We hear him strain and yell and whisper his way through his own evolution. In that song and others, we get a direct line into Kendrick Lamar's experimentation with using his voice as an instrument.

One of the more forward-thinking tracks is called 'Untitled 07': It feels and sounds like Lamar is shaking off flakes of the old him and growing a new skin by the minute. The project shows us demos within demos, with parts of one song appearing on another song - sometimes recorded years apart.

We're listening to Lamar's past in the present here. 'Untitled 03,' the song from his Colbert appearance, was recorded more than a year and a half before he performed it. He performed one song on The Tonight Show just this January, part of another on the Grammys even more recently, and another on the Colbert Report in 2014. Up until now, Lamar had only given a few hints that this music existed.

Officially deemed a collection of 'demos,' the raw tracks are nameless and featureless, identified only by the date they were presumably recorded. With his new album untitled unmastered., Lamar and his label Top Dawg Entertainment offer us a look at the steps it took to get to his fully formed magnum opus - 2015's To Pimp A Butterfly - and show us that they can stop the world when they feel like it. And then Kendrick Lamar fucked up my night with this untitled unmastered album. Late Thursday evening, Kendrick Lamar crept back into our lives like a thief in the night. The sessions for Lamar's 2015 album, 'To Pimp a Butterfly,' yielded these demos, and. Music Interviews Kendrick Lamar: 'I Can't Change The World Until I Change Myself First' Similarly, 'Untitled, Unmastered' is presented as an unfinished work, though it rarely sounds like one.

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