It’s weird cuz every earl track has me confused at first, but after a few listens I’m in love with the production and lyrics and am pissed that he’s slept on just cuz people don’t give him a chance
One issue an individual may have with this album is the mixing. However the quiet vocals, mumbling, and disorienting mixes and beats are aesthetic. This album represents what Earl has gone through the past 3 years and what it feels like to suffer from severe depression. Depression is a distorted and muffled headspace of loneliness, worthless, and suicide. This is what Earl Sweatshirt recreates so perfectly with his sound. The fact that most of this is so indirect is what makes this album so powerful. Great vid guys.
This is one of those albums that will definitely grow on you. The more you listen the more interesting and catchy the beats get, the more bars you catch, & the the more you start deciphering what the lyrics mean to you. This shit gets real personal real quick I love this project
Shupweme I agree, at first I was confused why it was so short and now I play it literally every single day on my morning drive, it has become like clockwork and is a medicine of sorts
"3 spliffs had my wing tips clipped. I was stuck in a hangar. Muffled my pain and muzzled my brain up." Talking about his relationship with weed going sour. Love that line.
This album is a definite grower. This is Earl showcasing his most authentic self. It’s about growth and confronting the past and present troubles. Most of the bars are very straightforward and honest. If you listened to his Solace project then this album was the logical next step for him. The production and unorthodox flows is heavily inspired by the [sLUms] collective. This album is supposed to be scattered and lofi as this is a look into Earl’s mind/dream state. If you pay attention there are a lot of bars on here referencing water which my mean something. Idk I’m just rambling now but don’t dismiss this album as just a half assed album. This project is golden
@@richardvxa the point being having a home is not a favor His Father's philosophy that ultimately disrupt his own life. His recent music video shows the absence of that, and how he and his mother used model hands of his father to sculpt him.
Tom Smith not just a speech, it’s a poem. He was a very popular poet. That’s where Earl gets his writing skills from. His mom is also a law professor at UCLA so he really was born to be the GOAT
İ HAVE BEEN WAİTİNG FOR THİS THANK YOU!!!! Edit: also never seen so many bars fly over y’all heads 😂 Edit 2: you guys should listen to lyricologys breakdown on azucar lot of bars there
My favorite bar on this album is "Peace to every crease on your brain, peace to who came before me in the game" talking about peace of mind and giving respect to the vets. But then if you change the word peace to "piece"...levels.
@@eldraque4695 so he says peace to every crease of your brain which alluded to finding peace of mind, but if you write it as piece to every crease of your brain, it means to put a gun (piece) to your head. Essentially saying to find peace of mind, you’d have to put a piece to your mind. The next line says “peace to who came before me in the game” giving the prior great rappers a sign of peace, but with piece to who came before me in the game, he’s saying he’s killing the game. Long explanation, but I hope I did it justice.
the beats are like that to symbolize how he feels, Up and down, inconsistent and all over the place with his vocals drowning in the beat not really being the present (the beats are his inconsistencies and ups and downs taking over and drowning him out) but at the end the track "riot!" is just a beat and a beautiful tempo and no choppyness or ups and downs.. resembling how earl learned how to live with it and still live and enjoy life for what it is and to be gracious.
You caught more than I did on the first listen, and some things you caught that I haven’t on my 100th. That’s why I wanted to see this so bad! Great vid!
Do victory lap by Nipsey Hustle do it for the late but great rapper it would be dope I enjoy this channel but I hope y'all can do something like this like you did with Mac Miller
Red water is one of my favorite earl songs ever. I interpret "I know I'm a king, stork on my shoulder I was sinking, I ain't know that I could leave" as Earl knowing his inner worth but still struggling with depression. Even though he's a king he was sinking into depression. And although the stork, symbolic of rebirth, is waiting on his shoulder, he did not know he could leave the place he found himself sinking into. The messsge is extremely relatable if you ever fell into a scenario you knew you were better than, but just couldn't see a way out of.
I really want you guys to listen to a dude named MIKE and his album 'May God Bless Your Hustle'. He's affiliated with earl. Their whole camp rap over those kind of beats so listening to 'May God Bless Your Hustle' might help you understand it all a bit better.
Yeah nothing really clicked for me at first except for a few songs. I did not fuck with veins at all at first, but after a few listens it got to the point where I had it on loop until I had a headache. I couldn't get it out of my head.
