Fight, art, complexity: Kendrick Lamar's masterpiece of self-empowerment

With To Pimp a Butterfly, Kendrick Lamar created a monumental work in 2015 that reaches far beyond hip-hop - a powerful exploration of identity, racism, trauma and resistance. Musically, the album fuses jazz, funk, soul and spoken word into a complex, multi-layered soundscape that is as experimental as it is political. Songs such as "Alright", "The Blacker the Berry" and "u" reflect Lamar's inner conflict and the collective reality of the Black experience in the USA. It is an album full of anger, hope and self-reflection - intellectually challenging, emotionally raw. To Pimp a Butterfly is not only a milestone in hip-hop, but a manifesto of our time.