The Lost Albums of Kendrick Lamar

Kendrick Lamar is arguably the best rapper of all time. However while Kendrick’s projects have all been streamed millions of times and won countless awards, what about the music that he’s recorded but never released? From his teased collab album with J Cole, his original version of To Pimp a Butterfly, his rumored sequel album to DAMN, as well as a few others... these are the lost albums of Kendrick Lamar.
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[@Eleven_11]

What's your favorite Kendrick album?

[@rapuniverze2998]

unpopular opinion but Mr Morale

[@ryans7003]

good kid mad city🔥

[@altosingh]

Can't really tell, I need to listen to all of them a couple to have a valid opinion, right now it's either DAMN. Or GKMC

[@Shahtheking540]

To Pimp a Butterfly 🔥

[@sflehhehheh2732]

TPAB

[@mattyballz]

kendrick should pull a mac demarco and just drop a 200 song album of throwaways

[@antiid0te]

so true 😭

[@Eleven_11]

lol I agree we need that 🔥

[@mxo.]

untitled unmastered II

[@whoisladon]

Nah I like his albums as a complete body of work

[@tad16]

Mac should make a vinyl,it would sell so much imo

[@jawa7345]

Kendrick is the guy who will make a song/album better than some musicians ENTIRE DISCOGRAPHY and decide: “nah this shit ain’t good enough”

[@CraigTheConqueror]

Real 😂

[@geraltzrivii1268]

@@CraigTheConqueror I'M REAL I'M REAL I'M REALLY REALLY REAL

[@HelloMyNameIsCody]

Real real real so real so real I’m really really teal 😅

[@tamtam21801]

Basically Kanye west

[@v1llianous]

yea considering the times now, we ain’t ever gettin that J Cole album😂

[@shalev441]

actually maybe though

[@romg5731]

I have feeling theres a chance they just forgive each other and make an album Lmao

[@liathompson2332]

Ion know, I think it could still happen

[@louaista]

I still have hope it's one day gonna drop. Kendrick and Cole never lied to us 😭

[@Eleven_11]

I really hope so but I’m losing faith by the day lol

[@DoYouEvenRead]

Dope video! What software do you use to make these?

[@Eleven_11]

@@DoYouEvenRead thanks! Final Cut Pro

[@goldlion9066]

Imagine it’s they last album and they retire on top that would be hella fire

[@DonaldgloverLover]

i dont think it’ll ever happen but i feel like on the fall off whenever that drops there will be a jcole and kendrick song

[@niek4195]

bro i would literally sell a kidney for the kendrick & cole collab

[@bristow4784]

I would literally sell one of your kidneys for it too

[@mariokarter13]

Since it was recorded while Kendrick was with TDE they probably own it. Doesn't stop them from recording a new version now that he's left TDE though.

[@dundee2858]

It’s bad how true this is, same with some of the unreleased wu tang albums. I don’t realllly need all my organs do I😂

[@tinicoleofficial]

Honestly!😩

[@Reikasu]

😅

[@f1sh26]

I think the thing I like about NATION is that it might’ve been like what Kanye was seemingly trying to do with Yandhi where it would’ve been a opposite/sister album to Yeezus. I imagine NATION would’ve been a more up beat album than DAMN and would’ve had rivaling themes. (Like how some of the tracks on DAMN were named after Sins, tracks on NATION could’ve been named after Virtues.)

[@skoogadoo]

that could be cool, but DAMN. already had internal themes of duality with both sins and virtues (LOVE/LUST, HUMBLE/PRIDE, etc.)

[@tinicoleofficial]

I agree

[@tinicoleofficial]

@@skoogadoofacts. Such a dope album💯

[@mitchdewitt1745]

every one thought Nation was actually dropping🤣

[@Nicer_Ricer_JDM]

A few years ago he was supposed to drop an album called “Maad Kid ,Good City”… I actually have about 6 of the songs saved on my Google drive 💯

[@BigOldBagel]

Black Friday was so hyped my cousin and I listened to Kendrick’s version like 20 times in a row

[@s0urp0wer5]

I totally forgot about the whole "Nation" hype after DAMN, thr weekend went by and nothing 😢

[@vvvsnoop]

i don't think cole and kendrick are dropping an album anytime soon

[@officerye9855]

am i trippin or was there the minecraft fall sound at 2:25

[@devzeppilin]

I love the “Nation” album theory. it’s an example of how Kendrick/Reddit fans over analyze his music, which they do often.

