“For me, that’s when the album really started.” Whether it was to broaden his worldview or perhaps better understand Nelson Mandela’s fight to end apartheid, the trip was nonetheless significant for Lamar and ultimately helped fuel the freewheeling creative process for what would eventually become one of hip-hop’s most exalted albums in recent history. “I remember he took a trip to Africa and something in his mind just clicked,” collaborator and producer Sounwav says. Frankly, no one truly knows why Kendrick Lamar embarked on an impromptu trip to South Africa in between the success of 2012’s good kid, m.A.A.d city and the recording of To Pimp a Butterfly.
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