He returns instead to a space of comfort: himself.Īn epic in ambition, scope, and subject matter, To Pimp a Butterfly called upon not only rap, but blues, funk, and jazz to try and make sense of a world of constant protests and daily news footage of black death at the hands of police. In response, Lamar doesn’t devote another 80 minutes to the black male experience of America. It’s been just two years since his critically adored To Pimp a Butterfly, but it feels closer to decades in the turns America’s taken. The response was divisive, but the song landed at #2 on the Billboard charts, showing that the Compton rapper is still at the center of many conversations. ![]() Once he dropped the single and video for “Humble.”, immediately there was a strong reaction to the body politics that were on display in the video. Kendrick Lamar can no longer escape success.
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