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). To Pimp a Butterfly earned Kendrick Lamar seven nominations at the 2016 Grammy Awards, including a win for Best Rap Album and Album of the Year. Additionally, he received four more nominations for other collaborations, and a total of 11 Grammy nominations, the most nominations for a rapper in a single night. Additionally, many publications named the album one of the best albums of the 2010s. If you want to learn more about the "To Pimp a Butterfly" album, you can check it out here. If you want to know more about Kendrick Lamar, you can check it out here.

Information about The To Pimp a Butterfly Album

• Released : March 15, 2015
• Studio : Chalice (Hollywood) - Downtown (New York) - House (Washington, D.C.) - Notifi (St. Louis) - No Excuses (Santa Monica)
• Genre : Experimental Hip Hop - Progressive Rap - Conscious Hip Hop - Jazz Rap - G-funk - Neo Soul
• Length : 78:51
• Label : Top Dawg Entertainment (TDE), Aftermath Entertainment and Interscope Records
• Producer : Boi-1da, Flippa, Flying Lotus, Knxwledge, KOZ, LoveDragon, Larrance Dopson, Pharrell Williams, Sounwave, Rahki, Tae Beast, Taz Arnold, Terrace Martin, Thundercat, Tommy Black, Whoarei

Track Listing

1. "Wesley's Theory"
2. "For Free? (Interlude)"
3. "King Kunta"
4. "Institutionalized"
5. "These Walls"
6. "U"
7. "Alright"
8. "For Sale? (Interlude)"
9. "Momma"
10. "Hood Politics"
11. "How Much a Dollar Cost"
12. "Complexion (A Zulu Love)"
13. "The Blacker the Berry"
14. "You Ain't Gotta Lie (Momma Said)"
15. "I"
16. "Mortal Man"

If you want to listen to all the songs in the The "To Pimp a Butterfly" Album: Spotify Playlist - Apple Music Playlist - Youtube Playlist

The album To Pimp a Butterfly was a really successful album and there are great songs on the album that I listen to the most, such as "King Kunta", "Alright", "The Blacker the Berry". If I had to choose one of them, it would definitely be "Alright". Kendrick Lamar had already proven himself as hip-hop's boldest visionary, and he took it even further with "To Pimp a Butterfly."

Kendrick Lamar - King Kunta

Kendrick Lamar - The Blacker The Berry

Kendrick Lamar - Alright

I like both the beat and the lyrics of "Alright". It's a really high-quality song, but it's not just a high-quality song, it's also a song that influenced many goups and movements. "Alright" has become the anthem of the Black Lives Matter movement. Kendrick Lamar has a truly unique voice and his performance on this song is truly amazing.

Lyrics

[Produced by Pharrell Williams & Sounwave]
[Directed by Colin Tilley]

[Intro: Kendrick Lamar]
Alls my life, I has to fight, nigga
Alls my life, I—
Hard times like, "Yah!"
Bad trips like, "Yah!"
Nazareth
I'm fucked up, homie, you fucked up
But if God got us, then we gon' be alright

[Chorus: Pharrell Williams]
Nigga, we gon' be alright
Nigga, we gon' be alright
We gon' be alright
Do you hear me, do you feel me? We gon' be alright
Nigga, we gon' be alright
Huh? We gon' be alright
Nigga, we gon' be alright
Do you hear me, do you feel me? We gon' be alright

[Verse 1: Kendrick Lamar]
Uh, and when I wake up
I recognize you're looking at me for the pay cut
But homicide be looking at you from the face down
What MAC-11 even boom with the bass down?
Schemin', and let me tell you 'bout my life
Painkillers only put me in the twilight
Where pretty pussy and Benjamin is the highlight
Now tell my momma I love her, but this what I like, Lord knows
Twenty of 'em in my Chevy, tell 'em all to come and get me
Reaping everything I sow, so my karma coming heavy
No preliminary hearings on my record
I'm a motherfucking gangster in silence for the record, uh
Tell the world I know it's too late
Boys and girls, I think I've gone cray
Drown inside my vices all day
Won't you please believe when I say

[Pre-Chorus: Kendrick Lamar]
Wouldn't you know
We been hurt, been down before
Nigga, when our pride was low
Lookin' at the world like, "Where do we go?"
Nigga, and we hate po-po
Wanna kill us dead in the street fo sho'
Nigga, I'm at the preacher's door
My knees gettin' weak, and my gun might blow
But we gon' be alright

[Chorus: Pharrell Williams]
Nigga, we gon' be alright
Nigga, we gon' be alright
We gon' be alright
Do you hear me, do you feel me? We gon' be alright
Nigga, we gon' be alright
Huh? We gon' be alright
Nigga, we gon' be alright
Do you hear me, do you feel me? We gon' be alright

[Verse 2: Kendrick Lamar]
What you want you, a house⁠? You, a car?
Forty acres and a mule? A piano, a guitar?
Anything, see my name is Lucy, I'm your dog
Motherfucker, you can live at the mall
I can see the evil, I can tell it, I know it's illegal
I don't think about it, I deposit every other zero
Thinking of my partner, put the candy, paint it on the Regal
Digging in my pocket, ain't a profit big enough to feed you
Every day my logic get another dollar just to keep you
In the presence of your chico, ah!
I don't talk about it, be about it, every day I sequel
If I got it then you know you got it, Heaven, I can reach you
Pat Dawg, Pat Dawg, Pat Dawg, my dog, that's all
Bick back and Chad, I trap the bag for y'all
I rap, I black on track so rest assured
My rights, my wrongs; I write 'til I'm right with God

[Pre-Chorus: Kendrick Lamar]
Wouldn't you know
We been hurt, been down before
Nigga, when our pride was low
Lookin' at the world like, "Where do we go?"
Nigga, and we hate po-po
Wanna kill us dead in the street fo sho'
Nigga, I'm at the preacher's door
My knees gettin' weak, and my gun might blow
But we gon' be alright

[Chorus: Pharrell Williams]
Nigga, we gon' be alright
Nigga, we gon' be alright
We gon' be alright
Do you hear me, do you feel me? We gon' be alright
Nigga, we gon' be alright
Huh? We gon' be alright
Nigga, we gon' be alright
Do you hear me, do you feel me? We gon' be alright

[Outro: Kendrick Lamar & Thundercat]
I keep my head up high
I cross my heart and hope to die
Lovin' me is complicated
Too afraid of a lot of changes
I'm alright, and you're a favorite
Dark nights in my prayers

[Poem: Kendrick Lamar]
I remembered you was conflicted
Misusing your influence, sometimes I did the same
Abusing my power, full of resentment
Resentment that turned into a deep depression
Found myself screamin' in the hotel room
I didn't wanna self-destruct
The evils of Lucy was all around me
So I went runnin' for answers

Source
Songwriters: Kawan Prather / Kendrick Lamar Duckworth / Mark Anthony Spears / Pharrell L. Williams

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