Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly

Breaking the global record for streams in a single day, nearly 10 million people around the world tuned in to hear Kendrick Lamar''s sophomore album in the hours after its release. To Pimp a Butterfly was widely hailed as an instant classic, garnering laudatory album reviews, many awards, and even a canonized place in Harvard''s W. E. B. Du Bois archive. Why did this strangely compelling record st...