Q 01/05

Which late rapper does Kendrick Lamar appear to interview at the very end of To Pimp a Butterfly?

A) Biggie Smalls

B) Big Pun

C) Tupac Shakur

D) Nate Dogg

Answer · why

C) Tupac Shakur

Tupac Shakur answers Lamar's questions through audio lifted from a 1994 radio interview, taped only weeks before he was shot. His mother and stepbroth...

Q 02/05

Which politician called How Much a Dollar Cost, from To Pimp a Butterfly, the best song of 2015?

A) Barack Obama

B) Joe Biden

C) Bernie Sanders

D) Cory Booker

Answer · why

A) Barack Obama

Barack Obama picked the album's parable about a beggar over every hit of the year while he was still in office. Lamar later joined his 2016 Independen...

Q 03/05

Which rock legend's final album, released in 2016, was influenced by Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly?

A) Leonard Cohen

B) Lou Reed

C) Tom Petty

D) David Bowie

Answer · why

D) David Bowie

David Bowie and his producer Tony Visconti listened to a lot of Lamar while making Blackstar, admiring that the rapper had refused to make a straight ...

Q 04/05

Which pop star's album beat Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly to Album of the Year at the 2016 Grammys?

A) Bruno Mars

B) Taylor Swift

C) Ariana Grande

D) Ed Sheeran

Answer · why

B) Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift won with 1989, though Lamar left with five trophies, more than anyone else that night. He had arrived with the most nominations too.

Q 05/05

Which song from To Pimp a Butterfly had its chorus chanted by marchers at Black Lives Matter protests?

A) King Kunta

B) Hood Politics

C) Alright

D) Complexion

Answer · why

C) Alright

Alright was taken up at youth-led marches against police brutality, and several magazines called it the movement's unifying soundtrack. Lamar describe...