![]() ![]() But that’s precisely this album’s beauty: instead of shying away from the long shadow of To Pimp a Butterfly, untitled unmastered happily embraces that shared DNA, reveling in the subtleties that set it apart. Each song is time-stamped and untitled, stillborn inside the To Pimp a Butterfly session in which it was conceived. In the wrong hands, this line would have been self-insulating, insurance against some future transgression, but in Kendrick’s hands the line is a sincere invitation to take the blemishes seriously, to look onto a disfigured face and see the defects and not the dimples.įeaturing many of the same collaborators, themes and sonic templates as To Pimp A Butterfly, untitled unmastered necessarily lives in that album’s shadow. These attributes reach a head in "Untitled 05," with climactic swells and dramatic layering driving the thesis home.“Look at my flaws, look at my flaws,” Kendrick Lamar pleads on “untitled 06,” wooing a lover by highlighting his imperfections. Tracks 2 and 3 speak on dichotomy and differences among groups, and analyze how each "existence" operates in conjunction with factions and culture. The chaos present in the intro track ("Untitled 01") finds its way back through primal instrumentation and first verse delivery. "Untitled 05," nestled in the middle of the tracklist for the project, sees Kendrick Lamar and his TDE affiliates expressing their understanding of the happenstances that come with this existence. ![]() In the between time, during the conception of various bodies of work (namely To Pimp A Butterfly), Kendrick fought a war with reasoning and life itself, as evidenced on the project Untitled Unmastered. of 2017, he's journeyed through multiple levels of comprehension and acceptance. From 2011's rugged and raw Section.80, to the polished yet prolific DAMN. Discography brimming with self-reflection and external analysis, Kendrick's words have a way of seeping into the cracks of the psyche. 9 MAKE IT STOP With an over 5-minute runtime, "untitled 05" serves as an exegesis of the unconscious and uncontrollable.Ĭompton native Kendrick Lamar is widely hailed as the greatest storyteller of a generation. ![]()
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