Tech N9ne shared his thoughts on Kendrick Lamar’s latest album, To Pimp A Butterfly, during a recent episode of Montreality’s “Phone Tap.”
Over the phone, Tech praises TPAB, calling it “lyrical, poetic, jazzy” and “wonderful.”
“I think it’s totally Kendrick,” Tech says. “I think he has the freedom to do whatever he wanted to do and he did him and him is a beautiful thing. It’s cohesive throughout the whole album with the poetry throughout. It’s Jill Scott. It’s George Clinton. It’s Musiq the Soulchild. It’s Hip Hop. It’s wonderful. It’s gangsta. It’s contradictory. It’s everything. It’s human.”
Tech was especially fond of the interview with Tupac Shakur at the end of “Mortal Man.”
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“The interview with ‘Pac took me over the top at the end, had me off the edge of my seat,” he says.
The two first met when Kendrick was serving as a hype-man for Jay Rock. Tech signed Jay Rock to his Strange Music imprint and invited him on tour, Kendrick came along with him. Tech and K.Dot later collaborated on “I Love Music” off Tech’s All 6’s and 7’s album and again on “Fragile” off Tech’s Something Else project.
“I love to see my brother doing what he wants to do and not what other people want him to do,” Tech says of Kendrick. “I’m sure people were expecting something like the first album…This time he just said I’m doing music, and as an artist that’s what you’re supposed to do and I think that’s what he did.”
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