Last night (March 10), Kendrick Lamar dropped the cover to his latest album and less than 24 hours covered Rolling Stone. In the cover story for the historic magazine K Dot dons a Chicago White Sox Starter jacket while getting hasher twisted.

Titled “The Trials of Kendrick Lamar,” the Compton representative spoke and previewed his To Pimp a Butterfly album, in which Rolling Stone describes as “adventurous, incorporating elements of funk, spoken-word poetry, and free-jazz, augmented by lots of live playing.”

Rolling stone inquired the meaning behind the To Pimp a Butterfly title, which he didn’t provide a direct answer but stated, “That will be taught in college courses someday.

“You take a black kid out of Compton and put him I the limelight, and you find answers about yourself you never knew you were searching for,” Kendrick said. “There’s some stuff in there, man. It’s a roller coaster. It builds.”

Check out the cover above and watch behind the scenes of the shoot below.