![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Each contributes to this modern classic, as despairing and murky as it is lucid and fireball bright. This all collided with a resurgent jazz sensibility in rap – brass, blue notes, manic freedom, melancholy – primarily via LA beat scene luminaries Flying Lotus, Kamasi Washington and Thundercat. There was the murmur of creeping fascism, the roar of a re-energised black rights movement, and its roots in racist police shootings broadcast and protested across an infernal social media landscape. But with To Pimp a Butterfly, the Compton rapper became a cultural institution, as if summoned by the decade’s converging flash points. Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly (2015)īy 2015, Kendrick Lamar was already a grandmaster stylist. ![]()
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