The racially-charged funky song has been described by Pharrell Williams as 'unapologetically black and AMAZING.'
- March 14, 2015
AceShowbiz -
In anticipation of Kendrick Lamar's "To Pimp a Butterfly", a new cut off the album has surfaced online. Unexpectedly hitting the web on Friday, March 13, the song titled "King Kunta" was once played for Pharrell Williams who described it as "unapologetically black and AMAZING."
On it, Lamar is featured spitting some racially-charged lyrics over the '70s-inspired funky beat. "B***h where were you when I was walkin'/ Now I run the game, got the whole world talkin'/ King Kunta, everybody wanna cut the legs off him/ Kunta black man taking no losses," he raps the chorus.
"King Kunta" is the third track to have surfaced from "To Pimp a Butterfly", following up "The Blacker the Berry" and the Grammy-winning "i".
Now available for pre-order, the album is scheduled to hit the shelves on March 23. "You take a black kid out of Compton and put him in the limelight, and you find answers about yourself you never knew you were searching for," K-Dot has said of his first full-length since 2012's "good kid, m.A.A.d City". "There's some stuff in there, man. It's a roller coaster. It builds."
