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To Pimp a Butterfly's proper and oft-biblical follow-up arrived on Good Friday, 13 months after untitled unmastered., an intermediary release that eclipsed the best work of most contemporary artists. If Kendrick Lamar felt pressure to continue living up to his previous output, there's no evidence on DAMN. He's too occupied tracing the spectrum of his mental states, from "boxin' demons" to "flex on swole," questioning and reveling in his affluence, castigating and celebrating his bloodline, humble enough to relate his vulnerabilities, assured enough to proclaim "Ain't none of y'all fuckin' with the flow." Throughout, he intensely examines most of the seven deadly sins, aware all along that his existence is threatened by anyone who objects to the color of his skin or clothes -- or, in the case of the blind stranger who shoots him during the album's opener, nothing that is apparent. Compared to the maximum-capacity, genre-twisting vastness and winding narratives of Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City and To Pimp a Butterfly, DAMN. on the surface seems like a comparatively simple rap album that demands less from the listener. There's relative concision in the track titles and material, and a greater emphasis on commercial sounds -- such as Mike WiLL's lean and piano-laced trap beat for the strong-arming "HUMBLE.," Lamar's first Top Ten pop hit, and a couple productions that are merely functional backdrops lacking distinction. In a way, however, DAMN. is just as lavish and singular as the preceding albums, its quantity and weight of thoughts and connected concepts condensed into a considerably tighter space. It contains some of Lamar's best writing and performances, revealing his evolving complexity and versatility as a soul-baring lyricist and dynamic rapper. Although it's occasionally distorted, stretched, smeared, and reversed to compelling and imagination-fueling effect, his voice is at its most affecting in its many untreated forms. Take "FEAR.," in which he switches between echoing hot-blooded parental threats to enumerating, with a 40-acre stare, various death scenarios. His storytelling hits an astonishing new high on "Duckworth," the album's finale. Over ethereal funk sewn by 9th Wonder, Lamar details a potentially tragic encounter between his father and future Top Dawg CEO Anthony Tiffith -- and the conditions leading to it -- that occurred long before Kung Fu Kenny was known as K. Dot.
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Kendrick Lamar, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - D. Tanenbaum, ComposerLyricist - Bekon, Producer - Anthony 'Top Dawg' Tiffith, Producer
℗ 2017 Aftermath/Interscope (Top Dawg Entertainment)
Michael L. Williams II, ComposerLyricist - Kendrick Lamar, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Mike Will Made-It, Producer
℗ 2017 Aftermath/Interscope (Top Dawg Entertainment)
Michael Burton, ComposerLyricist - Phillip Terry, ComposerLyricist - Kendrick Lamar, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - M. Spears, ComposerLyricist - D. Natche, ComposerLyricist - Sounwave, Producer - Bekon, Producer, Additional Producer - Anthony 'Top Dawg' Tiffith, Producer - Anthony Tiffith, ComposerLyricist - Dahi, Producer
℗ 2017 Aftermath/Interscope (Top Dawg Entertainment)
Juvenile, ComposerLyricist - Mannie Fresh, ComposerLyricist - Kendrick Lamar, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - James Blake, Producer, ComposerLyricist - M. Spears, ComposerLyricist - Ricci Riera, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Sounwave, Producer - Tae Beast, Producer, Additional Producer - Bekon, Producer, Additional Producer
℗ 2017 Aftermath/Interscope (Top Dawg Entertainment)
Kendrick Lamar, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - M. Spears, ComposerLyricist - Sounwave, Producer
℗ 2017 Aftermath/Interscope (Top Dawg Entertainment)
Philip Lawrence, ComposerLyricist - Bruno Mars, ComposerLyricist - Rihanna, FeaturedArtist - Robyn Rihanna Fenty, ComposerLyricist - Christopher Brown, ComposerLyricist - Terrace Martin, Producer, Additional Producer, ComposerLyricist - Kendrick Lamar, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - M. Spears, ComposerLyricist - D. Natche, ComposerLyricist - Sounwave, Producer - Anthony Tiffith, Producer, Additional Producer, ComposerLyricist - Dahi, Producer
℗ 2017 Aftermath/Interscope (Top Dawg Entertainment)
Kendrick Lamar, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Steve Lacy, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Anna Wise, ComposerLyricist - Bekon, Producer, Additional Producer - Anthony 'Top Dawg' Tiffith, Producer
℗ 2017 Aftermath/Interscope (Top Dawg Entertainment)
Michael L. Williams II, ComposerLyricist - Kendrick Lamar, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - A. Hogan, ComposerLyricist - Mike Will Made-It, Producer - Anthony Tiffith, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2017 Aftermath/Interscope (Top Dawg Entertainment)
Darryl McDaniels, ComposerLyricist - Rick Rubin, ComposerLyricist - Joseph Simmons, ComposerLyricist - Adam Keefe Horovitz, ComposerLyricist - Kendrick Lamar, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Badbadnotgood, Producer - M. Spears, ComposerLyricist - D. Natche, ComposerLyricist - Louis Kevin Celestin, ComposerLyricist - Sounwave, Producer - Matthew Tavares, ComposerLyricist - Leland Whitty, ComposerLyricist - Jordan Cardy, ComposerLyricist - Alexander Sowinski, ComposerLyricist - C. John "Jack" Hansen, ComposerLyricist - George Noah Booth, ComposerLyricist - Dahi, Producer
