If you don't know how big of a Kendrick Lamar fan I am by now, then you haven't been following this blog very long. (Catch up here and here. No excuses now.) So when I get a TIDAL notification on March 4th at 1:24 a.m. saying, "New music from Kendrick Lamar. Listen now," my immediate reaction was, "Wait a minute...is this another instance where I'm the last to know about something?!?! How come no one told me of this momentous occasion until this very moment?!?!" Then I thought, "'Listen now'??? Uhhhh duhhhhh...of course I'm gonna listen now! What else would I be doing at 1:24 in the morning except playing Madden, watching Knight Rider reruns or, I don't know, actually sleeping?!?!" So after seeing a few Facebook posts from people who were baited into doing the same thing, I listened to what were clearly the songs that didn't make Lamar's critically-acclaimed, Grammy-award-winning album, To Pimp a Butterfly (2015) and guess what? I didn't eeeeeem care. This was still new music to me and, more important, new Kendrick Lamar music. So it wouldn't be true to my integrity as an avid music lover if I let a week go by without sharing my two cents about untitled unmastered. in this "2-for-1 Tuesday Special"--giving you all an "In Heavy Rotation" special edition as well as my "Rave & Favorite Five" post for the week. (I know...I'm so generous...I shouldn't have.) Let's get at it, kiddies...
