Kendrick Lamar scrapped 2 or 3 albums to make TPAB

[AtlasUnplugged]

The person who wrote that article knows about as much about the process of creating an album as they know about quoting. This is what Kendrick said:

"It's not a concept I want you to grasp in one day. I want it to live forever. To Pimp a Butterfly, twenty years from now it'll probably be more relevant [sic] to your life than it is today."

But "hip hop fans" will find any reason to hate on Kenny

 

[Mr Clean]

that's not unusual at all

 

[Funcrusher]

And if that album had hit our ear drums instead of To Pimp a Butterfly, how would hip-hop and the world have been different?

I don't like these kind of statements, what pretentious douchebag wrote this?

 

[DeuceCypherUno]

Usually true geniuses/artists don't need to SAY that their art will be understood only later on.

RZA said people weren't going to understand Wu-Tang Forever till the year 2000.

 

[A.V.]

The K. Dot hate on here is really, really odd

. Cacs

 

[Music Fiend]

Dumb smart nikka quotes. And I think it's wack af to record hella music snd never drop it.


Dropping 5 to 10 songs I get. 20 to 30 and that's ridiculous. Kinda shows me u just wingin it

 

[SirBiatch]

RZA said people weren't going to understand Wu-Tang Forever till the year 2000.

and no surprise, shyt is mostly trash.

 

[SpacelySprockets]

shoulda kept them shyts

or scrapped a 4th album to make an actually good one

 

[onlylno]

Am I the only who who believes these artists are talking out if their ass during these interviews? 20 years to be understood? Ok still a great album

"Sgt Pepper -> What's going on, --> Thriller ---> To Pimp a Butterfly."

 

[Piff Perkins]

I remember DJ Mustard in early 2014 that he sent Kendrick some beats and heard the album would be similar to the type of shyt he does. Kendrick also worked with Mike Will, DJ Dahi, Q-Tip, Battlecat, Alchemist, and some others during that period.

Whatever they scrapped probably sounded like GKMC production wise. Speaking of which I wonder if Kendrick is finished with trap and traditional hip hop sounds now? Will he continue to go further with funk or jazz stuff, or mix things. Sec80 was a nice mixture of jazz with more modern sounds, I hope he goes back to that with some west coast funk mixed in.

 

[onlylno]

"After All Eyes On Me, Tupac became Makavelli. After To Pimp a Butterfly, I became Tupac"

 

[Newzz]

I remember DJ Mustard in early 2014 that he sent Kendrick some beats and heard the album would be similar to the type of shyt he does. Kendrick also worked with Mike Will, DJ Dahi, Q-Tip, Battlecat, Alchemist, and some others during that period.

Whatever they scrapped probably sounded like GKMC production wise. .

GKMC was > TPAB imo....so I REALLY wonder what material he threw out, because if it sounded like basically GKMC 2, we all lost

 

[SuburbanPimp]

Its crazy how much going to Africa effects people. I've seen it with people in my own family. I'm glad he did that, album definitely has a different perspective than most rappers these days....

But I hope they didn't literally scrap those other records. It would be dope to see them resurface one day

 

[Newzz]

Its crazy how much going to Africa effects people. I've seen it with people in my own family. I'm glad he did that, album definitely has a different perspective than most rappers these days....

But I hope they didn't literally scrap those other records. It would be dope to see them resurface one day

At least as a mixtape


Maybe it will be his version of "The Lost Tapes"

 

[SirBiatch]

Its crazy how much going to Africa effects people. I've seen it with people in my own family. I'm glad he did that, album definitely has a different perspective than most rappers these days....

But I hope they didn't literally scrap those other records. It would be dope to see them resurface one day

How did it affect them?