Artist: Kendrick Lamar
Album: Untitled Unmastered.
Label: Top Dawg Entertainment
iTunes: https://itun.es/untitledunmastered
Earlier tonight, reports surfaced that the Top Dawg Entertainment surprise project this week could be a Kendrick Lamar effort. This was in response to Spotify prematurely going live with information for the Compton rapper’s untitled unmastered project, which features dated tracks that didn’t make the final cut for his 2015 sophomore album, To Pimp A Butterfly. After LeBron James begged Top Dawg to release the official version of his single “untitled,” this prompted the camp to come up with an idea for the fans and put together a project of K. Dot tracks from the vault.
If you remember, he premiered unreleased material at both The Late Show and The Tonight Show; which are now titled “untitled 03 | 05.28.2013.” and “untitled 08 | 09.06.2014” – respectively.
In a GRAMMYs interview, he explained the recorded tracks from 2013-16 saying, “I got a chamber of material from the album that I was in love with where sample clearances or something as simple as a deadline kept it off the album”. With no features, the most talked about track is “untitled 07 | 2014 – 2016,” which is produced by Swizz Beatz and Alica Keys’ 5-year-old son, Egypt.
Listen to untitled unmastered. by Kendrick Lamar on @AppleMusic.