Kendrick Lamar, Dissenting From the Mainstream as He Influences It

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🗓️ 27 March 2015

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Discussing the rapper’s new album, “To Pimp A Butterfly.”

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0:00.0	Hello, and
0:05.0	welcome to the New York Times, pop cast your Cleaglight of Fame.
0:08.0	I'm your host, John Caramonica.
0:10.0	I'm the biggest n of CRIN in 2015.
0:13.0	Once I finished this witness, this will conveyions what I mean.
0:16.0	Been feeling this way since I was 16 came to my senses.
0:19.0	You never like this anyway.
0:20.0	Your friendship, I meant it.
0:21.0	I'm African American. I'm African. I'm African American I'm African I'm blackest the moon heritage of a small village part in my residence
0:26.9	came from the bottom of mankind my hair is nappy my
0:30.3	It's big my nose is round and wide you hate me don, don't you? You hate my people. You've just been listening to The Black or the Berry, which is from
0:36.8	Kendrick Lamar's second major label album, To Pimp A Butterfly. And I'm sitting here with Joe Koskerelli.
0:44.5	Hello.
0:45.2	We're gonna be talking a little bit about Kendrick today.
0:47.6	Joe spent some time with him a couple weeks ago.
0:50.6	We're gonna talk about that, and then I wrote about the album a little bit after that and
0:56.1	Kendrick is at a very interesting moment right now.
0:58.9	Joe, talk to me a little bit about the sort of setup in which you were spending time with him, kind of like what your top line read on his demeanor and mode was.
1:09.0	Sure, so the album had been announced only a week before that it was going to come out on March 23rd, which ended up being...
1:18.0	Not false.
1:20.0	False. Even release dates are fake release dates these days.
1:23.4	It's great.
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