All of this worked on me quite well.

TPAB is probably my favorite album in the last 10 years. I hear it like the West coast follow up to Voodoo and LWFC. And both of those ran my life when they dropped. I can’t say enough things about how Butterfly hit just right with where I was in my life at the time. My life as a listener of music had me completely ready to appreciate that album for everything it was trying to be.

>It's only on Spotify so you'd have to use that app which I
>know a lot of podcast listeners don't like, but it's most
>recent season was a five episode, just over 4 hour oral
>history of the making of Pimp a Butterfly and I could listen
>to stories about making that album maybe forever? I especially
>loved the third episode where they dive into how the musicians
>he surrounded himself with opened his eyes to what he could
>actually do with a follow up to Good Kid if he fully embraced
>the artistic community he was in the middle of.
>
>
>And I'd bet most OKPs know the gist of the story, how it's
>basically what happened to Mac Miller near the end of his
>career on steroids and condensed into just a year's worth of
>sessions, but it's still so wild to me that Kendrick had no
>inclination at all to make an album that sounded like that yet
>so eagerly put his trust in dudes like Terrace, Sounwave, Dave
>Free, Taz Arnold and even Dre to embrace so many different
>facets of Black musical history and run with it.
>
>
>I loved DAMN. and in many ways consider it his most straight
>up listenable album but these five-plus years have made me so,
>so excited for him to put an exclamation mark on his first 10
>years in the mainstream spotlight. There's such a small, small
>number of artists I'd expect to not get discouraged by the
>expectations surrounding their next album but the open-minded
>approach Kendrick has had to his music since Good Kid makes me
>feel like he absolutely can't fail. I'm not even expecting
>"The Best Kendrick Lamar Album Yet" nor am I even sure I want
>it...I just wanna hear what he's interested in putting out. I
>don't think I've felt that way about an artist other than
>Radiohead in my lifetime.
>
>
>EDIT: And as for what I THINK this album will be, based on his
>few public statements, the style of the promotion and feel of
>this teaser (this "Heart" series has always acted as a de
>facto teaser trailer for what his next project will sound
>like, right?) I'm crossing my fingers this is some insanely
>uplifting feeling type of album partly because it's just so
>hard to find a RAP album that'll try and be that anymore and I
>think Kendrick can find the right balance of spirituality,
>musicality and lyricism that Chance the Rapper stumbled so
>spectacularly to achieve on The Big Day.
>
>
>It'd be interesting to see Kendrick's last big move with Top
>Dawg be an argument for rap music that can catch on in the
>mainstream and not be either mindlessly populist or numbingly
>nihilist. I'd think I'd gone proper insane if I told myself
>even just four years ago that I'd be saying this but if he has
>something like Mac Miller's Swimming on his hands without that
>fatalist subtext I'd think it'd have an incredible influence
>on the next decade of rap...but we'll have to see if the whole
>thing will feel like this episode of "The Heart" does,
>obviously!
>
>
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