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.”
“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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TPAB and Special Effects, two of the best albums out so far this year.
lose the “of the” and you’re right on point. Sucks Tech doesn’t get the credit he deserves, but fuck DX reviews anyways
True, true. But I said “two of the best” because there were other incredible albums that dropped this year, like Tetsuo & Youth, B4.Da.$$, Sour Soul and Love Story. It’s been a good year so far.
t&y miles ahead of everything else… Can’t listen to it twice and think you understood it, takes at least 20 front to back and 20 back to front
It’s because of Rappers like Lamar that hip hop world is still alive.Otherwise with the likes of Kanye West ,hip hop would be full of shit.Lamar is the king of New York.Fuck off,other East hip-hop rappers.God bless Kendrick.
Jay-Z is still the king of east coast rap. He goes platinum everytime he drops an album and is a trailblazer for hiphop. Kendrick just raps. Thats it. If he died tomorrow he would be a blip in hiphop history. If jay-z died tomorrow he would go on the mount rushmore of hip hop.
woah wtf of all rappers you pick Kanye to talk shit about? The most innovative rapper of this generation? The guy who has (at MINIMUM) 3 certified classic albums?
Seriously, who we don’t want hip-hop’s fate to left to are the talentless hacks out there like Rae Sremmurd, Wiz Khalifa, Meek Mill, Iggy Azalea, etc. Kanye is just as important as Kendrick.
Kendrick is from Compton, not New York.
This guy musta been referring to tha beef Lamar had with other New York Rappers when one fine day,he declared himself tha king.No doubt he is from Compton.
i think he meant Gil Scott, not Jil.