Kendrick Lamar will perform his critically acclaimed artist album To Pimp A Butterfly next month with the National Symphony Orchestra. The special performance will occur at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C on Oct. 20.
This will be special for Kendrick Lamar fans who have been waiting for the rapper to perform all of the songs on the album at a show. During his summer tour, K.Dot performed mostly tracks from good kid m.A.A.d city and left fans wanting when it came to the new album tracks. In a recent performance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, he performed a medley of the thought-provoking album.
Now he will bring that to a new live venue, the Kennedy Center, normally reserved for orchestras, operas and the occasional singer. It will be the first time he has ever performed with an orchestra and at the venue.
While this collaboration may seem a little out of the ordinary, NSO has a brief history of working with rappers. Last year the Orchestra performed with Nas for a twentieth celebration of his album seminal album Illmatic.
Normally the orchestra looks to work with long-time veterans of music, but this time they were looking for someone who brought fresh blood and was more cutting edge.
"We were interested in finding somebody who was avant-guard," says NSO artistic administrator Justin Ellis of their interesting in Lamar to the Washingtonian. "Someone that had a lot to say musically."
Though few details are being divulged about the artistic direction of the show, Ellis does admit there will be a few surprises.
"The music that you're going to hear is going to be a cross section of things that he has done-and things you probably haven't heard him do live."
Tickets are on sale now for members and will go on sale for non-members tomorrow, Sept. 30 at 10 a.m.
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