To Pimp a Butterfly

good kid, m.A.A.d city made him the most respected rapper alive, and instead of a sequel he booked the best jazz and funk players in Los Angeles. Thundercat, Kamasi Washington, Robert Glasper, and George Clinton all play on it. The songs are about what happens after you make it out: guilt about the friends still in Compton, the pull of money, depression in a hotel room. Between tracks he reads a poem that grows a few lines longer each time, until the last song reveals who he has been reading it to.