Well… that song was recorded by the two in 2010, so he probably wasn’t aware at the time. He did record a verse for ‘Father Stretch My Hands Pt. 1’ that didn’t make it onto the album either.
A lot of people don't realize that Kendrick didn't have inspiration to start a new project for a long time. That's what makes this album so great. It wasn't years in the making. He was enjoying his tour and the work from GKMC
nah, him and Sounwave have both said they were working on this for 2-3 years. Sounwave says Kendrick never stopped working. one of the songs on the album was rmade during the yeezus tour
JDominguez they didn't know where they were going with it for a long time know. Kendrick was shouting out GKMC before Section.80 dropped when it was still called Good Kid In a Mad City
He's such a deep and introspective person, kinda reminds me of like a modern day Roger Waters - that's why he's able to write these concept albums which keep it real and are touching on an emotional level as well as being seriously satisfying on an artistic level
I kinda feel bad for Kendrick Because he has to answer the same questions for the next couple months over and over again.Like can't the interviewers just look it up just like we do.
It isn't for the interviewers, its for the listeners. They answers questions to clarify or inform the public of what means what. Gets repetitive, yeah, but all artists do this when they drop an album.
Mr Sir yeah bro he wrote it the day before he performed it cuz he didn't want to perform any of the songs that he wrote for his album i was mind blown too
Hands down...best Hiphop album of the year!!! I thought J-Cloe had a good one but it does not have the Spiritual essence and socially conscious rhythm that haunts and tugs at my soul. This album says and addresses all the things that need to be said of the time and space of today.
+Malamute You must be crazy, Travis Scott may have the views because of "Antidote" but he's as good as fucking young thug and the rest of them non rapping ass niggas. All them can't even touch Kendrick on lyrics and truth. King Kendrick all day
i hated to pimp a butterfly when i first herd it. i was def numb to the sound it had and i wanted to hear the current "Hip Pop" kinda sound...but then when i listened to it later I LOVEEEEEEEEED it so much. this album is so powerful. Truly a great album....front to back.
Aaron Black i see what you getting at but kendrick really wouldve named it 2 Pimp A Caterpillar i really doubt he wouldve left it as To Pimp A Caterpillar(Tpac lol kendrick aint dumb)
Dude, I like Kendrick Lamar's voice dude. He also sounds very intelligent. I love how he expands on thinking outside the box when rapping & talking about the events of the world today.
I've listened to all of KL's albums and they are just amazing. To pimp a butterfly is the best of all of them. Then good kid, Maad city, then section 80 last.
His new album is to real for mainstream..ofcourse its not going to blow up how most of us think it is non the less will stay in the mainstream due to his humble character. Kng knt
I’m a black black guy that came from a family of brown and blue eyes. My wife is white/black with brown and green eyes in her family. My 3 kids have Hazel, Brown, and Blue eyes, in that order. As someone coming from strong black roots, I can attest, “we are all one people.” And one day, in the future (hopefully not too far in the future), there will be only one race, the human race.
Kendrick is seriously next level... Dude is connected to a universal consciousness a lot of people only dip their toes into a few times in their life.. Dude is wicked smart.
Here is to hoping that in the future he releases an official album with all the bits and pieces of songs (colbert untitled, pyrex, temptation, etc) that did not make it
dirt rain Yeah but that's his decision, he didn't think he would like it on this since it is coherent with this album but he could release it on a mixtape in the future.
lmao at dude saying kanye sucks. He's been better than kendrick GKMC was cool and all but I ain't even playing that shit no more everyone still plays kanye
A Kendrick an cole album at the peak of both their careers would just finish the entire world honestly the only goated thing to happen in the shithole of a year, probably won’t happen this year but lemme dream man 😓
Damn...when he said she needs me is the first song he had on the radio I felt like a boss cuz I remember hearing that of OD so I've been on kdot since the jump
I was really anticipating the song untitled he did on Colbert one it was really good and there was a powerful message behind it also tying in with blacker the berry and i nd it was a new Kendrick Lamar with the funk and soul vibe and now thinking about the album it really tied in good with To A Pimp A Butterfly and the story guess while never hear it within the album would of been good tho 😔😕
pizaz1001 nah bruh i think they were actually just trying to be nice. They dont doubt what Kendrick can do, thats a dangerous game. I think they genuinely just curious bout what its like to have a person like kendrick in front of you just to speak with. That shitd be crazy. Especially talking about these topics with him straight up
I would love to just sit and listen to him share his unreleased work and to go into the deeper meanings of his album art/title. He keeps saying there are other meanings but no one ever asks him to explain further.
