Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly Surpasses Radiohead’s OK Computer as Top Rated Album on Rate Your Music The post Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly Surpasses Radiohead’s OK Computer as Top ...

Kendrick Lamar’s third album, To Pimp A Butterfly, was a big change in direction from his 2012 sophomore album, Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City. It found the rapper ditching his previous West Coast influences ...

The release of "i" opened a deep chasm within the hip-hop community last September. Augmenting his voice, Kendrick Lamar preached confidence and self-assurance over a groovy Isley Brothers sample.

On the nearly six-minute track, the rapper (born Bernard Freeman) gets deep. He offers a rare, introspective look at how he ...

Kendrick Lamar’s album To Pimp A Butterfly is returning to vinyl for Interscope Records’ Artists Inspired by Music: Interscope Reimagined project. The limited-edition set comes with packaging designed ...

'To Pimp A Butterfly' is an an extraordinary, and brilliant album from a rapper who wants so bad to be the leader of not only his generation but his race. Kendrick Lamar never goes for the obvious.

As part of our newly updated survey of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, we’re publishing a series of pieces on the making of key albums from the list. Kendrick Lamar‘s To Pimp a Butterfly came in ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Kendrick Lamar does not need an Album of the Year Grammy win — let’s start with that. The Grammys, ...

If there was a Mount Funkmore for the greatest funk bassists, Marcus Miller’s face and trademark porkpie hat would be sculpted into that musical monument. Miller honed his musical chops during funk’s ...

Soul music is proving to be more relevant in the 21st century than ever before. Case in point: the recent funkativities of Stymie and the Pimp Jones Love Orchestra, a Bay Area-bred, eleven-piece tribe ...