KENDRICK LAMAR

TO PIMP A BUTTERFLY

The milk never runs dry.

Even now that USA has a black president who is now on his second term, black
racial issues are still in the forefront of rap music. And rap artists are milking them
for all their worth. Its like you cant be a bona fide black rapper if you dont wax
poetic on discrimination and stuff. Oddly enough, you cant sell a rap album if you
talk about heartbreaks and stuff.
So there lies the irony. Theres nothing cooler than a pimped baller rapper spitting
shits about the pains of a homie. The message is deep but the messenger is
shallow.
And so it is with Kendrick Lamar. The self-declared King of New York is back with To
Pimp a Butterfly, and the critics declared it as the greatest rap album on the planet.
TPAB opens up with Wesleys Theory, a ___ track which references Wesley Snipes
tax evasion case and metaphorically equating Snipes (who was in the slammer for
three years) name to, well, being buggered.
For Free? Interlude is a raucous rant against an imaginary (she could be real) golddigging bitch which in turn could be a metaphor for white America. Lamar fumes
Oh America, you bad bitch/ I the picked cotton that made you rich.
King Kunta is easily my favorite track.