{"id":1536,"date":"2016-03-07T20:14:20","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T20:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/?p=1536"},"modified":"2016-03-07T20:14:20","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T20:14:20","slug":"untitled-unmastered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/untitled-unmastered\/","title":{"rendered":"Untitled Unmastered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/kendrick-lamar-8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1537\" src=\"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/kendrick-lamar-8-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"kendrick lamar 8\" width=\"350\" height=\"197\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Author: Amy Nicole<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Last week Kendrick Lamar dropped an unannounced album called \u201cUntitled Unmastered\u201d. \u00a0The album features 8 untitled tracks showing the dates the songs were recorded. The tracks on the 35 minute album are all live recordings.<\/p>\n<p>I recently had a chance to listen to the album and it sounds like an extension of Lamar\u2019s last project \u201cTo Pimp A Butterfly\u201d. \u00a0Like most of Kendrick\u2019s music you have to listen to the songs more than once to grasp the underlining message behind the lyrics. \u00a0The album features Lamar rapping over up-tempo instrumentals with subtle elements of jazz. He covers topics like political corruption, religion, self-awareness, and spirituality, and he briefly touches on the black lives matter movement.<\/p>\n<p>Overall <em>Untitled Unmastered<\/em> is consistent with Lamar\u2019s metaphoric artistic sound and is definitely worth the listen.<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/news\/the-trials-of-kendrick-lamar-inside-the-new-issue-20150311\">Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author: Amy Nicole Last week Kendrick Lamar dropped an unannounced album called \u201cUntitled Unmastered\u201d. \u00a0The album features 8 untitled tracks showing the dates the songs were recorded. The tracks on the 35 minute album are all live recordings. I recently had a chance to listen to the album and it sounds like an extension of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/untitled-unmastered\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Untitled Unmastered&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[111,290,295,392,409,411,417,429,455,497],"class_list":["post-1536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-black-lives-matter","tag-kendrick-lamar-hip-hop","tag-king-kendrick","tag-political-corruption","tag-rap","tag-rapper","tag-religion","tag-self-awareness","tag-spirituality","tag-untitled-unmastered"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}