Kendrick Lamar's All Time Classic - To Pimp a Butterfly 5th Anniversary (Come Pay Your Respects)

[Majestic]

5 years ago, TPAB dropped and this Phenomenal album catapulted Kendrick into being an all time great. The argument can be made that it is the greatest hiphop album of all time and a top 10 album of all time across all genres. I never thought Kanye West's My Beautiful dark Twisted Fantasy would be surpassed in the 2010 decade but Kendrick had other plans.

Let's be clear here, no other rapper can make an album like TPAB, you need the right producers, the right instrumentalists, the right directors, you need someone who is very knowledgeable in black music. Kendrick will likely never top this, and that's OK, you simply cannot top perfection.

Pay your respects.

 

[Waterproof]

A Masterpiece When you digest the album you start seeing the genius of it from the musicians, mixing, lyrics, the theme and it captures a moment in time in American Black History with American Black Music

 

[Pure Water]

Just listened to it this morning. Timeless.

 

[Majestic]

A Masterpiece When you digest the album you start seeing the genius of it from the musicians, mixing, lyrics, the theme and it captures a moment in time in American Black History with American Black Music

Yep. I knew wasn't tripping when I told my brehs it was a classic the same day it dropped. It brilliantly captured every aspect of black music from the 60s to the early 2000s. No other rap album is as daring as TPAB.

 

[2ATMsYouSteppinOrWhat]

good album...
the 2Pac interview is kinda meh...
the skits on the album make it a little hard to replay...

but

Hood Politics
These Walls
How Much A Dollar Cost
King Kunta
U

 

[Piff Perkins]

Undeniable classic

 

[Big Mel]

NOPE.

 

[JA_Carter]

My fav rap album ever pretty much an amalgamation of black music (jazz, funk, g-funk, R&B and of course hip hop).

Such a personal and introspective album about a black man going from hopeless to hopeful and appreciating his blackness. Damn near any black person in any white man’s country should be able to relate.

Above all, it’s enjoyable to listen to if you haven’t been conditioned to only appreciate the modern hip hop sound. My dad played a lot of artists like Funkadelics, MJ, James Brown, Miles Davis, Bob Marley etc so it was easy for me to accept the sound. It was extremely brave and risky taking such a left turn after dropping the career changer that was GKMC. Everyone was expecting a direct sequel and this put a lot of folks off but I loved it. Artists like Kanye & Outkast are legends for being brave and never making the same album twice, Kendrick is from their cloth.

The album’s topics are still as relevant as when the album dropped. This album will never leave my rotation.

 

[Ashtrey]

The last classic in hip hop. Hasn't been one since.

 

[Eastside Get The Money]

LAD
MATW
Reasonable Doubt
Illmatic or Paid in Full
TPAB

Top 5(6) all time

 

[thaKEAF]

Easily the best album of the decade for me. I can always go back to it in full with no skips or even just bump single songs. Won’t be fully appreciated for a while.

 

[Sonic Boom of the South]

This random ass shoebedadoobop ass skatt music

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

Mommy- I know everything

 

[OGBIGBOY187]

im not the biggest kendrick fan like how i was during the pre gkmc era but i feel like this album was released at the right time cuz this wouldve been meh in any other era

 

[Killalex]

Timeless. Last certified classic we've had (maybe Astroworld in trap)

Wesley's Theory
King Kunta
These Walls
Alright
How Much
Blacker the Berry
You ain't gotta lie

all

Insane tracklist.