Oct 8, 2016

Tpab really the goat album, Took kendrick 4 years to drop that goat album...can't believe we finally got it

 

Oct 8, 2016

To p---- a Butterfly was certainly on the radar of David Bowie and the jazz musicians with whom he recorded his final album.

“It was an album that David talked about a lot, both with me and with producer Tony Visconti,” says saxophonist Donny McCaslin, the musical director ofBlackstar. “It is a staggering piece of art. And oddly, I found Kendrick’s rapping – his intonation, his rhythms, his syncopation, the spirit of his phrasing – heavily influenced my own saxophone playing, both on Blackstar and on my new album. David was very much intrigued by a musician like Kendrick who was creating a personal vision: something that was a mix of many genres, but not really sounding like any of them. I guess it’s something that he has always done. I mean, what is Blackstar? It’s not a jazz record or a rock record, it was David’s personal vision. And it’s the same with To p---- a Butterfly.”

read full article on https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/oct/06/new-cool-kamasi-kendrick-gave-jazz-new-groove#img-1