Cyrus Langhorne
Top Dawg Entertainment’s Kendrick Lamar is reportedly gearing up to star in an upcoming “Bad Blood” music video for country star Taylor Swift.
Swift broke the big news to fans across her Twitter page Monday (May 11).
https://twitter.com/taylorswift13/status/597755008726110208
A couple months ago, Taylor shouted out Lamar on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/taylorswift13/status/577353751671017472
A few weeks ago, Lamar revealed how much of an impact late music mogul 2Pac had on his To Pimp a Butterfly album title.
“That was the original name and they caught it because the abbreviation was Tupac, Tu-P-A-C,” Lamar said after revealing the project’s original title was “Tu Pimp A Caterpillar.” “Me changing it to Butterfly, I just really wanted to show the brightness of life and the word pimp has so much aggression and that represents several things. For me, it represents using my celebrity for good. Another reason is, not being pimped by the industry through my celebrity.” (MTV)
Recent reports revealed K. Dot stood alone with the first album to topple its competition with “pimp” in the title.
According to Billboard, Kendrick’s latest set is the first album with “pimp” in its title to be No. 1 on the charts. Previously, the highest charting album was Pimp C’s Pimpalation, which landed at No. 3 in 2006. Other albums with “pimp” in its name worth mentioning are Too $hort‘s Shorty the Pimp (No. 6 in 1992), JT Money‘s Pimpin On Wax (No. 28 in 1999) and Dirty’s Keep It Pimp & Gangsta (No. 63 in 2003). (Complex)
I’m going to hold of judgement but initial reaction is why?
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