It's almost surprising to learn that so much was left off of an album that was so well-contained and clear in its focus, but this is often how geniuses work (more on that later). The dates included in every song title on Kendrick Lamar's 35-minute-long untitled unmastered suggest that pretty much everything here is a remnant from the To Pimp A Butterfly sessions. When it's someone who's time and time again proven himself to be exceptional, his outtakes contain stuff you'd otherwise never hear in hip hop, period. When it's your everyday run-of-the-mill rapper, outtakes might contain stuff you'd otherwise never hear from the artist in question. Whether it's studio banter, unfinished sketches, failed genre experiments, or alternate versions, these tracks are windows into the minds of those who usually give us polished, exhaustively edited final products- unscripted, unfiltered, uncut. Kendrick Lamar delivers a looser, more freewheeling set of tunes on "untitled unmastered."ī-sides, bonus tracks, and outtakes are usually released to show us the sides of artists that we don't get on their standard commercial projects.
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