But it feels like an extension of that album's world-an asterisk, perhaps, or an extended coda.
Now, he’s released a handful-and-a-half of song sketches in a project that's neither album nor mixtape (or even EP or LP), and seem to have even less a chance of radio play than TPAB did upon its arrival. TPAB-a Grammy-winning ride of densely knotted rhymes, tangled ideas, and deep sounds-positioned Kendrick Lamar as a reluctant messiah figure, and its dialogues with self and manifestations of God resisted quick-and-easy unpacking. The song he's jokingly creating on the back end of "untitled 07" shows up earlieras "untitled 04," and its refrain is "head is the answer/head is the future"-which may or may not be a multiple-entendreabout life and spirituality.No other rapper has taken up so much real estate in the past 12 months while releasing so little music and sharing as little about themselves as Kendrick. The compilation album received widespread acclaim from critics, and it debuted atop the US Billboard 200.
It consists of previously unreleased demos that originated during the recording of Lamar's album To Pimp a Butterfly (2015), continuing that work's exploration of politically-charged and philosophical themes, as well as its experimentation with free jazz, soul, avant-garde music, and funk styles. It was released on March 4, 2016, by Top Dawg Entertainment, Aftermath Entertainment and Interscope Records. Untitled Unmastered (stylized as untitled unmastered.) is a compilation album by American rapper Kendrick Lamar. He's crying for his bosses-both Top Dawg and God-while lamenting urban addiction and dysfunction, and contemplating mortality. His vocal tics and morphs have long been technologically-aided affairs, but on "untitled 02" he's full of elastic long tails-partially gleeful Lil Wayne, wholly sanctifying choir sinner. One of the most enchanting things about this project is hearing how Kendrick manipulates his own voice before the studio modulations kick in.
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