kendrick lamar untitled unmastered soundcloud

Certain lines (like a response to a diss from the talented but disengaged Jay Electronica on “untitled |2014-2016”) put timestamps on the album that show he went back to make sure it all threaded together. But they are, by and large, fully formed. None of Lamar’s new songs have names, just “untitled” and the date they were presumably recorded, mostly 2014. But they were (and still are) a click away. They were mumbling unmixed skeletons of unfinished ideas and unpolished soundscapes.

Just last week, a bundle of unfinished songs from the recording sessions for Kanye West’s on-the-fly release “The Life of Pablo” surfaced on the Web. What the Internet wants, the Internet gets. The album’s eventual appearance was both inconspicuous and attention-grabbing, like a black suitcase left in the middle of an airport terminal. Earlier this week he said he’d drop a surprise project from one of the roster’s artists. Top Dawg teased at TDE’s 2016 release schedule. The demand on social media for Lamar’s label head, Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith, to issue an EP of all the unreleased songs grew so loud that even NBA star LeBron James couldn’t keep himself out of Tiffith’s mentions. that I’m in love with that I’ll still play and still perform that didn’t make the cut.”Īnd then, people stopped wanting moments and started wanting music. Lamar revealed to hip-hop hub 2DopeBoys that he had “a chamber of material from the album.

But the tipping point was Lamar’s gripping performance at the Grammys last month, which ended with an unheard verse set to dream-sequence horns and keys, and steeped in social commentary. There the songs could’ve stayed, like the decades of music Prince, according to lore, has stashed away in a bank vault. He laughed and told her, “For my ears and my iPhone.” The show’s host Angela Yee asked, “So what happens with those?”

Kendrick lamar untitled unmastered soundcloud