Following his significant haul of prizes at the Grammy Awards earlier this week, Kendrick Lamar has spoken about the motivation behind his decision to perform previously unreleased material at the ceremony.

In an interview with 2 Dope Boyz, a hip-hop fan site, the 28 year old rapper says that he regards television as an opportunity to perform his music in different ways, as he originally wanted it to appear on his albums.

“You see all these performances on these late night shows… I got a chamber of material from the album that I was in love where sample clearances or something as simple as a deadline kept it off the album,” he said. “But I think probably close to ten songs that I’m in love with that I’ll still play and still perform that didn’t make the cut.”

Kendrick LamarKendrick Lamar won five awards at the 2016 Grammys

Kendrick is known for surprising and challenging audiences on live TV, performing songs that haven’t been released, out-takes or different versions.

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He performed a medley of two songs from his third album To Pimp A Butterfly on Monday night (February 15th), ‘The Blacker the Berry’ and ‘Alright’. He won five awards in total, including Best Rap Album, and the performance itself brought the evening to life with its politically charged message.

Grammys producer Ken Ehrlich said, before the ceremony, that Lamar had approached him and discussed the ideas for the performance with him.

“Kendrick came to us and said that we live in a time where these issues confront us every day and that it’s important that they be given a public forum, and he would like to use his ‘x’ number of minutes to create a great performance that is consistent with his this year. It is overtly political and it is overtly provocative, and I think if nothing else it’s going to give people something to think about and talk about.”

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