Since To Pimp A Butterfly, Lamar has dropped snippets of new music in recent TV performances, specifically on a December 2014 appearance on The Colbert Report, a January 2016 slot on Fallon, and at last month’s Grammy Awards. His Colbert and Fallon songs appear here, titled ‘untitled 3’ and ‘untitled 8’ respectively. Some of untitled unmastered. might be familiar to fans. All tracks are untitled, but are dated to suggest when they were written and recorded, spanning from 2013 to 2016. Guests include CeeLo Green, Anna Wise, Jay Rock and TDE boss Punch. Listen to it below.Įight tracks and 34 minutes long, the release appears to delve into the “chamber” of unreleased music the rapper revealed in an interview earlier this month he’d been waiting to unveil. Thundercat said in a recent interview with Billboard, he wrote the song.The album features a beat by Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys’s five-year-old son.Ī surprise new Kendrick Lamar album, untitled unmastered., has dropped, less than a year after his acclaimed To Pimp A Butterfly. Originally performed as “Untitled 2” or “Blue Faces” on The Tonight Show on January 7, 2016. Part III is a glimpse of the jam sessions that Kendrick would have with Thundercat that would be the skeleton of certain songs for To Pimp A Butterfly. Whether or not he’s sending Jay Electronica a subliminal is still up for interpretation. In an interview with Complex, Sounwave revealed that Swizz Beatz sent Kendrick Lamar all the footage from his son producing and K Dot was floored. Part 2 produced by Swizz Beatz and Egypt Dean
Part 1 produced by Cardo, Frank Dukes and Yung Exclusive Produced by Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad Untitled 07 You can hear parts of the first verse from this track at the end of Kendrick Lamar’s outstanding 2016 GRAMMY performance, which aired February 15, 2016. Produced by Terrace Martin, Sounwave, Thundercat and Nard & B The reference for this track appears on Part III of “untitled 7,” with Kendrick Lamar freestyling a verse as a guitar plays, using lines that ended on the album version. Apparently, Terrace Martin said it was brought to the show the day before because Kendrick Lamar did not want to perform “i,” but if you look at the date, it is the oldest track out of the batch on the album. Was performed on the final episode of The Colbert Report on December 16, 2014. Produced by Cardo, Yung Exclusive, Thundercat and Terrace Martin Untitled 03įeatures Anna Wise, Terrace Martin, Thundercat There’s a good possibility some of these laid down in the booth for the sophomore album but ultimately didn’t fit the theme (or cleared samples), so were left off the final cut.Īlso, where is the song from the beginning of the “Alright” video? (Sounwave says it might still come out at some point, maybe on his project).Ĭheck out some of the credits from the album thus far, which boasts features from the likes of Jay Rock, Hit-Boy, DJ Spinz, Anna Wise, Thundercat, Punch, Cardo, Terrace Martin, DJ Khalil, Cee-Lo Green, SZA, Sounwave, Adrian Younge, Frank Dukes and more.
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As we can see, a bulk of dates are after the debut was released on October 12, 2012, plus they’re being promoted as To Pimp A Butterfly demos, before the sophomore effort impacted on March 15, 2015. There were definitely some usual suspects on there, but others were a surprise.įor example, Swizz Beatz 5-year old son Egypt Dean is on the second part of “untitled 7,” not the hard ass beat that Cardo, Frank Dukes and Yung Exclusive set the track off with.ĭetails like the dates on the tracks (we’re guessing that’s when the songs were first recorded) have not yet been confirmed, but the timeline all happens after good kid m.A.A.d city. From various tweets and people throwing out vague confirmations, we started piecing some of the collaborators on K Dot’s album. The result happens to be untitled unmastered., which everyone has been trying to listen to since it was released last night.Ĭonsidering we got very little information on it to begin with (even down to the track titles), we started looking for clues about the effort last night when we were listening.
We got half of a day to process the news that Kendrick Lamar would be dropping a surprise project, even though Top Dawg hinted at something coming as soon as Friday. RELATED: Stream Kendrick Lamar’s untitled unmastered.
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