This poem is one of two, found in Kendrick Lamar’s critically acclaimed third album To Pimp a Butterfly and contains a message concerning the African-American race as a whole, both the good and...

To Pimp a Butterfly is Kendrick Lamar’s second major label studio album, and third full-length project. It was released via Top Dawg Entertainment, Aftermath Entertainment, and Interscope Records....

Mar 24, 2015 · Like that album, To Pimp a Butterfly sees Kendrick go through another transition, but this time round it’s a poem, or as he puts it at the end of “Mortal Man”, “something you could probably...

May 8, 2015 · To truly appreciate To Pimp a Butterfly, one must consider it within the context of Kendrick Lamar’s previous albums. If good kid, m.A.A.d city is Ulysses then To Pimp a Butterfly is naturally A...

By noticing his true potential in his rap abilities Kendrick transformed into a butterfly. "The butterfly represents the talent, the thoughtfulness and the beauty within the caterpillar." This line from the poem best describes the change within him and many others.

Mar 16, 2015 · As the Compton king’s new songs penetrate your brain cells, slow down, and analyze the words that he so desperately wanted Tupac to hear. On the album’s very last track, “Mortal Man,” the rapper...

To Pimp a Butterfly is an ambitious and extraordinary epic of magical realist and Afro-futurist poetry committed to the relentless, courageous exploration of its core philosophical problem.

Jan 21, 2021 · TPAB is an album that deals with materialism, racism, oppression, and above all else, self-love. The album’s title T o Pimp a Butterfly, while a clever nod to Harper Lee’s To Kill a...

Jun 28, 2020 · The central themes in ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ (and therefore TPAB) are directly addressed by this closing poem. In Harper Lee’s novel, Tom Robinson, a black man, is destroyed by a system ...

May 10, 2023 · I get how the album was originally in honor of Tupac (to pimp a caterpillar) but what is the poem that’s repeated (“I remember you was conflicted….”) Question Share