Kendrick sees himself as the spirtual descendant or successor of Shakur, just like a Butterfly is in someway to a Caterpillar.. So it was never supposed to be "to pimp a caterpillar" tupac is passed. now it's time for the butterfly (Kendrick)
Yes but 'Tu Pimp a Caterpillar' is a stretch considering Tu isn't a word and when abbreviated it would spell TPAC not TuPAC. Good thing Kendrick changed it though
Yo I saw Kendrick interview with Narduwar before he dropped this album, the interviewer showing him an old album that looked like To Pimp’s cover. I wonder why he didn’t mention that it was his inspiration for the cover. He even asked the interviewer if he could take the old album home - he was that fascinated by it
Even when he talks it sounds like he's spitting bars..
LMBO right!!!
He sound like my essays from back in high school. Lots of bsing.
Im thinking the same thing
Yessir
+Adrian By far, realest negus alive
I like how Kendrick talks slow and thinks about every sentence he is about to say
thats cuz he know the whole world listening
Obama Flow
@@markmessina100 literally who?
One of the oldest sayings “ think before you speak “
True
I love how Kendrick isn't flashy like most rappers,he keeps it simple.he just looks like a regular dude.
but guess what the price tag is on his clothes lol it's probably hundreds of dollars lowkey
+Juan Villarreal he was wearing overalls at my family reunion then this year some slides he dresses casual
you're related? Thats badass lol
Yeah bro i have pics with him on my ig theres one and we playin tugawar lol
that's badass lol
"I'm not releasing those songs" *year later Untitled unmastered releases*
Yeah he only released it because Lebron James asked him to
+Gabrielle A For Real?? Where's this info from?
everyone should know about this bro haha
yh that was mad fr
dramallama29 bruh thats cartoons and cereal
If Kendrick Lamar ever drops an unreleased tracks album.............
He's dropped 3 Bruh
isubscribe4life they're fan made.
+Cole Johnson The world will end
😉
+Cole Johnson HE JUST DID. YOU ARE A PROPHET
My nigga Kendrick always been humble/real. God bless
Dreamosityyy bitch be humble
Humble you say?
Xamrock file why yes my dear sir
I see, interesting.
FaZe Fruntier bitch, sit down
3:47 " Are you on Kanye's album"
Kendrick: No.
A year later...... NO MORE PARTIES IN LA
Now we all learn when people say no to a question as fast as 0.1 miliseconds it means yes
Well… that song was recorded by the two in 2010, so he probably wasn’t aware at the time. He did record a verse for ‘Father Stretch My Hands Pt. 1’ that didn’t make it onto the album either.
At 10:10 dude locks in to a mental vault and starts whispering a memorized lost verse. That's a real MC, fools!
C
This man can rap ma boy. Respect to one of the greatest
bruh who u callin a fool, we all like kendrick on here headass smh
@@skulltamer9 lmao
YO,
KENDRICK REALLY GAVE US AN ALBUM NO ONE WILL BE ABLE TO TOP IN THESE EARLY STAGES OF THE 21st CENTURY.
J S fr I feel tpab is truly a classic
Kenny’s like a memory bank and tape recorder on 🔥
2014 forest hills drive
Google User HAHAHAHAHA no
We livin in the best timeline with kendricks TPAB and kanyes MBDTF
I wish I could talk like this dude.
he has an awesome voice
@@jonathansanchez2797and a better message.
A lot of people don't realize that Kendrick didn't have inspiration to start a new project for a long time. That's what makes this album so great. It wasn't years in the making. He was enjoying his tour and the work from GKMC
nah, him and Sounwave have both said they were working on this for 2-3 years. Sounwave says Kendrick never stopped working. one of the songs on the album was rmade during the yeezus tour
not true. Jdominguez is right, in an interview with soundwave, he said that they were constantly recording immediately after he released good kid.
JDominguez they didn't know where they were going with it for a long time know. Kendrick was shouting out GKMC before Section.80 dropped when it was still called Good Kid In a Mad City
JDominguez I watched an interview of him saying he wasn't working on an album. He specifically said he didnt have the inspiration yet
When was this
Kendrick's so down to Earth it's refreshing af.
