To Pimp a Butterfly

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To Pimp a Butterfly
Studio album by Kendrick Lamar

Publication
(s)

March 16, 2015

Label (s) Top Dawg Entertainment
Aftermath Entertainment
Interscope Records

Format (s)

CD , LP

Genre (s)

Hip-hop , conscious rap , jazz rap

Title (number)

16

running time

78:51

production

Dr. Dre , Anthony Tiffith, Pharrell Williams , Rahki, Terrace Martin, Thundercat , Boi-1da, Flying Lotus , Sounwave and others. a.

Studio (s)

chronology
Good Kid, Maad City
(2012)
To Pimp a Butterfly DAMN.
(2017)
Single releases
23rd September 2014 i
February 9, 2015 The Blacker The Berry
March 9, 2015 King Kunta
June 30, 2015 Alright
October 13, 2015 These walls

To Pimp a Butterfly is the third studio album by the American rapper Kendrick Lamar . It was released on March 16, 2015 via the independent labels Top Dawg and Aftermath Entertainment as well as the Universal subsidiary Interscope Records .

To Pimp a Butterfly was awarded a total of five Grammy Awards , for best rap album , best rap performance , twice for best rap song and for best rap collaboration .

The cover photo is from Denis Rouvre.

Track list

  1. Wesley's Theory (feat.George Clinton & Thundercat ) - 4:47
  2. For Free? (Interlude) - 2:10
  3. King Kunta - 3:54
  4. Institutionalized ( feat.Bilal , Anna Wise & Snoop Dogg ) - 4:31
  5. These Walls (feat.Bilal, Anna Wise & Thundercat) - 5:00
  6. u - 4:28
  7. Alright - 3:39
  8. For sale? (Interlude) - 4:51
  9. Momma - 4:43
  10. Hood Politics - 4:52
  11. How Much a Dollar Cost (feat.James Fauntleroy & Ronald Isley) - 4:21
  12. Complexion (A Zulu Love) ( feat.Rapsody ) - 4:23
  13. The Blacker The Berry ( feat.Assassin ) - 5:28
  14. You Ain't Gotta Lie (Momma Said) - 4:01
  15. i - 5:36
  16. Mortal Man - 12:07

reception

success

The album set a record on the Spotify streaming service , as it was viewed 9.6 million times on the first day.

The album was sold 324,000 times in the US in the first week of its release, making it to number 1 on the American Billboard 200 album chart .

In the USA the album was sold over a million times and thus reached platinum status.

criticism

source rating
Allmusic
Rolling Stone
The Guardian
Pitchfork Media
Spin
Music Express
Laut.de
Popmatters
Juice
Plattentests.de

The US website Metacritic .com, which summarizes reviews from various editors, rates the album with an average of 96%. To Pimp a Butterfly is one of the highest rated rap albums in the database .

Aria Nejati wrote for Hiphop.de that the album was " a challenge for his attentive listener ". Those who manage to understand the album musically have " still to do a lot of text comprehension work ". To Pimp A Butterfly have expectations " surpassed with ease " and aims " to the drawer with Marvin Gaye's What's Going On from ".

The e-zine Laut.de rated To Pimp A Butterfly with five out of a possible five points. The editor David Maurer declares Lamar's third album the " best and most important rap album of the year ".

The Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung also praised the album: “This album is a thoroughly composed rap opera. This album is a bomb. "

Sven Aumiller, editor of the hip-hop magazine MZEE , describes the record as an “ Escher-eske work of art ”, in which everything remains logically interwoven despite the initial confusion. With To Pimp A Butterfly , the artist succeeded in another stroke of genius.

Chart placements

Charts Top ranking Weeks
Chart placements
Germany (GfK) Germany (GfK) 7th (10 weeks) 10
Austria (Ö3) Austria (Ö3) 15th (8 weeks) 8th
Switzerland (IFPI) Switzerland (IFPI) 3 (18 weeks) 18th
United Kingdom (OCC) United Kingdom (OCC) 1 (40 weeks) 40
United States (Billboard) United States (Billboard) 1 (125 weeks) 125

Individual evidence

  1. ^ How Kendrick Lamar and photographer Denis Rouvre continue to write history ( German ) Spex.de. Archived from the original on March 19, 2015. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 19, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.spex.de
  2. News on the streaming record ( English ) Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved March 19, 2015.
  3. billboard.com: Kendrick Lamar Earns His First No. 1 album on Billboard 200 Chart , March 25, 2015, accessed July 7, 2017.
  4. Review by David Jeffries on Allmusic.com (accessed April 7, 2015)
  5. Review by Greg Tate on RollingStone.com (accessed April 7, 2015)
  6. Review by Alex Macpherson on TheGuardian.com (accessed April 7, 2015)
  7. Review by Craig Jenkins on Pitchfork.com (accessed April 7, 2015)
  8. Review by Dan Weiss on spin.com (accessed October 2, 2017)
  9. Review by Ivo Ligeti on musikexpress.de (accessed on October 2, 2017)
  10. Review by David Maurer on Laut.de (accessed April 7, 2015)
  11. Review by Colin Fitzgerald on PopMatters.com (accessed April 7, 2015)
  12. Review by Sascha Ehlert on juice.de (accessed on October 2, 2017)
  13. [1] on Plattentests.de (accessed on November 29, 2019)
  14. Metascore Rap Albums: All-Time High Scores on Metacritic, accessed April 27, 2015
  15. Aria Nejati: Whole World Watchin ': Kendrick Lamar sets new standards once again ( German ) Hiphop.de. Retrieved March 19, 2015.
  16. ^ Laut.de: A butterfly story for eternity. Retrieved March 19, 2015 .
  17. FAS of March 22, 2015 / Antonia Baum, p. 40: These walls
  18. Sven Aumiller: Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly. Retrieved on August 11, 2019 (German).
  19. a b c d e Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US