![]() ![]() ![]() More than the police or the many other institutions that hold up racial inequality, Kendrick spits venom at himself. That’s not how I want to pimp this butterfly.īut this album is best understood as an internal dialogue sparked by today’s racial landscape, unique among other works broaching the same topics. This isn’t to take sides in what has a passing resemblance to a Martin/Malcolm duality. As “The Blacker the Berry” reveals, the fist gives way to more pain. ![]() Run the Jewels is the fist Kendrick is the mind.Īs happens too often, the mind comes after the fist. With that, this album has a counterpart in last year’s Run the Jewels 2. It’s disingenuous to think about To Pimp a Butterfly outside the context of the series of events and conversations that escalated, although didn’t begin, with the shooting of Michael Brown.
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