To Pimp a Butterfly is Kendrick Lamar's third studio album and originally appeared in 2015. Lamar let go of tight West Coast production and built the album on live playing: Thundercat's bass, Kamasi Washington's saxophone, P-Funk from George Clinton, and production by Sounwave, Flying Lotus, and Terrace Martin. The lyrics work through fame, guilt, depression, and Black identity in America, carried by a poem that grows across the tracks and turns, in the closing piece Mortal Man, into an imagined conversation with Tupac Shakur. Away from the album, Alright became a rallying song at Black Lives Matter protests. It won the Grammy for Best Rap Album in 2016 and sits at number 19 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

This edition is a 2-LP, an anniversary edition.