debuted atop Billboard 200 chart with 603,000 equivalent album units sold.
is visceral, spare, and straight to the point, whether he’s boasting about "royalty inside my DNA” on the trunk-rattling "DNA." or lamenting an anonymous, violent death on the soul-infused “FEAR.” No topic is too big to tackle, and the songs are as bold as their all-caps names: “PRIDE.” “LOYALTY.” “LOVE.” "LUST.” “GOD.” When he repeats the opening line to close the album, that simple walk has become a profound journey-further proof that no one commands the conversation like Kendrick Lamar. That Sunday night, Lamar closed the first weekend of Coachella with an acclaimed performance of new tracks from DAMN., as well as fan favorites from To Pimp a Butterfly, and good kid, m.A.A.d city.After first week of tracking DAMN. If Butterfly was jazz-inflected, soul-funk vibrance, DAMN. The album was recorded in studios throughout the United States, with executive production from Dr. The album is the follow-up to the rapper's critically-acclaimed 2012 Effort Good Kid, M.A.A.D City. is a grab-you-by-the-throat declaration that’s as blunt, complex, and unflinching as the name suggests. Kendrick Lamar's highly anticipated 2015 album, To Pimp a Butterfly: 'honest, fearful and unapologetic'.
The gunshot that abruptly ends the track is a signal: DAMN. To Pimp a Butterfly finds Kendrick Lamar unmoored, drilling into his subconscious as he meditates on blackness and his post- Good Kid celebrity. opens with a seemingly innocuous line-"So I was taking a walk the other day…”-we're all ears. In the two years since To Pimp a Butterfly, we’ve hung on Kendrick Lamar's every word-whether he’s destroying rivals on a cameo, performing the #blacklivesmatter anthem on top of a police car at the BET Awards, or hanging out with Obama.