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