Tbh I think the whole album is basically an acid trip. He refers to it a lot, and the way this album was produced feels disjointed just like a trip. Its glitchy, the sample loops, the general vibe. This album isnt just a rap album, it's his life. If you don't care about Earl's life, this album doesnt impact you as hard
He used the production to make it sound like he is drowning in depression and emotions at times but notice that some tracks do have his voice in the foreground more than others and I believe that is mainly to give the idea of clearer maybe even less saddened thoughts. This album is fire after 10,000 listens and there are still bars that I discover every listen. This makes you open your mind.
Hey guys just providing some insight on the last 3 tracks.... On Playing Possum, Earl sampled an acceptance speech from his mother Cheryl Harris and a poem from his late father Keorapetse Kgositsile and his plans were to play it for his father and hopefully reconcile their tumultuous relationship, however his father died before he was able to show it to him and that’s why the last 2 tracks were added, playing possum was supposed to be the last song on the album. At the very end of Peanut, Earl says “Fathers face, but I’m not afraid...my uncle Hugh”, referring to his uncle Hugh maskela who died within 2 weeks of Earls father dying. On Riot! Earl samples a song of the same name by his uncle and of course it’s up for interpretation but I personally feel like it’s a perfect resolve to the album, almost saying without words that even though he’s in this depressed and anxious mind state most of the time, it sounds like acceptance. Beautiful album
he has said in an interview after the albums release that most of the beats are composed as loops so his voice is like the main instrument and gives him breathing space to fuck around with his flow and create new cadences. hope that gives some context to the beat choice !
ALBUM EXPLANATION Earl wrote most of this album after his dad passed away. He was going through a lot, he was depressed and “drowning” .. the reason this album is very different and disoriented is so the listener can feel what he was feeling when he wrote this stuff down. Nobody understands it first listen, nobody gets it 2nd and 3rd listens too, thats normal. This album takes a few listens to grow on you. This album is really for the die hard Earl fans, we pretty much understood it after a couple of listens. But yea that explains the very unorthodox and different sound. His voice is mainly drowning in the weird music, its beautiful.
Juan Hernandez the album was finished before his father passed. Only two songs on the album were written after his father passed. Which were peanut and riot!
VibeVilla can you pls react to "Token"? He is super talanted and he deserves it. Please check it out. Some that u might like - Doozy / New Problems / UA-cam Rapper / Dirty Flesh
Finally!! I agree with prince though, I wish he had a few songs where you could hear him more clearer so you could hears all his insane bars, still an incredible album though.
"My niggas came a long way from the dickies and dirty jansports" Its hard to believe that this the same man that used to run with OF on some loiter squad shit 😂🙌🏾🔥
Idk if anyone else has said this but track #10 “Azucar” is sugar in Spanish, don’t know if y’all think that’s a bit helpful, just wanted to put it out there😂
I’ve been listening to this album all the way through since it came out and you guys still pointed out lines that were crazy that I still didn’t catch, just tells you how incredible of a lyricist Earl is.
this album was supposed to be rly introspective, obviously way left field from his other albums. the red water track is 8 bars looped from and old track of his, december 24th is titled that bc that’s just the date he originally recorded it, playing possum is two separate recordings of his mom and dad giving speeches (his mom is an english professor and his dad was a famous poet) and the last instrumental is sampled from his uncle hugh who was a famous african jazz musician. i suggest going back and following along w the lyrics in front of yall bc as u noticed he’s super metaphor heavy, not just surface level barwork
I would 💯% be subsrcibed if you did like an "oldschool" hip-hop reaction type of a segment, for example one could be reacting to Immortal Technique, he has soooo many good songs and so many blow your mind -kinda raps. He makes you think!
Do Curren$y x Alchemist “Covert Coup” 10 otherworldly beats with some of the simplest but flyest Everyman raps come together to give you something the ears have never heard before. Y’all won’t be disappointed.
The bar from red water is "I was playin' with the magic, hide blessings in my sleeve" its a reference to magic Johnson how he would come outta no where with his shots that he would "hide them in his sleeve."
Gotta listen to Solace as well, sort of an in-between from earl's last album to this one. It is sampled on Red Water and the concepts are evolved into srs
Respect the real honest reaction, I think most of us would love to see a follow up video to this one. Give it a few more listens, sit on it for a few days, and do another vid of you guys listening to it then, would be really cool to see imo
Also with the baseball run on Cold Summers choke up means to move your hands up the bat for more bat control. Also using choke with the gun reference saying don’t choke up and freeze.
