But the most satisfying moments arrive in “King Kunta,” where the narrator balances between bragging on his rap mastery, some artfully displaced castration anxiety, and a simmering resentment that goes beyond all the topics of the song. Certainly you could trace a complicated narrative, a symbolic web through To Pimp a Butterfly, cueing off the poem Lamar recites line by line between tracks. Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)Īnger becomes Kendrick Lamar it’s an urgent anger, and it makes his CD beautiful.Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window).
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