Listen: Kendrick Lamar Throws Funky-Weird Fire on ‘King Kunta’

March 14, 2015

Kendrick Lamar‘s hotly anticipated upcoming album, To Pimp a Butterfly, is starting to drip, with a funky new leak called “King Kunta” showing a robust growth on wax. It’s the best new track we’ve heard since his “Untitled” performance on Colbert a few months back.

The third song to surface from Lamar’s follow-up to 2012’s already-classic good kid, m.A.A.d city is crazy strong, a glorious lyrical ride with nods to Michael Jackson and his own domination of the Compton rap scene. This one’s got legs – check it out below.

Pre-order To Pimp a Butterfly, which is out on March 23, through iTunes.

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