Playing possum is a speech from Earls mother mixed with his fathers poetry. Earl was gonna release it to better both of these relationships, being that his dad abandoned him as a kid and him and his mom didn’t get along through his teenage years. However his father passed away before he could release the track :(. A lot of the album is about Earl dealing with his dads death and other mental health he’s been affected by. Hope this helped. Also thanks for reacting!! Definitely one of my favorite albums this year (a little bias tho I love everything Earl)
mannnn 5:30 just coming in to say I appreciate yall's perspective here so much - "I don't understand what he's going for but he's choosing these beats on purpose". Mad respect, wish this was more common
So many layers here guys! Definitely read the lyrics, no cheating because earl is a poet more than a rapper in my opinion. His father is a South African poet who he had spent some time with before he released the album, but his father had passed away before the album was finished, so a lot of this album is pure feeling and emotion. The way the beats are so random and unorthodox is because you’re in earls head, this is earls mind. It’s a constant state of unorthodox thoughts and emotions. Loved watching this review, I’m subscribing! First video I’ve seen of you boys! This shit is my album of 2018 so definitely give this more listens!
The album is about deep depression at different level from sober to chaos and then calm really bad acid trips and mourning a loss I promise by third listen you will agree through the noise you will see and feel the beauty of what's going on here hands down one of my favorite albums from last year
Broooo prince and darae i need y’all both to go watch this youtube called Prophet, he make hair videos and stuff but bruh he sound exactly like Prince bro on me!!! I swear Prince and Prophet sound so similar bruh.
December 24 is Christmas Eve and I think it’s a hint to religion like Christianity. He relates himself to Adam if Adam were black with a fro plus the bar “bad apple did damage to my kinfolk” meaning when Adam ate from the tree of knowledge and God banished Adam from the garden of eden
Playing possum features a speech by Earls mother where she thanks the people important to her, her family and children, (she specifically mentions earl). What is interesting is she mentions that she is “distracted in her attention” and thanks those around her who have allowed her to be that way so she could work on her career (or win the award i presume she is getting). Being distracted and alienated are themes that earl has in his very own music. Her speech is then contrasted by his fathers poem where he speaks about refugee children in africa. Not having homes, and moving between one chaos and broken dream after another. I find it all very moving and the song encapsulates the kind of thoughtful artist and person earl is. Its like his DNA in song format.
You guys are one of the only reaction channels I’ve seen that are just totally honest reactions, and plus it’s not cringey as hell lol. Needless to say you guys are a breath of fresh air. Definitely subbing
Truly one of the greatest emcee’s of all time, check who he produces for now as well ‘tha god fahim’ , you won’t be disappointed *his lyrical patterns have been compared to doom and I love that comparison so much
A lot of the album is focused on his coping with the loss of his father as he references him multiple times and has a poem read by his father on playing possum. The lady on playing possum was his mother and that whole song is sort of a thank you to them. Apparently Earl was supposed to surprise his mom and dad and play it for them before the album came out but unfortunately his father passed away before he had the chance. Peanut is actually a sample from a song by his uncle who also passed away which was why he let it play out and was supposed to symbolize a sort of triumphant overcoming of their deaths with him moving forward to release the album in spite of their passing.
"IMMA CATCH ALL THE BARS ON THIS ONE!!"
*INSTRUMENTAL*
So he wasn't wrong
😂😂😂
Lmao right before Riot! “Imma catch all the bars on this one” 😂
Chimezie riot is super fire tho😂
CC X Menace it has no bars tho
@@MrWizzPants37 Doesn't matter
Topaz how you gonna catch the bars of a song w no lyrics? It’s a great song but it got no bars
@@MrWizzPants37 He was quoting what Prince said
This album is about DEEP depression fam, I connected after listen 10. Bro is spazzing this entire album.
kelsey giddings you gave me a cake but that never gave me no hope
@@poorsantana2468 cape
Its not just depression. This album also showcases how Earl matures, not just as a writer, but as an individual.
It’s weird cuz every earl track has me confused at first, but after a few listens I’m in love with the production and lyrics and am pissed that he’s slept on just cuz people don’t give him a chance
Bruh thank you god!!!!!!
People that don't like this album ain't listening.
Kristofer IS This album is an experimental masterpiece.
