Shortly after, Kendrick himself tweeted a link to purchase the album and Tiffith confirmed its authenticity on Instagram with a note reading, “Thank Lebron James for this.” He’s referring to LeBron’s post-Grammys tweet to Kendrick and Tiffith begging that Kendrick’s untitled songs be released, a request Tiffith told LeBron he’d think about. appeared on Spotify and iTunes on Thursday night, in a manner not unlike the surprise-release of TPAB. With only that warning, eight new Kendrick songs under the name untitled unmastered. It cud be 2nite So don’t ask me jus stay close to the net.” (Kendrick retweeted that post, sly one that he is.) Ive decided 2 drop a project 1 day this week. Further keeping fans on their toes, on Wednesday Tiffith took to his Instagram to say that one of those new projects would be released at random this week: “Just 2 show niggas I’m not playing. Dot, suggesting a new project might be imminent. In January 2016, he then debuted “Untitled 2” on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, having never formally released the first “Untitled.” During his scathing Grammys performance last month, Kendrick also rapped a new verse that some have labeled “Untitled 3.”Įarlier this week, Top Dawg Entertainment CEO Anthony Tiffith announced his label’s 2016 slate, teasing new releases from the entire roster - including Kendrick, with “? (get Top on the phone)” next to his nickname, K. In a sense, Kendrick has been teasing this project since December 2014, when he debuted the first “Untitled” on The Colbert Report, as the show’s final musical guest. and do we really have LeBron James to thank? Let’s take a look at the album’s backstory. How did we finally get untitled unmastered.

That all changed when Kendrick dropped an unannounced new project out of the skies and onto Spotify last night, an eight-song treasure trove of untitled (and apparently unmastered), previously unreleased songs - including the Colbert and Fallon one-offs - less than a year after Butterfly. When Lamar pulled the same stunt earlier this year on Fallon, it felt like we’d all been fooled twice - once again teased with new music that would likely never materialize in any official capacity. Dot vault would soon become rap’s worst-kept secret. This was before the release of his sophomore opus To Pimp a Butterfly, and the assumption at the time was that the untitled track would appear on that album. Back in 2014, Kendrick Lamar bid The Colbert Report farewell with the debut of a thunderous new untitled song.

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