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Untitled 1, with its Book of Revelations imagery (вЂњplanes falling out the sky, trains fallinвЂ™ off the trackвЂќ) finds Kendrick reproachfully addressing the boss upstairs: вЂњI tithed for you, pushed the club to the side for you, who love you like I love you?вЂќ There are gnomic hints of Old Testament wrath amidst the cauldron of conflicted feelings Kendrick ventriloquises. Now subject to the financial pressures of the mainstream, Kendrick must resist the orders to compromise his art.Д«ut then thereвЂ™s KendrickвЂ™s true master. On Untitled 3,В Kendrick describes the antagonistic process of doing business with the exploitative вЂњwhite manвЂќ вЂ“ вЂњput a price on my talent, I hit the bank and withdrawвЂќ. With Kendrick, everything is calculated, and untitled, unmastered.вЂ™s un-title can be trusted to carry atВ leastВ a double meaning. T.I.Jay Z once ruefully eyed hip-hopвЂ™s conscious/commercial divide by rapping: вЂњTruthfully, I wanna rhyme like Common Sense / But I did five mill and ainвЂ™t rapped like Common since.вЂќВ This conflict continues to dominate the discourse about rap lyricism,В but over the last few years, Kendrick Lamar has been proving that you can bridge that divide.Дespite his weird voice, his weirder voices, his oblique lyrics and baroque song-structures, вЂKing KendrickвЂ™ has sold millions, won Grammys, and managed to (to paraphrase Buzzfeed, probably) вЂbreak the internetвЂ™ simply by releasing a collection of вЂuntitledвЂ™ off-cuts from last yearвЂ™s universally lauded and largely anti-commercial album To Pimp a Butterfly.

He won four other awards, including rap performance and rap song.Д¬ompton mayor celebrates Kendrick LamarвЂ™s Grammys - and disses DrakeДЎ0 essential artists who helped Kendrick Lamar shape his Grammy-nominated вЂTo Pimp a ButterflyвЂ™

The rapper was awarded the televised ceremonyвЂ™s first prize, rap album, which the 28-year-old artist accepted onstage. Lamar was the most nominated artist of the evening with 11 nods, but despite his albumвЂ™s daring approach of breaking rap conventions and universal acclaim, it lost the nightвЂ™s biggest honor - album of the year - to Taylor Swift.

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вЂњUntitled UnmasteredвЂќ arrives weeks after LamarвЂ™s riveting, emotionally charged performance at the 58th Grammy Awards, where he rapped about police brutality and the shooting of Trayvon Martin in the most politically minded performance of the night - a medley of вЂњButterflyвЂќ tracks вЂњThe Blacker the BerryвЂќ and вЂњAlright,вЂќ as well as the latest entry in his вЂњUntitledвЂќ series of verses.

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The possible Spotify mishap felt like a nod to the surprise release of вЂњTo Pimp a Butterfly,вЂќ which was dropped a full week before its scheduled date in March (although the release initially appeared to be an accidental leak, major-label distributor Interscope later confirmed that the early drop was indeed intentional).

But I think probably close to 10 songs that IвЂ™m in love with that IвЂ™ll still play and still perform that didnвЂ™t make the cut.вЂќ вЂњI got a chamber of material from the album that I was in love where sample clearances or something as simple as a deadline kept it off the album. вЂњYou see all these performances on these late-night shows,вЂќ he said. In an interview with hip-hop site 2 Dope Boyz, the rapper said the untitled tracks heвЂ™s been performing on television are records that couldnвЂ™t make the album for whatever reason.

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