To Pimp A Butterfly Analysis

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To Pimp a Butterfly: An Autopsy Kendrick Lamar’s album to pimp a butterfly so the complexity of the artist. To pimp a butterfly is in no way an oval telling a story much like a novel Kendrick intends for the audience to listen to it from beginning to end. Kendrick Lamar’s first album good kid mad city was a critical and commercial success that skyrocketed the rappers career into superstardom. Lamar’s second album to pimp a butterfly is more intense more bizarre more profound and more controversial. In fact to pimp a butterfly may be one of the most complex albums in rap history. Each song is characterized by its own distinctive concept and on a larger scale all the songs are interconnected buy a wider narrative that revolves around Kendrick’s becoming a celebrity in the system owned by Uncle Sam and rode by the evils of Lucy (personification of Lucifer). In this essay I will analyze how effective to pimp a butterfly is and explain the true meaning behind Hedrick Lamar’s powerful album. It all begins with Wesley's theory a bizarre song that introduces the overarching theme of the album the pimping of …show more content…

The line "I'll Wesley Snipe your ass before thirty-five" concurrently refers to the two ways the system have been known to shut down a public figure. Financially as they did to Wesley Snipes convicted of tax evasion and through literal sniping or assassination. In For Free? (Interlude), Kendrick repeats the mantra "this dick ain't free" in response to a girls materialistic demands. This ideology is extended to Uncle Sam himself, where Kendrick states he refuses to be exploited by the system, that is, without adequate compensation. The same way prostitutes tell themselves "this pussy ain't free" before being pimped, Kendrick has put a price on himself. Followed by King Kunta, Kendrick is celebrating dominating the rap game

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