To Pimp A Butterfly
by Kendrick Lamar
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To Pimp A Butterfly is ranked as the best album by Kendrick Lamar.
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To Pimp A Butterfly track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 89 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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To Pimp A Butterfly rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 4 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | cicadelic | The Telegraph The best albums of 2015 | 5/31 | - |
| 2026 | AgainstMeAgainstYou | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 3/100 | 92 |
| 2026 |  covecove | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 23/100 | 77 |
| 2026 |  viquel | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 36/100 | 64 |
| 2026 |  Skinny | Top 99 Music Albums of 2015 | 5/99 | 5 |
| 2026 | Vasco | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 83/100 | 18 |
| 2026 | stanchoiaz | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 25/100 | 15 |
| 2026 | Rm12398 | Top 29 Music Albums of 2015 | 4/29 | 4 |
| 2026 | DJStuart79 | Top 86 Music Albums of 2015 | 1/86 | 5 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | MusicServer Dvacet nejlepších zahraničních alb za rok 2015 | 9/20 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 1,938 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 29,101 | |||
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To Pimp A Butterfly ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 3 days ago | JoshN125 | 87 | 66/100 |
| ! | 08/18/2026 08:12 |  nextorgd | 1,221 | 84/100 |
| ! | 08/17/2026 10:38 | TitoVampir | 197 | 76/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 89.2/100, a mean average of 86.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 89.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 19.8.
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Forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 09/01/2026 16:00 in Monthly overall chart movements BestEverAlbums 08/30/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5420): By Chris15789 BestEverAlbums 08/28/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5418): By baystateoftheartTo Pimp A Butterfly comments
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I suppose you could call this an okay-ish/passable quasi-funky quasi-jazzy hip hop album that you can put on in the background but #1 of its decade and #20 of all times? I do not hear it. There are so many underrated jazz, rock, pop and rap artists that nobody has heard or will ever hear because of stuff like this that was literally tailor made to be 'hip' and appeal to the masses and their idle and fake sense of morality. I mean just think about how truly honest can this album's core message really be when it was co written and made by legions and legions of hip industry producers? Any 'realness' it could have contained gets drowned and averaged about by the fact that this was primarily made to be a big and commercial album. It's really neither provocative nor profound lyrics wise nor original or exciting music wise and its importance is so fakely inflated that even the few good moments it has become lamer adter the fact. As for Mr. Lamar himself, he has a fine flow and his rhyme schemes are beyond average but the timbre of his voice was always a really weak point of his and makes this all the less enjoyable than it could've been. I also myself am not impressed by complicated syllables in rapping as it's basically the hip hop equvalent of a prog band wanking on the guitar to show off i.e. If it does not add to the music it might as well be useless. Overall I never was impressed by this, I don't know, maybe I am in the wrong, but I tend to feel that if 90% of the populace likes your product, you're either doing something very wrong or something very average.
AAL2014 08/09/2025 14:22 | #310490
@solunastra.. tell me you don’t understand the meanings of melody and harmony without saying you don’t understand the meanings of melody and harmony. (Edited)
Worst album of 2015... absolutely overrated: no melody, no harmony, dirty lyrics... rap is not music! (Edited)
His second best album after Good Kid. (Edited)
Shortlisted for album of the year at the 2016 Grammys. The winner was 1989 by Taylor Swift (Edited)
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