

But it feels like an extension of that album's world-an asterisk, perhaps, or an extended coda. Now, he’s released a handful-and-a-half of song sketches in a project that's neither album nor mixtape (or even EP or LP), and seem to have even less a chance of radio play than TPAB did upon its arrival. TPAB-a Grammy-winning ride of densely knotted rhymes, tangled ideas, and deep sounds-positioned Kendrick Lamar as a reluctant messiah figure, and its dialogues with self and manifestations of God resisted quick-and-easy unpacking. No other rapper has taken up so much real estate in the past 12 months while releasing so little music and sharing as little about themselves as Kendrick.
