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Welcome to Dissect, Long Form Musical analysis broken into short digestible episodes.

I'm your host Cole Kushna. Today we continue our serialized examination of Tupipipa Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar.

In our last episode, we dissected institutionalized, a song that saw Kendrick beginning to

deal with the forces of his new life of stardom.

He grew frustrated with his competent friend's behavior at the BET Awards,

and could not fully grasp that their actions were in part due to the institutionalized mindset

bred in a place like Compton.

Kendrick's experiences with his new reality continue on the album's next track, These Walls.

If those schools can talk and

I can build a rain when it cries.

Gold lives inside of it. The wall can't talk to the

the wall. These walls continue Act 2 of Topippa Butterfly, which we've titled,

cocooned. On these walls, Kendrick will address various metaphoric walls that could

him in his new life of fame and influence. The song is produced by

Terrace Martin and Lawrence Dobson, and features a full band performing

original music without samples. The song begins with the

continuation of the narrative poem that was introduced at the end of King Kunta.

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