℗ 2017 Aftermath/Interscope (Top Dawg Entertainment)
Greg Kurstin, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Kendrick Lamar, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - M. Spears, ComposerLyricist - Sounwave, Producer - Zacari, FeaturedArtist - Anthony 'Top Dawg' Tiffith, Producer - Anthony Tiffith, ComposerLyricist - Zacari Pacaldo, ComposerLyricist - Travis Walton, Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2017 Aftermath/Interscope (Top Dawg Entertainment)
Bono, ComposerLyricist - U2, FeaturedArtist - Adam Clayton, ComposerLyricist - Larry Mullen, ComposerLyricist - Michael L. Williams II, ComposerLyricist - The Edge, ComposerLyricist - Kendrick Lamar, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Jolyon Thomas, Vocal Producer, AssociatedPerformer - M. Spears, ComposerLyricist - D. Natche, ComposerLyricist - Mike Will Made-It, Producer - Sounwave, Producer - Bekon, Producer, Additional Producer - Anthony Tiffith, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Dahi, Producer
℗ 2017 Aftermath/Interscope (Top Dawg Entertainment)
The Alchemist, Producer - Dale Warren, ComposerLyricist - Alan Maman, ComposerLyricist - Kendrick Lamar, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2017 Aftermath/Interscope (Top Dawg Entertainment)
Kendrick Lamar, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Cardo, Producer - M. Spears, ComposerLyricist - D. Natche, ComposerLyricist - D. Tanenbaum, ComposerLyricist - Ricci Riera, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Sounwave, Producer - Ronald LaTour, ComposerLyricist - Daveon Jackson, ComposerLyricist - Brock Korsan, ComposerLyricist - Bekon, Producer - Anthony Tiffith, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Travis Walton, ComposerLyricist - Dahi, Producer
℗ 2017 Aftermath/Interscope (Top Dawg Entertainment)
Joseph W. Scott, ComposerLyricist - Bill Curtis, ComposerLyricist - Richard Cornwell, ComposerLyricist - JOHN KING, ComposerLyricist - DON D. ROBEY, ComposerLyricist - 9th Wonder, Producer - George Williams, ComposerLyricist - Kendrick Lamar, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Johnny Flippin, ComposerLyricist - Paul Bender, ComposerLyricist - Naomi Saalfield, ComposerLyricist - Simon Mavin, ComposerLyricist - Perrin Moss, ComposerLyricist - Janez Bončina, ComposerLyricist - Adolf Topić, ComposerLyricist - Bekon, Producer, Additional Producer - Earl Shelton, ComposerLyricist - Jean Matyka, ComposerLyricist - Pero Ugrin, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2017 Aftermath/Interscope (Top Dawg Entertainment)
Album review
To Pimp a Butterfly's proper and oft-biblical follow-up arrived on Good Friday, 13 months after untitled unmastered., an intermediary release that eclipsed the best work of most contemporary artists. If Kendrick Lamar felt pressure to continue living up to his previous output, there's no evidence on DAMN. He's too occupied tracing the spectrum of his mental states, from "boxin' demons" to "flex on swole," questioning and reveling in his affluence, castigating and celebrating his bloodline, humble enough to relate his vulnerabilities, assured enough to proclaim "Ain't none of y'all fuckin' with the flow." Throughout, he intensely examines most of the seven deadly sins, aware all along that his existence is threatened by anyone who objects to the color of his skin or clothes -- or, in the case of the blind stranger who shoots him during the album's opener, nothing that is apparent. Compared to the maximum-capacity, genre-twisting vastness and winding narratives of Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City and To Pimp a Butterfly, DAMN. on the surface seems like a comparatively simple rap album that demands less from the listener. There's relative concision in the track titles and material, and a greater emphasis on commercial sounds -- such as Mike WiLL's lean and piano-laced trap beat for the strong-arming "HUMBLE.," Lamar's first Top Ten pop hit, and a couple productions that are merely functional backdrops lacking distinction. In a way, however, DAMN. is just as lavish and singular as the preceding albums, its quantity and weight of thoughts and connected concepts condensed into a considerably tighter space. It contains some of Lamar's best writing and performances, revealing his evolving complexity and versatility as a soul-baring lyricist and dynamic rapper. Although it's occasionally distorted, stretched, smeared, and reversed to compelling and imagination-fueling effect, his voice is at its most affecting in its many untreated forms. Take "FEAR.," in which he switches between echoing hot-blooded parental threats to enumerating, with a 40-acre stare, various death scenarios. His storytelling hits an astonishing new high on "Duckworth," the album's finale. Over ethereal funk sewn by 9th Wonder, Lamar details a potentially tragic encounter between his father and future Top Dawg CEO Anthony Tiffith -- and the conditions leading to it -- that occurred long before Kung Fu Kenny was known as K. Dot.
© Andy Kellman /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 14 track(s)
- Total length: 00:55:01
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Kendrick Lamar
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Aftermath
- Genre: Hip-Hop/Rap
© 2017 Aftermath/Interscope (Top Dawg Entertainment) ℗ 2017 Aftermath/Interscope (Top Dawg Entertainment)
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