Kendrick Lamar is the artist of the generation and for the artist of the generation nothing less than the album of the generation is expected and with “To Pimp A Butterfly “ Kendrick Delivered! A masterpiece album that artistically and lyrically expresses social and cultural issues while breaking down the wall between the artist and the listener. To pimp a Butterfly is an instant classic.
The album flows like a good book with track-by-track advancement of the theme, which starts with the song Wesley’s theory a funky song, which infuses funk and hip hop, without feeling awkward or wrong. Wesley's theory can be connected to the article "Black rockers and Blackies who rock" because The way Kendrick pieces the song together really establishes the colder and funkier theme that the album has "Produce the narrowest musical taste possible". In that quote they are speaking to the how hip hop puts itself into a box but i believe kendrick infuses so many different genres…show more content… This song not only explains the poem but also goes into the meaning of the album title. I the bringing we hear the same old rendition of the same poem and I am thinking not this again but after a few minutes we hear dialogue with another artist and as time passes we learn that this poem is not just a poem but an interview Kendrick is doing in his album of the late great Tupac Shakur where he reads him the poem and asks Tupac about the social problems of the day and the way the interview plays out you would have though Tupac was in the room with him and it goes into beautifully done song which critiques the music industry