[@sw645]

Kendrick takes his time to drop us some gems 🔥

[@LauraMxbby]

GOAT

[@napswhereyouat]

Kendrick estate is crazy

[@tinicoleofficial]

Kendrick & Cole should go on tour together after they drop the project💯

[@blankface_]

Very comprehensive, thank you

[@freddymabetha7946]

i still raise my middle fingure on that JCOLE and KENDRICK's Joint Album

[@landris6078]

he's my goat

[@josephdavid718]

He's our goat bro

[@ElephantLaxatives]

J. Cole collab ain't happenin now

[@Jr-oz8lf]

The Black Panther Soundtrack for sure had songs there that were from or for damn. The sounds listen closely

[@joshuacriddle-eg4fgkok]

Cole grew dreads before releasing the album

[@89him]

D🫥🫓🍽️🥙🌊🤯

[@juantequeno]

Easily spent 2k to go see this man as a bucket list item. Been a fan for over a decade since I was a teenager and now that I have a stable job with good cash flow this was my first big purchase. I heard so much about how he treats his fans (not refunding vinyls that ship months late and are shattered) but I guess I chalked it up to having a bad team. After this, I truly feel he resents his fans. Whether it’s because of fame, anxiety, etc he resents us. Doesn’t resent the money we earn him though

[@wesstewart2677]

If you listen to his last album. He pretty much says he resents himself and has been going through therapy for those resentment issues.

[@Meekmillan]

Felt that entirely dawg. Not being black- I already felt like he held something against us to a degree. And when that clip of him came out where he brings some drunk white girl on stage to rap, knowing damn well there was a ton of N bombs- it just didn’t sit right with me when he stops the show and checks her. Like did you intentionally bait this girl or what? That’s a weirdo move to do to somebody that’s clearly a fan and is actively supporting you.

[@juantequeno]

Wow this comment uploaded under the wrong video on my watch later playlist. It’s supposed to be about Frank Ocean and his Coachella performance 😬

[@nbsluis]

@@juantequeno lmao then delete it bro😹

[@zynel413]

​@@juantequenoi find it hilarious you still got 17 likes 😭 i was confused tho this def makes way more sense about frank, kendrick isnt perfect but i havent heard any issues about his vinyl shipping at the very least

[@chadosado5742]

Compton state of mind tho love that

[@panospilatis6598]

anybody know the name of the instrumental used in 9:49?

[@shalev441]

We might get the j cole kendrick albuk soon

[@YSDJ123]

yo whats the backround track playing from 1:15 playing?

[@garyiii6077]

that vent i liked more jus from that clip

[@DCDon]

That ending 😂on point his whole career damn near a what if atp

[@hatakiri]

thank you for the video. I'm from Russia. And there are few channels in our country that make about Western music. They make about Russian music, which I'm not interested in

[@loganviljoen4458]

I NEED TEMPTATION

[@yaboyegreja7750]

Bro sound like the guy on youtube shorts who asks "is kendrick lamar breedable" 💀💀💀

[@Princess.Shay8]

Wait wheres that found cuz huh 😭

[@Kai_cant]

" 1855 day I've been going through something"

[@CozyJoney]

unreleased kendrick = baby keem

[@MrV8696]

Directors cut. This would be unreleased tracks. That would be perfect

[@OVORICK1]

Dave Freeeeeeeeeee

[@potatoman7475]

I'm Better I'm Better I'm Better

[@xiscaw]

theres too much sound effects bruh its super distracting

[@ABELBUTBETTER]

Oh my god I’m so happy he didn’t make a rock album. Nothing against Kenny of course but having a dude known for being the best rapper ever making a rock album you know that shit would be trash

[@thaidixon3852]

Oh yeah for sure because you definitely have heard it and know what he was planning to do

[@sshiloo]

@@thaidixon3852 don’t meatride, it’s kendrick but we all know he wouldnt sound good on rock

[@prettierjesus3119]

Not full on rock, obviously, but he has a handful of songs where we do see some electric guitar usage, King Kunta being the main one. Would’ve been a bit interesting to see that kind of sound from him, though rapping over rock may come off as feeling “unfinished” to many, when it’s a genre usually accompanied by singing.

[@wildfire9280]

1:21-1:25 was this intentional?

[@Apexapee]

Damn follow up would be really cool The reverse one is oke i guess, but still the same songs

[@justscrollinginthecomments7930]

Song 10:26?

