Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly, released in 2015, stands as one of the most groundbreaking (and controversial) albums in modern hip-hop. Blending jazz, funk, and soul with sharp political ...

JAY-Z encouraged Punch to move forward with To Pimp a Butterfly despite concerns about fan reaction. The conversation gave TDE leadership confidence to support Kendrick Lamar’s creative direction. The ...

Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. In light of the uncertain future of the John F. Kennedy Center for the ...

After a backlash from Kendrick's label TDE, the anticipated album has been taken off the Internet. Early today, the album (both the clean and explicit versions) were available for sale on iTunes.

In an interview with Elsie not Elise, Top Dawg Entertainment’s president, Terrence "Punch" Henderson, said that Jay-Z was happy when he was told that To Pimp a Butterfly could “piss off” Kendrick ...

Kendrick Lamar Duckworth was born in Compton, California, in 1987, and was still a baby when his hometown became synonymous with gangsta rap with the 1989 release of N.W.A’s Straight Outta Compton. So ...

Kendrick Lamar's label is reportedly pissed over the early release. Interscope, the music label which Kendrick's label TDE operates under is apparently responsible for the early release. Executives of ...