Kendrick Lamar begins his latest album,To Pimp A Butterfly, with a statement.
Although it wasn’t Kendrick Lamar’s voice saying the phrase, To Pimp A Butterfly’s opening track, “Wesley’s Theory,” begins with the sound of a vinyl record playing “Every Nigger Is a Star.”
The song playing was recorded by Jamaican artist Boris Gardiner.
After hearing Gardiner’s feature on Kendrick’s latest offering, Boomshots profiled the “old-school Jamaican legend.”
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The song the phrase was drawn from is titled “Every Nigger Is a Star,” the title track of the soundtrack for a Jamaican blaxploitation film of the same name. Gardiner’s song has spawned multiple reggae renditions, including one by Big Youth.
According to the website blaxploitationpride, the Every Nigger Is a Star movie aimed at “turning the word Nigger on its head for the black population of Jamaica in the ’70s.”
Gardiner is credited on Lamar’s album for “Wesley’s Theory” alongside George Clinton, Thundercat, Sounwave, Flying Lotus and Lamar.
Listen to the original track below:
“Wesley’s Theory”:
Recent Boris Gardiner interview:
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