[@RomieTheKid]

One thing ya got wrong, “To Pimp a butterfly” was his second album. Feel like people always mix up projects and forget that even though he’s known for “Section.80” , it’s definitely a mixtape. Good kid was his debut and that’s a fact. Everything else prior was mixtapes that he definitely still slayed 🔥but once he got into album mode.... sheesh we all became super blessed 😭

[@melvinslaughter7685]

Section 80 is an album

[@MMATTHEWWW.0]

tf u talking about section 80 is an album lmao

[@RomieTheKid]

@@MMATTHEWWW.0 def not but iiight 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@MMATTHEWWW.0]

@@RomieTheKid dawg it literally is lmao. it’s literally called his debut album by every source i can find and even the tracklist flows like an album and not a mixtape.

[@RomieTheKid]

@@MMATTHEWWW.0 👍🏽

[@Kappn1]

8

[@chrisyestan4812]

Goofy ass dumbnail Good vid

[@QuasarTheVoyager]

THEY HIDDEN LET ‘EM STAY HIDDEN

[@bent6301]

Cole and Kendrick could solve all the worlds problems simply by dropping their collab

[@innoturtle4692]

Bro didn't listen to Savior

[@ryans7003]

@@innoturtle4692 😂 😂

[@non-expertguy9805]

Bro didn't listen to January 28th

[@Omarr5656]

Bro didn’t listen to Papi home

[@armaan78696]

@@Omarr5656 💀

[@slackstarfish8133]

If Kendrick and Cole ever drop the album, it’ll break the internet

[@Eleven_11]

For real

[@ceasarcruz8312]

by being the wackest, most overrated bullshit in the whole existence

[@Franki8000]

​@@ceasarcruz8312 Yet you still comment and watch the videos just to say the same thing twice

[@conkcreet]

i think one of the songs with jcole might leak soon

[@Franki8000]

@@conkcreet I got info from someone that has contact with some sellers, he said we are going to get a pre-2017 grail, it isn't confirmed but there is a chance.

[@sphakamisozondi]

Whoever leaked, Cartoons and Cereal was a G, and shoutout to Kendrick and TDE for not taking it down 🔥

[@aamia3769]

😂

[@KnightRyder.]

I heard that track was supposed to had been on GKMC but wasn’t cleared cause of a sample.

[@TerryBorderline]

@@KnightRyder. Whoa I always thought that was on the album! Total mandela affect moment!

[@steveballmer4569]

kendrick hasn't missed on an album

[@nsfit2074]

Damn had some misses though and me morale and the big steppers definitely had some misses

[@exotic_blitz7747]

@@nsfit2074 agreed

[@myweirdsecondchannelwithap9070]

@@nsfit2074 but as an album damn was really fucking good. Mr Morale is imo his weakest album to date.

[@nsfit2074]

@@myweirdsecondchannelwithap9070 It definitely was it was rushed and had a lot of filler songs on it you can tell he was really putting in the same amount of effort damn felt like he was trying really hard but it just wasn’t working

[@mNex00]

@@nsfit2074 💀💀☠️

[@rmehu]

Well I don’t think we getting the album with j Cole and Kendrick qnymore

[@matyow.21312]

Agreed

[@Desxire]

Theyre still cool

[@ethansingh45]

Tupac really played a big role in Kendrick’s music

[@alex76ers]

U know about the Tpab title? Nvm he said that shit in the video

[@-Scrapper-]

​@@alex76ers Literally half of mortal man

[@alex76ers]

@@-Scrapper- ?

[@-Scrapper-]

@@alex76ers he has a whole frickin conversation in the album not just the acronym of a once to be name

[@alex76ers]

@@-Scrapper- ? Ur grammar ain’t it ngl

[@T5_]

Still waiting for Ye to drop those 40 songs he did with Kendrick

[@briangallardo5645]

What!?!?! They got 40 songs together?!?

[@alexandergarcia6590]

@@briangallardo5645 yes they do i believe Kanye said it in a interview but don’t remember which one

[@casmithh]

@@briangallardo5645 no, 40 incomplete ones, but some might be completed. they have snippets on yt and on the kanye tracker

[@regirayquaza]

​@@casmithh Also may be Kendrick verses on other Ye tracks such as his verse on Father Stretch My Hands

[@casmithh]

@@regirayquaza true

[@JackSethson]

NATION. is just DAMN. in reverse. that's how it's always been

[@kennysloth6585]

“I lost hard drives” makes me hurt inside

[@samriben329]

Not the bad kid chill city in the thumbnail 😂

[@derealmememan]

And the DANG album cover in the thumbnail💀💀💀

[@flawlesslikeme3674]

the damnation theory was so dumb, but ngl it would’ve been an amazing career move

[@dundee2858]

Ong it’s kinda dumb to expect two albums so close but if it was real then omfg he’d be hands down the goat of conceptual albums

[@flawlesslikeme3674]

@@dundee2858 no because future did a similar thing that same year. dropped an album one week, and surprise album that following week. think it would be cool if more people tried that

[@brucerawlinsjr.2678]

You didn't comprehend the album.

