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Album: Untitled Unmastered (2016)
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  • The shortest song on Untitled Unmastered, this features SZA and Jay Rock (under his Lance Skiiiwalker alter-ego) trading moody lines advocating free-thinking and education while Kendrick Lamar urges them on with feverish whispers. Jazz musician and frequent collaborator Terrace Martin told Complex: "That was done around the same week we did 'For Free?.' I don't know why that didn't make it onto the original album. My only memory of that song is that we were eating heavy ramen, drinking organic vodka and 60-year-old cognac. We were on our low-key, dim candles-type s--t."
  • The opening line: "They say the government mislead the youth, youth, youth, youth" is repeated in a different way on Part III of "untitled 07 | 2014-2016" when Lamar raps: "They say the government ain't he truth, truth, truth, truth. And the politicians always mislead the youth, youth, youth, youth."
  • The first part of the album's title was inspired by another music legend. Top Dawg Entertainment Co-President Terrence "Punch" Henderson told Billboard magazine: "As far as Untitled, me and Kendrick always talked about doing a sort of Black Album, like how Prince did back in the day. There was no album cover, no song titles, no anything - just tracks he threw out."

    The second part of the project's name relates to the fact that the eight tracks are unfinished demos.

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