


Elsewhere, there have been some takes connecting the surprise release of untitled unmastered. But while that perspective honored his genius, it ignored King Kendrick’s intentionality. Originally released on March 4th 2016, we revisit Adam Kivel’s classic review of these incredibly powerful tracks that weren’t to be.īack when he was just dropping these untitled songs on TV performances, one narrative held that Kendrick Lamar reigned so supremely that he could just let these sublime tracks lift into the ether without putting them on an album. Editor’s Note: Kendrick Lamar fans were still dissecting and analyzing his masterpiece, To Pimp a Butterfly, from the year before when the rapper released a compilation of unfinished demos that never made it onto that album.