[@potatoman7475]

He won't collab with Cole for a whole album... great artists but I honestly do not see how they would fit together in a whole album.I struggle to imagine it. silent gen-z uncle noises*

[@hurb_eater]

I’d kill to hear all this

[@Dphiddy30522]

It absolutely hurts my heart and soul, hearing about all the unreleased music from artists and knowing there's a strong chance we might NEEEEEEEEEEVERRRRR hear em

[@Octxvius]

You will once they die

[@DontReadDis]

The rock inspired album is the one I wish he would’ve released 😔 I’m not even a rock fan but knowing the energy Kendrick puts into hard hitting beats, I can only imagine he was mad while making that album. Mad at life and the world. Maybe it was a good thing we didn’t get it because of the timing and the pandemic but man I wish he would at least drop a track from it

[@TheBradleyBliss]

Honestly it'd be cool if Kendrick and Dre loosened up a bit and dropped their own versions of "Lost Tapes" we would enjoy it and not try to compare them to a polished album. The J Cole and Kendrick could be released as an EP/Mixtape sort of like the T-Wayne joint

[@zacharyzurcher269]

early ganggggg

[@chavichavz5866]

Cole and Kendrick ain’t gonna happen since the beef 💀

[@bullseye3805]

Yeah i don’t think we’re ever getting that Kendrick j Cole album

[@bent6301]

so Nelson mandela is responsible for TPAB?

[@YourGuyWedge]

As much as the sky is responsible for starry night. So yes and also very much no

[@prettierjesus3119]

Did you not pay attention to Mortal Man? He’s name dropped like 20 times on it.

[@Sladepool]

Imagine for the Kendrick X Cole collab album they remixed Family Ties with both going off over the first beat 🔥🔥🔥

[@GrandNoble]

The kendrick/ cole album definitely never dropping now lol

[@ArmandoVerdugo8]

The black Friday track they mentioned February but they were talking about the dreamville album. Revenge of the dreamers 2 dropped that month. Also the second album that sounwav was referring too after damn was playing damn backwards with Duckworth as the first track. "The red pill and blue pill"

[@barsonlyIMPROVE]

A collab album with j cole would be insane

[@napswhereyouat]

That shit probably in a vault

[@barsonlyIMPROVE]

@@napswhereyouat it would probably be biggest album of that year and most beautiful

[@elchaugexd2754]

How funny would it be, if Cole and Kendrick dropped it now?

[@Fiskket]

after the beef 😅

[@edwardobeng8042]

yh we never getting that kendrick and j cole album now

[@RyanTaylor-wr8gx]

came up on my feed a year later, that j cole x kendrick shits definitely not happening now

[@travistreadway3180]

They cool fr still

[@srteo0]

i feel kendrick. like, i really do. every damn time i'm trying to do something and succeeding in it, i still have a feeling of guilt, a burden that stays with me for the next couple of days because i did it imperfectly, even if i outperformed myself. all my life i wanted to be the best in everything, and that thing kinda kills me from the inside, eats me like some kind of a worm or a parasite. i'm putting my focus and priorities on a lot of different things, instead of just focusing on one. why the fuck have i just written a whole ass essay at 12pm wtf

[@MegaRamp]

Anti Weed Propaganda before the video Lol I just came for kendrick. Stupid Ad. Yikes, looks like I’m not the only one. Starting to think the “We don’t control ads” thing is bs.

[@__Babaaaa]

The amount of times I’ve played the snippets of ‘ Temptation ‘ and ‘ Shock The World ‘ is crazy….

[@OVORICK1]

Jcole Drake and Kendrick album

[@shamanic_nostalgia]

hot take: most of Kendrick's unreleased music gets released by Baby Keem. Before that, I think he was responsible for most of Schoolboy Q and Jay Rock's albums. TDE was basically a cast of different artists for Kendrick to release music under. When the artists available no longer matched the new music he was creating, he left TDE and started PgLang with Keem.

[@roid1510]

Stop disrespecting other artists like that. TDE is a cast of amazing artists. Baby keem is his own artist with one of the greatest rappers as a mentor.

[@felipetorres5772]

To this day I still wish he put cartoons & cereal on a album

[@lukezurcher5942]

🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@Zzzunknown.]

