To Pimp a Butterfly

Put the tracks on Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly back in their album running order. You place all 16 cards in the right order, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.

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Put the tracks on Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly back in their album running order. Drag or tap it onto the line
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How to play the To Pimp a Butterfly track order game

To Pimp a Butterfly is the deck, its tracks shuffled, and you rebuild Kendrick Lamar's running order. You begin with one track on the line, track number showing. Each card you draw shows a title and nothing else. Pick a gap; get it right and the number is revealed, get it wrong and the track still goes to its true spot while you lose one of three lives.

Steeped in jazz, funk, soul and spoken word, the album is dense and ambitious, held together by a poem he recites a little more of as the record goes on. Interludes sit among the full songs. The jazz-heavy album cuts can feel interchangeable, so leaning on the singles alone won't get you far. Think about the story's arc, from temptation to self-acceptance.

What's in the deck

Here are 16 of the 16 cards you might be dealt. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Wesley's Theory (feat. George Clinton & Thundercat)
  • For Free? (Interlude)
  • King Kunta
  • Institutionalized (feat. Bilal, Anna Wise & Snoop Dogg)
  • These Walls (feat. Bilal, Anna Wise & Thundercat)
  • u
  • Alright
  • For Sale? (Interlude)
  • Momma
  • Hood Politics
  • How Much a Dollar Cost (feat. James Fauntleroy & Ronald Isley)
  • Complexion (A Zulu Love) [feat. Rapsody]
  • The Blacker the Berry
  • You Ain't Gotta Lie (Momma Said)
  • i
  • Mortal Man

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