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Untitled Unmastered (stylized as untitled unmastered.) is an album by American rapper Kendrick Lamar. It was released on March 3, 2016 through Top Dawg, Aftermath, and Interscope, and consists of previously unreleased demos that originated during the recording of Lamar's third album, To Pimp a Butterfly (2015).

Contents 1 Background and release 2 Music and recording 3 Lyrics and themes 4 Track listing 4.1 Notes 5 References

Background and release

In December 2014, prior to the release of his third album To Pimp a Butterfly (2015), Lamar performed an unreleased, untitled track as a musical guest on the The Colbert Report, and in January 2016 he performed another untitled song on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.[2] Following his acclaimed performance at the 2016 Grammy Awards, which included aspects of another new untitled track, Lamar revealed the existence of a collection of tracks that did not make it onto Butterfly: "I got a chamber of material from the album that I was in love [with] where sample clearances or something as simple as a deadline kept it off the album."[2]

Following hints of a new release from Lamar's label Top Dawg Entertainment, and allegedly aided by NBA player LeBron James's public request to TDE head Anthony Tiffith that Lamar's untitled work be released,[3] untitled unmastered. first surfaced on Spotify on March 3, containing eight untitled tracks but without an apparent release date.[4][5] The project was officially released on the iTunes Store on March 3, 2016. It spans 34 minutes and features eight untitled tracks, each dated. These dates indicate that the songs were written and recorded at various points between 2013 and 2016.[6] Later that day, Lamar confirmed that the tracks were unfinished demos from To Pimp A Butterfly.[7]
Music and recording

The Guardian described the album as "filled with the free jazz, funk, politically charged lyrics and experimental sounds that made To Pimp a Butterfly such an instant classic," and noted that the track titles seemingly indicate that they were recorded between 2013 and 2014 with the exception of "untitled 07 | 2014 - 2016".[3] Fuse TV described the album's tracks: "they have no official titles, have fascinating imperfections, and represent Kendrick in his rawest form while shedding insight into his creative development over the last three to four years."[8] Comparing the unusual nature of the album's presentation to that of Kanye West's The Life of Pablo (2016), The Independent's Christopher Hooton wrote that: 'I don't think we should consider this a Kendrick Lamar album in the same way we do Good Kid Maad City [sic], TPAB etc, but it definitely feels more formal and considered than a mixtape [...] the whole thing still feels cohesive.'[9]

The songs performed during Lamar's appearances on The Colbert Report and The Tonight Show were both included on untitled unmastered. in their studio incarnations, now called "untitled 03 | 05.28.2013." and "untitled 08 | 09.06.2014.", respectively. The latter was previously known as "Untitled 2". Previously, part of Lamar's "untitled 08" verse had been used for remixes of Funkadelic's "Ain't That Funkin Kinda Hard on You". Swizz Beatz has said that his and Alicia Keys' 5-year-old son Egypt produced "untitled 07". TDE producer Sounwave has confirmed on Twitter that Egypt produced the second half of the track. "untitled 06 | 06.30.2014" features uncredited vocals from American singer CeeLo Green,[11] produced by both Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad of A Tribe Called Quest.

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