One issue an individual may have with this album is the mixing. However the quiet vocals, mumbling, and disorienting mixes and beats are aesthetic. This album represents what Earl has gone through the past 3 years and what it feels like to suffer from severe depression. Depression is a distorted and muffled headspace of loneliness, worthless, and suicide. This is what Earl Sweatshirt recreates so perfectly with his sound. The fact that most of this is so indirect is what makes this album so powerful.
Great vid guys.
J4y_Sh0ck this >
J4y_Sh0ck amazing explanation thank you
Love this explanation
bro he's so misunderstood. always has been.
This was perfect
This is one of those albums that will definitely grow on you. The more you listen the more interesting and catchy the beats get, the more bars you catch, & the the more you start deciphering what the lyrics mean to you. This shit gets real personal real quick I love this project
Shupweme I agree, at first I was confused why it was so short and now I play it literally every single day on my morning drive, it has become like clockwork and is a medicine of sorts
“Track number 15 is Riot!
I’m catching all the bars” lmaooo
"3 spliffs had my wing tips clipped. I was stuck in a hangar. Muffled my pain and muzzled my brain up." Talking about his relationship with weed going sour. Love that line.
This album is a definite grower. This is Earl showcasing his most authentic self. It’s about growth and confronting the past and present troubles. Most of the bars are very straightforward and honest. If you listened to his Solace project then this album was the logical next step for him. The production and unorthodox flows is heavily inspired by the [sLUms] collective. This album is supposed to be scattered and lofi as this is a look into Earl’s mind/dream state. If you pay attention there are a lot of bars on here referencing water which my mean something. Idk I’m just rambling now but don’t dismiss this album as just a half assed album. This project is golden
Chimezie Water & blood were the two biggest motifs on the project.
He's a a Pisces. Water sign. Water bending. Blood bending. The moon. All that.
Also playing possum has a speech by his dad who passed away and his mom
Tom Smith his mom giving an acceptance speech for some sort of award and his late father (who was a poet) reading one of his works
@@richardvxa the point being having a home is not a favor
His Father's philosophy that ultimately disrupt his own life. His recent music video shows the absence of that, and how he and his mother used model hands of his father to sculpt him.
Tom Smith that track gets me in my feelings so heavy
Tom Smith his father lives on in him, it was a beautiful song
Tom Smith not just a speech, it’s a poem. He was a very popular poet. That’s where Earl gets his writing skills from. His mom is also a law professor at UCLA so he really was born to be the GOAT
İ HAVE BEEN WAİTİNG FOR THİS THANK YOU!!!!
Edit: also never seen so many bars fly over y’all heads 😂
Edit 2: you guys should listen to lyricologys breakdown on azucar lot of bars there
Yo what's crazy is I've had this in heavy rotation since it came out and thought I knew it but they still caught some shit I didn't. Crazy deepnalbum
radiosurgery lmao same this album is complex as fuck
@@radiosurgery1802 SAME, I listen to it 24/7 but still didn't catch a bunch of them until this vid
My favorite bar on this album is "Peace to every crease on your brain, peace to who came before me in the game"
talking about peace of mind and giving respect to the vets. But then if you change the word peace to "piece"...levels.
Yessss
can u explain this bar for me i still don’t get it 😭
@@eldraque4695 so he says peace to every crease of your brain which alluded to finding peace of mind, but if you write it as piece to every crease of your brain, it means to put a gun (piece) to your head. Essentially saying to find peace of mind, you’d have to put a piece to your mind. The next line says “peace to who came before me in the game” giving the prior great rappers a sign of peace, but with piece to who came before me in the game, he’s saying he’s killing the game.
Long explanation, but I hope I did it justice.
@@thomasgledhill3706 🗿holy shit
@@thomasgledhill3706 ayt earl is not for me I don't know how ya'll get that shit
I was depressed around the time this album dropped, now I'm not. There you go.
🙏🏻📝
Same here this album just spoke to me and helped me
Same
Timestamps:
1. Shattered Dreams [
1:12]
2. Red Water
[2:13]
3. Cold Summers
[3:15]
4. Nowhere2go
[4:56]
5. December 24
[5:44]
6. Ontheway! (feat. Standing On the Corner) [
6:44]
7. The Mint (Feat. Navy Blue) [
8:02]
8. The Bends
[9:36]
9. Loosie
[10:26]
10. Azucar [11:07]
11. Eclipse [
11:43]
12. Veins
[12:13]
13. Playing Possum (Feat. Keorapetse Kgositsile & Cheryl Harris)
[12:44]
14. Peanut
[13:46]
15. Riot!
[14:21]
My nigga exactly the comment I was looking for
doing gods work brodie
thanks
the beats are like that to symbolize how he feels, Up and down, inconsistent and all over the place with his vocals drowning in the beat not really being the present (the beats are his inconsistencies and ups and downs taking over and drowning him out) but at the end the track "riot!" is just a beat and a beautiful tempo and no choppyness or ups and downs.. resembling how earl learned how to live with it and still live and enjoy life for what it is and to be gracious.