He's such a deep and introspective person, kinda reminds me of like a modern day Roger Waters - that's why he's able to write these concept albums which keep it real and are touching on an emotional level as well as being seriously satisfying on an artistic level
Great connection, I love pink Floyd
pink flooooooyd
Kdot could be considered a modern day Waters in levels of genius. But at least Kendrick isn't an egomaniacal ass.
I kinda feel bad for Kendrick Because he has to answer the same questions for the next couple months over and over again.Like can't the interviewers just look it up just like we do.
Seriously.
It isn't for the interviewers, its for the listeners. They answers questions to clarify or inform the public of what means what. Gets repetitive, yeah, but all artists do this when they drop an album.
Straight up. All interviews are asshole. only ones I've ever liked is Ebro rosenberg charlemane and Vladtvs interviews
MrDisposableKid same
I'd get high as shit before every Interview
1:37 Inspiration came from South Africa!!!
I felt so special
Kendrick need to drop a To Pimp a Butterfly Directors Cut, with all the tracks on there lol
Malamute bruh get away from me
+ezthejedi bruh you need a bra
Malamute You need a life
+ezthejedi you need to get back to africa
Malamute You need to get a life & somebody that love you
Man I really wanted that song on The Colbert Report on the album, That shit was too dope man.
***** Are you serious?? Bruh nobody on EARTH is on this Kendrick's level.
Mr Sir yeah bro he wrote it the day before he performed it cuz he didn't want to perform any of the songs that he wrote for his album i was mind blown too
Ikr!!!!!!! Like tf but idc tho I got the song and to pimp a butterfly 😁😁😁
Mr Sir There are other people on and even exceed his level he's good no doubt but don't make ignorant statements
Sid Dye Bruh name 1. & Oh yah, it's all subjective dumbass, so I could genuinely feel this way. Now, don't make ignorant statements.
How Much A Dollar Cost is a deep track.
Paul Wilkins Man I have that song on repeat every time I hear that song
+Malamute people still troll? lmao
Paul Wilkins 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Real talk I had my muma listening to the story
that’s the turning point of the perspective
I want to meet him in real life so bad
Same
same
AmbitiousRidah sure! That will be considered to me as disrespecting yourslef
bro i met him in a dream.
Barry Odhiambo ok duckweed
Im a Zulu in South Africa...thanks Kendrick lamar for the wonderful album
Hands down...best Hiphop album of the year!!! I thought J-Cloe had a good one but it does not have the Spiritual essence and socially conscious rhythm that haunts and tugs at my soul. This album says and addresses all the things that need to be said of the time and space of today.
+Gerald McCarter best hip hop album is travis scott niggah
+Malamute LOL chill man
+Malamute You must be crazy, Travis Scott may have the views because of "Antidote" but he's as good as fucking young thug and the rest of them non rapping ass niggas. All them can't even touch Kendrick on lyrics and truth. King Kendrick all day
+Malamute 😂😂😂😂
Gerald McCarter nigga J. Cole dropped nothing on 2015, watchu on about?🤔
That's powerful -"it's just for me"
Realist shit I've heard from any rapper.
Verse starts at 10:30
Thank u
The verse is from Falsehood, a lost track that didn't make To Pimp A Butterfly & it is on UA-cam haha
Cruz tries so hard to be like big boy lmao
So true
thanks for the comments! we will take note
Power 106 Los Angeles - Where Hip Hop Lives! lmaooo
Power 106 Los Angeles - Where Hip Hop Lives!
Hahahaha
Power 106 Los Angeles - Where Hip Hop Lives! HAHA !
i hated to pimp a butterfly when i first herd it. i was def numb to the sound it had and i wanted to hear the current "Hip Pop" kinda sound...but then when i listened to it later I LOVEEEEEEEEED it so much. this album is so powerful. Truly a great album....front to back.
Can’t say I agree with this but I completely understand it
I was so much into GKMC, so I kinda didn't like TPAB first, I gave it another try a year later, and boi it blew my mind.
A lot of Kendrick’s songs are like that!! It’s so different, it takes time to get used to them
Why isn't Kendrick releasing that song he performed on Colbert Report? I needs that son!
