In December 2014, while preparing for the release of his third album "To Pimp a Butterfly" (2015), Lamar performed an unreleased, untitled track as a musical guest on "The Colbert Report". In January 2016, he performed another untitled song on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon". Following his acclaimed performance at the 2016's Grammy Awards, which included aspects of another new untitled track, Lamar revealed the existence of a collection of tracks that did not make it onto "Butterfly": "I got a chamber of material from the album that I was in love [with] where sample clearances or something as simple as a deadline kept it off the album."