KENDRICK PUSHES THE ENVELOPE WITH UNTITLED, UNMASTERED

Top Dawg Entertainment came through on their promise that something crazy special was dropping this week. Kendrick Lamar revealed a surprise project late Thursday night he calls untitled, unmastered.

The set boasts eight tracks of deep Kendrick cuts, some with the unmistakable spirit of his opus To Pimp a Butterfly firmly intact. The songs are all listed as "untitled" with a corresponding date to each, which range between 2013 and 2016.

Kendrick's been performing new songs on every TV appearance he's made in the last few years, debuting material as the last musical guest on The Colbert Report in 2014, on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in January as well as that powerful Grammy performance last month. Those records are all part of this offering.

Lamar even hinted at this treasure trove in an interview before the Grammys.

"You see all these performances on these late-night shows,” he said, “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. But I think probably close to 10 songs that I’m in love with that I’ll still play and still perform didn’t make the cut.”

untitled, unmastered will be digital only for at least one week. All DSPs and streaming services have it, with the physical out by 3/11 via TDE/Aftermath/Interscope.