However, where “good kid” illustrated an intimate, personal narrative from Lamar’s past, “To Pimp A Butterfly” deals with a more universal musing on the black condition. “To Pimp A Butterfly,” the title an allusion to Harper Lee’s novel “To Kill a Mockingbird,” opens similarly to “good kid, m.A.A.d. It is in this national context then, and not simply in the current state of music, that Kendrick Lamar released his much-anticipated sophomore studio album, “To Pimp A Butterfly.” In the greater context of American news, events such as the shooting of Trayvon Martin in Florida and George Zimmerman’s acquittal, the death of Eric Garner in New York and the adoption of his last words, “I can’t breath,” in protest and awareness movements, the shooting of Michael Brown and the subsequent Ferguson riots, the shooting of Tamir Rice in Cleveland, police brutality and documented racism in Chicago, Missouri and New York and United States’ Justice Departments and the most recent University of Oklahoma chapter of the SAE fraternity’s racist chant videotaping all have illustrated the very real, very harmful racial inequality still present in the country. Thus lies the context for Kendrick Lamar’s new album - or not completely. city”’s more troubled, spiritual younger brother “My Krazy Life.” Meanwhile, Lamar continued to simultaneously conform to and one-up his competition on a string of stellar guest verses and changed the rap world forever with “ Control” … or, maybe, didn’t. city” concept album form, transforming DJ Mustard’s club-friendly “ratchet music” into a platform for conscious storytelling in “good kid, m.A.A.d. On the other end of the spectrum, YG somehow best captured the “good kid, m.A.A.d. city.” In the mainstream, Pharrell continued his brainwashing of the universe by infecting everyone who has ears with “ Happy.” Peer Chance The Rapper went viral covering the “Arthur” theme song and turned it into the uplifting anthem for a generation uninterested and unoptimistic in having one.
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A lot has happened since Kendrick Lamar stole his mom’s van, wove an intricate story around his hometown and eventually took a victory lap for all of Compton’s survivors three years ago on “good kid, m.A.A.d.