Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly is due on March 23rd and before that, he will grace the cover of Rolling Stone as you can see above. During the interview, he calls the police “the biggest gang in California”, Sounwave speaks on ‘King Kunta’ and more.
Lamar is vague about what specifically the title To Pimp a Butterfly means (“That will be taught in college courses someday,” he says). But he describes the album as “honest, fearful and unapologetic.” “You take a black kid out of Compton and put him in the limelight, and you find answers about yourself you never knew you were searching for,” he said. “There’s some stuff in there, man. It’s a roller coaster. It builds.”
Below you can see another image from the shoot and a short behind the scenes video.
UPDATE: Scans of the full interview are now available. Hit the jump to read.
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