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Kendrick Lamar releases ‘To Pimp a Butterfly’ one week early

Second album is out now!

Kendrick Lamar releases 'To Pimp a Butterfly' one week early

Kendrick Lamar has shared his new album ‘To Pimp A Butterfly’ a week ahead of its original scheduled release. ‘To Pimp A Butterfly’ is the follow-up to 2012’s breakthrough album ‘Good Kid, M.A.A.D City’.

The album features the singles ‘i’ as well as the recently shared ‘Blacker The Berry’. The album opener ‘Wesley’s Theory’ features contributions from George Clinton and Thundercat, with a guest vocal from Snoop Dogg on the track ‘Institutionalized’. Producers for the album include Flying Lotus, Pharrell Williams, and Drake collaborator Boi-1da.

Listen to ‘To Pimp A Butterfly’ via Spotify below. The album is available on iTunes now.

‘To Pimp A Butterfly’ tracklist

1. ‘Wesley’s Theory’ (Feat. George Clinton & Thundercat)
2. ‘For Free? (Interlude)’
3. ‘King Kunta’
4. ‘Institutionalized’ (Feat. Bilal, Anna Wise, & Snoop Dogg)
5. ‘These Walls’ (Feat. Bilal, Anna Wise, & Thundercat)
6. ‘U’
7. ‘Alright’
8. “For Sale? (Interlude)”
9. ‘Momma’
10. ‘Hood Politics’
11. ‘How Much A Dollar Cost’ (Feat. James Fauntleroy & Ronald Isley)
12. ‘Complexion (A Zulu Love)’ (Feat. Rapsody)
13. ‘The Blacker The Berry’
14. ‘You Ain’t Gotta Lie (Momma Said)’
15. ‘i’
16. ‘Mortal Man’

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