To Pimp a Butterfly received universal critical acclaim upon release, much like its predecessor, and had global charting success, debuting at number one on the overall albums charts in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, as well as topping the US Billboard 200. The album was preceded by two singles, " i" and " The Blacker the Berry", which charted at numbers 39 and 66 on the US Billboard Hot 100, respectively. On March 16, 2015, Lamar released his third studio album, To Pimp a Butterfly. The album received universal critical acclaim and reached number two on the Billboard 200. Good Kid, M.A.A.D City was released in October 2012, through TDE, Aftermath Entertainment and Interscope Records. " Swimming Pools (Drank)", the album's lead single, peaked at number 17 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and became his first top 20 hit on the chart. The album's first single, " The Recipe", peaked at number 38 on the US Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. In mid-2012, Lamar began promoting his second studio album and major label debut, Good Kid, M.A.A.D City. The album's lead single, " HiiiPoWeR", was released prior to the album through iTunes. It peaked at number 113 on the US Billboard 200 chart. Lamar's debut studio album Section.80, was released on July 2, 2011, and issued on independent record label Top Dawg Entertainment (TDE). It was Lamar's first full-length project to be released under his birth name and fared well enough to enter the United States Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, where it peaked at number 72.
He gained major attention after the release of his fourth mixtape Overly Dedicated, which was released in 2010. (Hub City Threat: Minor of the Year) (2004), Training Day (2005), and C4 (2009).
Lamar initially performed under the stage name K-Dot, releasing three mixtapes under that moniker: Y.H.N.I.C. and urges listeners to “build your own pyramids, write your own hieroglyphs.” Upon the album's release, some listeners thought this stuff was too radical for Lamar to ever fully break into the mainstream but the maverick was on the threshold of something even bigger.American rapper Kendrick Lamar has released four studio albums, one compilation album, one extended play (EP), five mixtapes, 65 singles (including 44 as a featured artist), three promotional singles, and 55 music videos. Ultimately, though, Section.80 channels that unrest into a quest for enlightenment on the knocking “HiiiPower,” Lamar conjures visions of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“You know why we crack babies? Because we born in the ’80s,” Lamar spits on lead single “A.D.H.D.,” a generational study as sharp as it is catchy. The title itself combines Section 8 housing, the low-income developments in which Lamar was raised, with the decade of Lamar’s birth he thus fashioned himself an ambassador for a generation raised under Ronald Reagan and the crack epidemic.
Over jazzy beats suited for contemplative spells, Lamar raps like he’s searching, bar by bar, for answers to America’s biggest questions, turning a critical eye on his own reality and the systems that reinforce it. Los Angeles hip-hop needed a new hero, and Lamar stepped up to the plate.īut Section.80 was far from a bid for mainstream attention. rap around the time Lamar was forming his Black Hippy super-group (alongside Jay Rock, Ab-Soul, and ScHoolboy Q) was the jerkin’ movement, a fun but frivolous dance craze. Los Angeles’ old guard of gangsta rap greats was waning the hottest trend in L.A. Dre, he was barely out of the shadow of his Top Dawg Entertainment labelmate Jay Rock, on whose tour Lamar still regularly served as hype-man. The rapper formerly known as K-Dot had built a buzz prior to his 2011 breakthrough album, but the Compton native still had everything to prove: In spite of a coveted co-sign from Dr.
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