Made specifically for the show
He made it the day before the show, i just wish the Colbert Report uploaded a high quality version of the album
ADAJ3 i still downloaded that shit lol fucking dope
About to download it too. I was just hoping it would appear on the album
***** How did you download it
The interviewer is speaking too much. Let the genius ramble on, please!
the guy interviewing him says bro a little too much. he needs to chill lmao.
People are missing the spiritual function of this album, everyone is focused on the black and white aspect. Kendrick did a good job.
Kendrick's voice is so cool. imagine how cool it would be for him to narrate a movie
Crazy how he said we going to Africa with kdot, then he dropped the black panther album.
No its not haha
With the WEEKND who is African‼️
i can listen to kendrick speak all day
TO PIMP A CATERPILLAR = 2PAC
u reaching...i see you.
Aaron Black deadendhiphop.com had said that. Miss you, man. Hope all is well.
Aaron Black i see what you getting at but kendrick really wouldve named it 2 Pimp A Caterpillar i really doubt he wouldve left it as To Pimp A Caterpillar(Tpac lol kendrick aint dumb)
Lol yup that would've spoiled the whole album
Aaron Black he even said it in an interview that that was the meaning.
4:27 when he said untitled 3 was never going to release and he released it
Dude, I like Kendrick Lamar's voice dude. He also sounds very intelligent. I love how he expands on thinking outside the box when rapping & talking about the events of the world today.
Kendrick Lamar & J. Cole - Temptation......releasethat man..
No more parties in La
thank goodness he made it on kanye's album
Thomas Whiddon what track?
metube No More Parties In L.A.
I'm from South Africa, respect to Kendrick lamar. I am white and don't stay in the jungle with lions lol
@Mapps Maponya Same😅😅😅
This guy won’t let Kendrick talk
this interviewer is way too pushy
i love how he said he wasnt on Ye's album, but he was and he wasnt releasing the untitled song but he did. my man
Still waiting for the teaser song that plays in alright
i didnt like how they tried to force the verse out....
Damn. I wish I could hear the songs that didn't make the album. He said on another interview he made like 40+ songs.
Maybe one day he'll just make a whole album of all these songs.
untitled unmastered
He never said that. No lie.
1 of my favorite albums of the year.. I play it daily!
The guy asking the questions has got to talk less. we not here to listen to you dictate the conversation, let Kendrick talk and stop interrupting
The Day he'll gone, we will remember him as God MC. Mark my Words!
He's so candid I love Kendrick.
I've listened to all of KL's albums and they are just amazing. To pimp a butterfly is the best of all of them. Then good kid, Maad city, then section 80 last.
I love how he talks
2:24 unintentional bars... sad thing is that line right there is better than majority of todays rappers lyrics
We'd love to have Kendrick Lamar back in the mother land anytime 😎😍.. much love from South Africa, JHB
"They may say I suffer from schizophrenia or something, but homie, you made me"
I feel like that's another line that can relate to the album artwork.
Hangin’ on every word of Kendrick’s. Captivating individual.
The track prob is Falsehood, a resent leak. Incredible song
Momma is the best track on the album. Probably the best track he has ever made.. genius work.
His new album is to real for mainstream..ofcourse its not going to blow up how most of us think it is non the less will stay in the mainstream due to his humble character. Kng knt
Yea but i hope Alright becomes a hit
one year later the album is platinum and won 5 grammies in one night from 11 nominations
I’m a black black guy that came from a family of brown and blue eyes.
My wife is white/black with brown and green eyes in her family.
My 3 kids have Hazel, Brown, and Blue eyes, in that order.
As someone coming from strong black roots, I can attest, “we are all one people.” And one day, in the future (hopefully not too far in the future), there will be only one race, the human race.
They talk about how he should get on Life of Pablo with Kanye.
He comes out with *No More Parties in LA?!*
he preachin the truth shoutout from Africa
i rewatch a kendrick and cole interview like every day great on and off the mic
Kendrick Lamar is the most contrevatial artist of our time a poet a master mind and hood prophet
Kendrick is seriously next level...
Dude is connected to a universal consciousness a lot of people only dip their toes into a few times in their life..
Dude is wicked smart.
5 years later and we still on this subject.
