How Jazz Saved Hip-Hop Again
May, 2016
The story of two South Los Angeles music scenes and Kendrick Lamar's genre-bending album To Pimp a Butterfly Nothing more influential than rap music I merge jazz fusion with the trap music I mix black soul with some rock and roll They never box me in. — kendrick lamar, "black friday" These lines, taken from a freestyle that Comp- ton artist Kendrick Lamar released in late November 2015, land between a riff about what the White House would be like if Kanye West took over and a slick co...
