Its classic Kendricka reductive-yet-sprawling fever-chill of observations on race and the music industry that mixes stereotype with history and wisdom. Now, hes released a handful-and-a-half of song sketches in a project thats neither album nor mixtape (or even EP or LP), and seem to have even less a chance of radio play than TPAB did upon its arrival.īut it feels like an extension of that albums worldan asterisk, perhaps, or an extended coda. TPAB a Grammy-winning ride of densely knotted rhymes, tangled ideas, and deep soundspositioned Kendrick Lamar as a reluctant messiah figure, and its dialogues with self and manifestations of God resisted quick-and-easy unpacking.

Untitled Unmastered Review Full Of Elasticīecause when the promotionally frugal, preeminent thinking-persons rapper of a generation lets forth a largely unexpected collection of demos into a click economy of hot takes and broadcasted enthusiasm, the friction of opposites is enough to spark the kind of hopes that see meaning in everything.

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