“The tallest building plummets, cracking, and crumbling/ The ground is shaking, swallowing young woman/ With a baby, daisies, and other flowers burning in destruction/ The smell is disgusting, the heat is unbearable,” Kendrick spits. “untitled 01” is a four-minute track with a three-minute verse it’s the best rapping we’ve seen from Kendrick since his “Control” verse. The creative imagery of these eight untitled tracks is violent and foreboding to match the music that comes along with it. The dystopia described in this latest release is terrifying. Kendrick’s newest project, untitled unmastered., seems like the epilogue to that conversation. It a genuinely frightening and shockingly poignant statement Tupac gave that response in 1995, and the recent tragedies involving Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, Sandra Bland, Mike Brown, and so much more make it seem like Tupac was a genuine visionary. “Next time there’s a riot, there’s gonna be bloodshed.” He paints a dystopian future of interracial fighting, referencing the Nat Turner riots of the 1830s. At one point, Kendrick asks, “What do you think is the future for me and my generation?” Tupac responds gravely. On “Mortal Man”, the closing track to last year’s hip-hop masterpiece To Pimp A Butterfly, Kendrick Lamar conducts an interview with the late Tupac Shakur on the state of black life in America.
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