That’s a beautiful explanation
Riot! was an homage to his late father's close friend that passed shortly after his dad did
You caught more than I did on the first listen, and some things you caught that I haven’t on my 100th. That’s why I wanted to see this so bad! Great vid!
Well said. This is one of the reasons I love watching these guys' reactions.
Riot doesn't have a verse but it samples his legendary uncle, Hugh Masekela who passed like 3 weeks after his dad. It's a tribute.
Where the Divine Feminine By Mac reaction tho
Marcos Cunha YESSS
I wanna hear their opinions on that one,
But idk if they wanna film themselves get turned on together in a car by our friend Mac Miller.
@@cameronhopewell641 they don't know yet, maybe it'll turn into gay porn on track 4 lmao
You guys are so OFFICIAL. Y'all be really doing it for the culture.
DROGAS WAVE. Please, I´m not going to be able to sleep properly before I get your take on it. Best album of 2018 imo
Yes
agreed
Yup
Facts
Do victory lap by Nipsey Hustle do it for the late but great rapper it would be dope I enjoy this channel but I hope y'all can do something like this like you did with Mac Miller
Divy Tolia I second this !!
Divy Tolia 🔥🔥🔥
No clout chasing on a man's death... that shit is wack
@@lonnie008 if it's like a tribute thing and they pay proper respects i wouldnt mind.
@@mikeesteves8427 Game said it best... Keep Nipsey name out y'all mouth
Red water is one of my favorite earl songs ever. I interpret "I know I'm a king, stork on my shoulder I was sinking, I ain't know that I could leave" as Earl knowing his inner worth but still struggling with depression. Even though he's a king he was sinking into depression. And although the stork, symbolic of rebirth, is waiting on his shoulder, he did not know he could leave the place he found himself sinking into. The messsge is extremely relatable if you ever fell into a scenario you knew you were better than, but just couldn't see a way out of.
It's Stock on my shoulder but the rebirth metaphor sounds beautiful!
I really want you guys to listen to a dude named MIKE and his album 'May God Bless Your Hustle'. He's affiliated with earl. Their whole camp rap over those kind of beats so listening to 'May God Bless Your Hustle' might help you understand it all a bit better.
War in my Pen is a great one too
King Carter's 'PRISONER OF MIND' as well
Ade Hakim (6ixpress) - on to better things also
"SUPA SMASH BROS I JUST MADE IT PAST STAGE 4 AND OFC I PICKED KIRBY"
The Hanging Garden nigga...
bada bing bada bam, it's the puppet master, all of the strings in my hand.....
BEST hip hop reactors on youtube. So glad you did this one. Keep killing it.
This is true, they stop and try and catch every bar!! None over the head
Lord Quas what up! 👋🏾
This is most definitely an album that takes more than one listen to appreciate
At first I thought it was to muddled then after a few listens it all became cohesive. The soul sampling is insane.
100%
By the 4th listen it was album of the year for me tbh. Easily the most original rap album to come out in 2018
Killian Sage Same. It’s easily AOTY (of last year) for me. Rap needed an album this challenging.
Yeah nothing really clicked for me at first except for a few songs. I did not fuck with veins at all at first, but after a few listens it got to the point where I had it on loop until I had a headache. I couldn't get it out of my head.
First reaction to the Freddie Gibbs x Madlib album “Piñata” HIGHLY recommend
The production on this project is actually so dope
Tbh I think the whole album is basically an acid trip. He refers to it a lot, and the way this album was produced feels disjointed just like a trip. Its glitchy, the sample loops, the general vibe. This album isnt just a rap album, it's his life. If you don't care about Earl's life, this album doesnt impact you as hard
Dudes beard is dope
my guy said “ AH ZOO CAR”
Thats how i say it too, how do u actually pronounce it?
Lorcan Its Spanish for sugar. Just google the pronunciation, I’m not sure how to spell it out phonetically.
