Kendrick Lamar Talks Music Direction for ‘To Pimp a Butterfly’ Follow-Up Album

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New K. Dot album later this year?

Although Kendrick Lamar shared his untitled unmastered. project in 2016, it’s been almost two full years since he’s dropped a full-length album. With TDE gearing up for project roll-outs from both SZA and ScHoolboy Q, the good kid is slowly building attention to his next project.

Today, the Los Angles rapper is featured in the new issue of T Magazine for The New York Times, and gives first details for his To Pimp a Butterfly follow up album – rumored to release later this year.

In comparison to addressing political issues, like he did with Alright, Lamar plans to bring notice to the biggest elephant in any room, GOD. We’re assuming his extremely-aggressive take on social issues will also slow down, as Lamar will likely have of his most personal records to date.

Take a look at Kendrick briefly teasing plans for the project and its musical tone.

King K. Dot on the direction of the new album.

“I think now, how wayward things have gone within the past few months, my focus is ultimately going back to my community and the other communities around the world where they’re doing the groundwork. ‘To Pimp a Butterfly’ was addressing the problem. I’m in a space now where I’m not addressing the problem anymore. We’re in a time where we exclude one major component out of this whole thing called life: God. Nobody speaks on it because it’s almost in conflict with what’s going on in the world when you talk about politics and government and the system.”

“This is what goes on in my mind as a writer. One day, I may have a little girl. And it’s a girl in particular — funny you said that. She’s gonna grow up. She’s gonna be a child I adore, I’m gonna always love her, but she’s gonna reach that one point where she’s gonna start experiencing things. And she’s gonna say things or do things that you may not condone, but it’s the reality of it and you know she was always gonna get to that place. And it’s disturbing.”

“But you have to accept it. You have to accept it and you have to have your own solutions to figure out how to handle the action and take action for it. When I say ‘the little girl,’ it’s the analogy of accepting the moment when she grows up. We love women, we enjoy their company. At one point in time I may have a little girl who grows up and tells me about her engagements with a male figure — things that most men don’t want to hear.”

“Learning to accept it, and not run away from it, that’s how I want this album to feel.”

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