Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly has officially broken today's internet, and with the vast narratives of subtext, symbolism, collaborations and interpretations all still being unravelled, it's gonna be dancing on the cyber shards for months to come. Read our first impressions here.Like always with these game-changing moments of cultural gravitas though, it's also spawned a wonderful wave of sub-content in the forms of images, gifs and memes, that are now wafting through cyberspace like the digitised smell of a thousand Big Macs. There have been motivational posters made from Kendrick's "Life ain't shit but a fat vagina" line, rather surreal video recorded bedroom reviews, and frantic recirculation of the 1994 Tupac interview that features on the album's final track.But the finest piece of gold yet has to be the video below. Using a clip of Kanye dancing at Paris Fashion Week, some wise post-millennial has set it to the uncut and undiluted cosmic funk of Kendrick's "King Kunta", and it fits better than a tennis ball in a Pringles tube.The clip, now uploaded to YouTube, was originally posted by someone called streetlights as a comment on RapGenius. Well, streetlights, I don't know who you are, I probably never will, but I just want to let you know: you're my hero.Long live King Kuntye.You can follow Joe on Twitter.
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