He's just to creative

[@prettierjesus3119]

I’m a bit curious about most of his mixtapes before Overly Dedicated and that had been floating around up to his GKMC days. Most of his mixtapes besides OD and Untitled Unmastered are rarely talked about, besides C4 for its “Bitch, I’m In The Club”, which is apparently considered his worst song by many people. He apparently has one called “Compton State Of Mind”, but I’ve only seen it get brought up twice. I think someone uploaded the whole thing to KZbin. But, with all of this talk about Kendrick being super popular, a perfectionist, and “the best to ever do it”, you’d think more people would be talking about these projects. Are they really just that bad that people decided to forget about most of it?

[@skoogadoo]

they're all okay with a few highlights, but it's obvious that he hadn't come into his own yet so a lot of his stuff back then was just very plain

[@dkmrap1]

Kendrick talking Schoolboy outta 3 different albums is trash to me because the others versions were probably better

[@randommtbridr]

Bruh, youngboy is terrible 😭

[@RoddyRodbb]

2 Pimp a Caterpillar=2pac

[@banmba]

you deserve 200x views this is so good

[@Eleven_11]

Thanks for watching!

[@devenlott1573]

Does anyone know what the music is called at 0:58

[@gmxn.ae2024]

Dubstep

[@mattmckee2139]

No but it’s 🔥

[@BackseatGM]

Poopity scoop scoop de poop scoop poopy scoop

[@andymayeuxproductions]

Kendrick is the best artist I have ever seen perform live

[@sonictrain1]

If crash talk was the result of 3 scrapped albums, then them butches were actually dog water

[@ozdiamond5741]

Love Kendrick. Love the video. U earned a sub

[@Eleven_11]

Yo thank you!

[@brockjensen2473]

I would do anything to get my hands on his hard drives

[@ryans7003]

ya who tf is Bill Werde 😂

[@DaHomies_]

What his “reincarnated” snippet was the opening to the damn follow up and he’ll actually release it 😂

[@cl4mz]

kendrick & cole collab would give me a heart attack

[@aim__freakz8499]

bruh this some bs. there's so many more interesting ft's. who cares about two similar artitst if u could have dot+peggy or hommy. like anything but two super mainstream artists who hardly do anything different

[@cl4mz]

@@aim__freakz8499 & you’re one of the weirdos who thinks mainstream = bad.. nobody cares about the music made on bandlab and then uploaded to soundcloud 😂😂 get a lifee

[@clm5888]

Bro needs to make a sequel to uu and release prayer

[@exotic_blitz7747]

this was 16*29 before 16*29 was 16*29

[@Jordann323]

Can you do ye next please

[@Franki8000]

While you wait for that video because it would take some time: -Early versions of TCD with songs such as Hey Mama, 18 Years (Gold Digger), Heavy Hitters, Apologise, Ni**as Gossip, Wack Ni**as and Drop Dead, despite being released the album changed a lot. -Good Ass Job 2008, it evolved into 808's and Heartbreak. -Winter Spring Summer Fall, in a 2008 french interview Kanye stated his next album would be titled Winter Spring Summer Fall and it will be splitted in 4 sections with 3 songs per season. -Good Ass Job 2009, it evolved into My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. -Thank God For Drugs, evolved into Yeezus -Yeezus II and Lost Yeezus EP, turned into SHMG. -So Help Me God (and Chiraq but that title/project lasted less than 1 week), turned into Swish. -Swish, wich would evolve into Waves and finally become The Life Of Pablo -TurboGrafx16, scrapped album with videogame sample and trap influences -Wolves, collab album with Drake scrapped in 2017 after the beef started with Lift Yourself an later Daytona. -Cruel Winter, G.O.O.D Music album, sequel of Cruel Summer that got scrapped. -Love Everyone (or that name with Hit), scrapped after the rant on TMZ and it evolved into Ye with a lot of changes in the subject, mainly going into mental health rather than a rant at everything like the songs DJ Khaled Son or Cops Shot The Kid made at the time. -Watch The Throne 2, nothing is known about it except the fact that Ye announced it on Twitter. -Good Ass Job 2018/2019, collab album with Chance The Rapper scrapped around 2019 iirc -Yandhi, we all know about this one so I'll say it evolved slowly into Jesus Is King. -Jesus Is King II, remix album produced by Dr. Dre using the songs of the original album, including Aftermath artists like Eminem and Anderson .Paak. -God's Country, earliest Donda version, evolved into Donda: With Child and finally just Donda -Donda 3 (aka 8AM), thank God this never happened, it started back in january 2022 because Kanye wanted a Donda trilogy but he went with the whole wlm stuff and forgot about Donda 3, still may release but I doubt it. -WAR, collab album with no I.D. and James Blake, scrapped last year after Ye's comments.