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Butterfly Flow: Tupac, Kendrick Lamar, And The Resurrection Of New Black Godz

6 mins | May 18, 2018

Is contemporary rapper Kendrick Lamar continuing Tupac Shakur’s legacy as a hip hop saviour? Monica Miller, writing in JSTOR Daily, takes a look at the mythic themes in Kendrick Lamar’s 2015 number 1 album, 'To Pimp a Butterfly'.

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