Seems the early release also came as a surprise for some of Lamar's inner sanctum. Anthony Tiffith, the CEO of Top Dawg Entertainment, which represents Lamar, was less than impressed. He tweeted. "I WOULD LIKE 2 PERSONALLY THANK @Interscope FOR FUCKING UP OUR RELEASE... SOMEBODY GOTS 2 PAY 4 THIS MISTAKE !!!! #TOP"

this is the kraziest shit ever

i will deal with bs later.... lets focus on the album.....TO PIMP A BUTTERFLY

Kendrick Lamar is off to a fast start with his surprise early release, To Pimp a Butterfly, and it should give the artist his first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart next week. Industry sources are forecasting the set to move over 325,000 equivalent album units in the week ending March 22.

The physical version of the album seems to be in stock at most major brick and mortar retailers. (As of March 18, Target doesn't appear to be selling the title, however, a representative for the company says the album will be available in stores and online soon.)

n December 2014, prior to the release of his third album To Pimp a Butterfly (2015), Lamar performed an unreleased, untitled track as a musical guest on the The Colbert Report. In January 2016, he performed another untitled song on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.[4] Following his acclaimed performance at the 2016's Grammy Awards, which included aspects of another new untitled track, Lamar revealed the existence of a collection of tracks that did not make it onto Butterfly: "I got a chamber of material from the album that I was in love [with] where sample clearances or something as simple as a deadline kept it off the album."[4]

Following hints of a new release from Lamar's label Top Dawg Entertainment, and allegedly aided by NBA player LeBron James's public request to TDE head Anthony Tiffith that Lamar's untitled work be released,[5] untitled unmastered first surfaced on Spotify on March 3, containing eight untitled tracks but without an apparent release date.[6][7] The project was officially released on the iTunes Store on March 3, 2016. It spans 34 minutes and features eight untitled tracks, each dated. These dates indicate that the songs were written and recorded at various points between 2013 and 2016.[8] Later that day, Lamar confirmed that the tracks were unfinished demos from To Pimp a Butterfly.[9] In an interview with Spin, vocalist Anna Wise, while recalling the demos that appear on untitled unmastered, claims she knew of the compilation album's existence for an undisclosed amount of time, and was asked to keep it a secret until its release.[10] untitled unmastered was released to digital retailers and streaming services on March 4. The physical CD release of its explicit edition will follow on March 11, while an edited version is due out March 18.

DAMN. That’s the name of the new Kendrick Lamar album out this Friday. Kendrick took to Twitter early this morning to share the cover art, which you can see above, and the tracklist, which is copied below. In addition to the U2 feature we suspected — intriguingly, on a track called “XXX.” — Rihanna is featured on a song called “LOYALTY