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Bion’s remarks about music were few but fascinating. This paper provides a close reading of Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly (2015), an album that has been embraced as the musical centerpiece of the Black Lives Matter movement in terms of Bion’s profound comments on the power of rhythmic speech to engage other minds and bodies in otherwise noncommunicable aspects of experience. Bion’s observations about rhythm are elaborated with respect to the French psychoanalyst Nicolas Abraham’s notion of “rhythmizing perception” and Freud’s fundamental rule of psychoanalysis.