Kendrick Lamar Return to The Breakfast Club.
For the promo run of his Latest Album “To Pimp A Butterfly,” Kendrick Lamar Returns to The Breakfast Club (Angela Yee, DJ Envy & Charlamagne Tha God) where He Discusses the Early Release of the Album, Interview With Tupac, Share his thoughts on Few tracks off the LP. Kendrick Also enlight Social Issues which makes his Music looks like a ‘Statement’ & Also confirms that He’s Engaged with his longtime girlfriend Whitney Alford. check out the Interview Session below. Added another Interview Session With Dish Nation where Kendrick talks about Taylor Swift, Tupac & More about his Album.
He claims that he was unable to attend the Grammy Awards in 2015 due to a schedule difficulty. He also claims that he didn’t expect to win a Grammy since “he doesn’t anticipate anything, he simply puts out music.” Kendrick also discusses accepting social responsibility for his music, how he obtained the Tupac interview that was used on his album, and how he never imagined he would be one of today’s top rappers.
“They dropped the clean version, and the crazy part about it is,” says Kendrick on the early drop of TBAP. “we knew that the iTunes leak was going to be down for a minute once they did that because it’s a certain system that they put in at the labels. The date was actually confusing, locked it in and locked it off so the fans was trippin’. I’m sure [Top Dawg] seen it on his Twitter and went crazy.”
On choosing “i” as the first single, “The inspiration behind it was really talking to some of the older cats in the neighborhood and really doing something out of the norm, speaking some type of positivity back in the city rather than doing what we used to doing, period. From the initial concept of the record, I always said it was for some of my homeboys back on the yard and also the community. It was therapeutic for myself, you know, ’cause sometimes we wake up and not feel the same way we felt yesterday. So that was the initial mind state.”
He also talked about dealing with depression. “[It was] not the industry, just the change. You know, it’s a drastic change when your around so many different faces, faces that you don’t quite understand and meeting people while things are going on back home that’s out of your control to handle. You can take some [people] with you, but they’re still stuff that goes on. I still got family in Compton. I can’t put $1 million dollars in they pocket and say, ‘You on now.’ All I can do is put them in positions where they can fend for themselves. But sometimes, the lifestyle that they in, they might not know how to handle it. They might not know how to handle some type of working world where they’ve never been in. All they know is the streets.”
“He never told me that,” Kendrick on J. Cole trying to sign him. “I think by the time I met him, he wanted to get his label off ground. He was already signed and doing his thing. I was still independent. But that’s a good eye for talent.”
On being asked about a joint project with Cole, he says, “It’s always just a schedule issue. Once we get around that… That’s my boy I talk to on the regular. We do [have music recorded it just a matter of putting it together] and also going back in and continuing to work. Them songs are so old, we both grown as artists [since].”
He cites a scheduling difficulty as the reason he was unable to attend the Grammy Awards in 2015. He adds that he “doesn’t anticipate nothing, he simply puts songs out,” therefore he didn’t even expect to win a Grammy.
In addition, Kendrick discusses how he obtained the Tupac conversation that was used in his album and how he never imagined he would become one of the most well-known rappers of the present day.
