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  1. Jehovah
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    http://www.rollingstone.com/music/l.../kendrick-lamar-to-p-----a-butterfly-20151130


    Musically, lyrically and emotionally, Kendrick Lamar's third album is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece – a sprawling epic that's both the year's most bumptious party music and its most gripping therapy session. A rap superstar at last, after years on the underground grind, Lamar wrestles with the depression and survivor's guilt that followed his fame and success by turning to heroes from Ralph Ellison and Richard Pryor to Smokey Robinson and Kris Kross to Nelson Mandela and Tupac. He lives large. He contains multitudes.

    The pleasures and rewards of To p---- a Butterfly aren't easy. Leading the charge to bring live instrumentation back to hip-hop, Lamar and producer Sounwave call forth a sound as ambitious, free-associative and challenging as his rhymes: sci-fi funk on "Wesley's Theory," snatches of free jazz on "For Free?," steady-rolling G-funk on "King Kunta." Over all this, Lamar – his voice raw or multitracked into its own chorus – interrogates himself and a country where everything from his ancestors to his art has always been for sale. He repeatedly returns to a moment when he found himself alone in a hotel room, distraught and screaming. "I didn't want to self-destruct," he says. "So I went running for answers." The search is never-ending.

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    tpab too heavy for some noobs
     
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    they are 100% correct
     
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    What about bumpability in the whip?
     
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    "party music" lol
     
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    I can't breathe :laff:
     
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    "I can't enjoy TPAB because other people like it a lot"
     
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    CODEiNE DEMON One foot stuck in the tarpit of my ways

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    YouTube called they want their cancer back
     
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    Where is Compton?:kdotrly:
     
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    Reported tbh
     
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    Still keep forgetting to pick up my copy :snoop:

    obligatory Rodeo in stores now
     
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    I've been saying it for months. TPAB is without a doubt one of the greatest albums across any genre. When speaking about it in terms of rap if you don't like this style of instrumentation which is jazz funk your going to have a hard time listening for enjoyment as the style of the beats just don't meet the "mainstream" or rap listeners overall. If you are like myself and like the jazz funk style of beats this album is without a doubt a top tier album for you. No one can take away the lyrics and the message the album provokes and that alone should make the average rap listener understand the greatness within TPAB. Saying you don't like the album because of the beats is totally understandable it's a very unique sound that isn't for everyone but that's the 2pac and Outkast influence Kendrick has. You must come to terms that though the beats are not what you typically listen to the structure and writing on the album is on a caliber 99% of song writers can never match. Props for Kendrick
     
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    I weigh bumpableness very high in my critic criteria.
     
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    Nah Rodeo is.
     
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    Also that
     
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