Quick Verdict To Pimp a Butterfly arrived on March 15, 2015, and immediately made most other rap albums released that decade sound like they were playing in a smaller room. Kendrick Lamar's third studio album is a 79-minute sprawl through jazz, funk, soul, spoken word, and hip-hop, built around one of the most ambitious lyrical conceits in the genre's history: a sustained meditation on Black identity, institutional oppression, celebrity, depression, self-destruction, and sp