It’s never been clearer than throughout untitled unmastered. ”, he laments what being Kendrick Lamar has cost him, wrapping his lithe words (squeaked slightly with mania) around Yung Exclusive and Cardo’s anxiety-ridden production: “So many plays on me I finesse / Palisade views with some sex / I lost a lot of love for missionary / This the first time I confess.” Being on top, the rudderless sexual grind, above all for doing anything regularly-none of this he has much interest for anymore. Which is why here, on album highlight “untitled 02 |. It meant many things, but mostly it meant that Lamar was confident and deft enough at making music which risked exposing his personal failures to scrutiny: he may be a powerful voice, but he was more than weak enough to indulge in, and become tainted by, the gross spoils of his position at the top, whether luxury, fame, whatever. of every last drop of meaning, because of that volatility-the literal way in which Lamar seems to live and breathe the act of changing, both as a force of good and of nature.įor all of its contradictions and endless tangents, To Pimp a Butterfly was accurate. And they will audiences will wring untitled unmastered. "I know for sure who you are/ You're the goddess of the odd" he says, before resigning, "I am yours.And then it simply-as simply as the most respected, volatile voice in rap could have it be- existed, labelled only in time stamps and Xs on treasure maps, leaving the audience to figure out where in time-space Kendrick Lamar meant this new album to fall. In the end, Lamar reassures his love interest that none of those misgivings matter. Themes of duality in general pervade the song the chorus, sung by CeeLo, sees lines like "Both sides of me are evenly odd" and "Am I mortal man or make believe?"ĭuality is also demonstrated in the song's structure toward the end of the song, focus on Kendrick's insecurities shifts to the perceived insecurity that his love interest might have of her humble upbringing. "Look how you think that my mystique is a round of applause." "Look at my flaws, look at my flaws/ Look at my imperfections and all," Kendrick says in his second verse. The song can be interpreted as Lamar, the suitor pleading with a love interest while reconciling his insecurities. The reference to Lamar being a Gemini, born on June 17, is salient as the song focuses on personality traits that seemingly compete against one another.
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