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Fred Garratt-Stanley

“There's only one person on Earth who could turn a highly conceptual, fiercely political, free-form jazz-rap fusion record into a global hit”: Making Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly

Kendrick lamar.

There's only one person on Earth who could turn a highly conceptual, fiercely political, free-form jazz-rap fusion record into a global hit.

Five Grammy wins, 4x Platinum status, 9.6 million first-day streams (a Spotify record) — the awards and accolades quickly piled up following To Pimp A Butterfly's release on 15 March 2015, and ten years down the line Kendrick Lamar's second studio album is widely considered one of the greatest hip-hop albums of all time.

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