28-04-2015 17:14 via feeds.theguardian.com

Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly: panel verdict

Just over a month after its release, we asked five critics to digest it and give their verdict on why it’s been one of the standout moments of the yearOn To Pimp a Butterfly, Kendrick Lamar is the darkest brother. On The Blacker The Berry he’s a figure of black manhood, loving and fighting men in the streets, but where are the women? Are we not out there killing and loving, too? Between sew-ins and shopping sprees? It’s almost painful to listen to the interlude For Free?, its two ghetto-fa
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