Here is to hoping that in the future he releases an official album with all the bits and pieces of songs (colbert untitled, pyrex, temptation, etc) that did not make it
That verse is on the big boy freestyle
Yeah i know i wanted to hear what else he had. Kdot is the most selfish rapper today . i know he sitting on fire that we will never hear
dirt rain How is he selfish?
dirt rain Thats nothing new lol
dirt rain what artist tend to do is sit on thoses records and then release them years later or save them for another project.
dirt rain Yeah but that's his decision, he didn't think he would like it on this since it is coherent with this album but he could release it on a mixtape in the future.
Kendrick is bridging the gap between middle America and Compton unlike any other rapper before him.
Seeing me inspired Kendrick Lamars Album. Now i have to know every lyric of every song by ❤❤❤i already can rap along a few songs
0:10 I swear he almost said "album of the year"
Funny thing is he made it on Kanyes new album
all I want is that Colbert song :(
He didnt even share a verse. They titled it as this just for the views. Fucking wack
Such a beautiful soul ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Here in June 2020 and damn it’s still prevalent
Damn he really didn't know he was going to be on TLOP spitting bars at the time
Wow, A Kanye x Kendrick would be legendary !!!!!
Kanye production, with Kendrick.
***** kanye sucks
lmao at dude saying kanye sucks. He's been better than kendrick GKMC was cool and all but I ain't even playing that shit no more everyone still plays kanye
MrDisposableKid Lol yeezus was garbage.
MrDisposableKid find someone to play with real talk
Bruh Kendrick carried this Interview bro what were these questions/remarks.
Did you notice how kendrick said they change the frequencies of songs when they play them ? : 0
0:29 That turned into a deep depression.
A Kendrick an cole album at the peak of both their careers would just finish the entire world honestly the only goated thing to happen in the shithole of a year, probably won’t happen this year but lemme dream man 😓
Damn...when he said she needs me is the first song he had on the radio I felt like a boss cuz I remember hearing that of OD so I've been on kdot since the jump
Nowadays we have rappers more concentrated in rhyming. Kendrick is a poet when you listen to him you feel what he is saying. His songs talk to you
I was really anticipating the song untitled he did on Colbert one it was really good and there was a powerful message behind it also tying in with blacker the berry and i nd it was a new Kendrick Lamar with the funk and soul vibe and now thinking about the album it really tied in good with To A Pimp A Butterfly and the story guess while never hear it within the album would of been good tho 😔😕
thaaaaaaaaaaannnnnkkk u kendrick, 4 toking good about africa...its bout time people saw how good our continent is
"And what does 'To Pimp a Butterfly' exactly mean?"
"Yeah"
'take your time', bruh that shit seemed condescending af
pizaz1001 nah bruh i think they were actually just trying to be nice. They dont doubt what Kendrick can do, thats a dangerous game. I think they genuinely just curious bout what its like to have a person like kendrick in front of you just to speak with. That shitd be crazy. Especially talking about these topics with him straight up
Bruh this interviewer just likes to hear his own voice, he gotta let the man speak and stop interrupting
I would love to just sit and listen to him share his unreleased work and to go into the deeper meanings of his album art/title. He keeps saying there are other meanings but no one ever asks him to explain further.
Kendrick needs to release these songs man
My dude has such an old soul
Actually the other title was "Tu Pimp a Caterpillar: TuPAC"
thats dumb as fuck
+J M It's true though
Kendrick sees himself as the spirtual descendant or successor of Shakur, just like a Butterfly is in someway to a Caterpillar.. So it was never supposed to be "to pimp a caterpillar" tupac is passed. now it's time for the butterfly (Kendrick)
Yes but 'Tu Pimp a Caterpillar' is a stretch considering Tu isn't a word and when abbreviated it would spell TPAC not TuPAC. Good thing Kendrick changed it though
2 pimp a butterfly
Maaaan they’re talking about 3 years between drops. Little did they know..
This guy is a YOUNG G.O.A.T in the making... This Man is gon carry the legacy of hip hop through this genaration and to the next...
DAMN.
#kungfukenny
The interviewer needs to let him talk
most humble rapper you'll ever see
i love you kendrick
Yo I saw Kendrick interview with Narduwar before he dropped this album, the interviewer showing him an old album that looked like To Pimp’s cover. I wonder why he didn’t mention that it was his inspiration for the cover. He even asked the interviewer if he could take the old album home - he was that fascinated by it
10:10 best fucking rap of King Kendrick! Respect .
Amen! Africa is very diverse and BEAUTIFUL!! He is legit