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Dissect

S1E1 – Compton, K Dot, and Kendrick Lamar

Dissect

Cole Cuchna

Music, Arts, Society & Culture

4.910.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2016

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

We begin our season-long examination of Kendrick Lamar‘s To Pimp a Butterfly with the history of Compton, California and Kendrick’s transformation from K Dot, a young mixtape rapper, to Kendrick Lamar, a true artist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:30.0

Welcome to Dissect. Long form musical Analysis broken into short digestible episodes.

0:35.3

I'm your host Cole Kishna. Our first season of Dissect is dedicated entirely to Kendrick Lamar's 2015 masterpiece to Pippa Butterfly. Over the course of nearly 20 episodes,

0:56.0

we're going to dive deep into this incredibly rich record. We'll break down both the

1:00.4

musical and lyrical content while also analyzing the album's overall narrative arc.

1:05.1

There's a lot to unpack on this record. From the thematically rich narrative of the album's opening track Wesley's

1:10.7

series. track Wesley's theory. To the striking introspection and Gather your way take the deep look inside

1:25.0

Are you really who they are lies

1:27.0

To pimp for butterfly?

1:30.0

To the striking introspection and honesty of you.

1:32.6

And you're the reason why mama and I'm leaving.

1:35.4

No you're in shit.

1:36.4

You say you love them.

1:37.4

I know you don't mean it.

1:38.9

I know you're responsible selfish.

1:40.9

You deny your can't open your trying to triple nations of burden everyone felt it.

1:46.0

To the complexities of race, class, and identity on Blacker the Berry.

1:50.0

I'm the biggest hypocrite in 2015.

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