![]() For me, it represents using my celebrity for good. It's a masterpiece no doubt, an artful hybrid of black art, but very little of what is said on this record is shocking and it leans hard on the kind of ideas that white music critics and white rap fans and the white schlockmeisters who run record labels should be accustomed to, thanks to rap's pre-Puff Daddy politicization at least. Lamar decided to replace 'caterpillar' in the original title to 'butterfly', which he explained in an interview for MTV, 'I just really wanted to show the brightness of life and the word 'pimp' has so much aggression and that represents several things. Ignoring Wilson's honky neurosis, which is neither interesting or all that important given the larger discussion at hand, "To Pimp A Butterfly" isn't all that controversial of a record anyway. Its blackness is way too vast." Sadly, Slate's Carl Wilson responded with "How should white listeners approach the 'overwhelming blackness' of Kendrick Lamar's brilliant new album?," shifting the focus from blackness back onto whiteness, taking Hope's title as a threat. ![]() In March, Clover Hope over at Jezebel wrote a piece titled "The Overwhelming Blackness of Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly," and it beautifully asserted the significance of "To Pimp A Butterfly." "This is a special album, and that won't change," Hope wrote, "But I already need a break from it. ![]()
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