I said that as well until I found out it meant sugar
He used the production to make it sound like he is drowning in depression and emotions at times but notice that some tracks do have his voice in the foreground more than others and I believe that is mainly to give the idea of clearer maybe even less saddened thoughts. This album is fire after 10,000 listens and there are still bars that I discover every listen. This makes you open your mind.
Dope video guys! Ya'll considering listening to any Isaiah Rashad projects? (Cilvia demo, The Suns Tirade, Pieces of a kid)
Y’all should probably post a follow up vid for this one
As short as the album is, the amount of replay value you get makes up for it
Big fucking facts
Hey guys just providing some insight on the last 3 tracks....
On Playing Possum, Earl sampled an acceptance speech from his mother Cheryl Harris and a poem from his late father Keorapetse Kgositsile and his plans were to play it for his father and hopefully reconcile their tumultuous relationship, however his father died before he was able to show it to him and that’s why the last 2 tracks were added, playing possum was supposed to be the last song on the album.
At the very end of Peanut, Earl says “Fathers face, but I’m not afraid...my uncle Hugh”, referring to his uncle Hugh maskela who died within 2 weeks of Earls father dying.
On Riot! Earl samples a song of the same name by his uncle and of course it’s up for interpretation but I personally feel like it’s a perfect resolve to the album, almost saying without words that even though he’s in this depressed and anxious mind state most of the time, it sounds like acceptance. Beautiful album
he has said in an interview after the albums release that most of the beats are composed as loops so his voice is like the main instrument and gives him breathing space to fuck around with his flow and create new cadences. hope that gives some context to the beat choice !
ALBUM EXPLANATION
Earl wrote most of this album after his dad passed away. He was going through a lot, he was depressed and “drowning” .. the reason this album is very different and disoriented is so the listener can feel what he was feeling when he wrote this stuff down. Nobody understands it first listen, nobody gets it 2nd and 3rd listens too, thats normal. This album takes a few listens to grow on you. This album is really for the die hard Earl fans, we pretty much understood it after a couple of listens. But yea that explains the very unorthodox and different sound. His voice is mainly drowning in the weird music, its beautiful.
Juan Hernandez the album was finished before his father passed. Only two songs on the album were written after his father passed. Which were peanut and riot!
Juan Hernandez how u just gon make shit up like this
VibeVilla can you pls react to "Token"? He is super talanted and he deserves it. Please check it out. Some that u might like - Doozy / New Problems / UA-cam Rapper / Dirty Flesh
React to IDLSIDGO!!
You don't know how excited we were for this. Why the video in 360p tho lmao
nvm it 1080 now lol
Theo the Goober videos do that if you get to them really quickly.
Theo the Goober are u new to UA-cam?
Finally!!
I agree with prince though, I wish he had a few songs where you could hear him more clearer so you could hears all his insane bars, still an incredible album though.
Kevin Spacey the album is built off a bad acid trip, that’s why he mastered it that way
if you want that listen to i don’t like shit go outside
"My niggas came a long way from the dickies and dirty jansports" Its hard to believe that this the same man that used to run with OF on some loiter squad shit 😂🙌🏾🔥
Listenin to Earl like, “that’s a bar! I just don’t get it but that’s a bar”🤣
This album is a grower, needs serious relistens.
Idk if anyone else has said this but track #10 “Azucar” is sugar in Spanish, don’t know if y’all think that’s a bit helpful, just wanted to put it out there😂
Jonathan Berrelleza it was sugar in my gas tank
Eyy, been looking forward to this!
December 24th is just the day the song was recorded it was the first track actually recorded for the album December 24th 2015
Shit's not for me. I appreciate the art but the beats make it not enjoyable to listen too. Way too chaotic for my taste
give it a few listens. if you don't listen to experiamental music it will turn you off at first. it will grow on you
Drogas Wave please! 🙏🏼 🌊
If you keep listening it will grow on you. It became my favorite Earl album after like 20 listens lol
Luka Pitkänen It was my favorite album after the first. Just the sonic experience.
Earl too smart for his own good. Way underrated.
Can u guys react to Crooked i - not for the weak minded ft. snow tha product. Its so fire
Please react to Earl’s video called Nowhere, Nobody. Wanna see what you make of it
Bout time 😎
1999 - Joey Bada$$
Also this album connects to you after like the 10th listen it’s weird asf but when it connects you cannot stop listening to it
I’ve been listening to this album all the way through since it came out and you guys still pointed out lines that were crazy that I still didn’t catch, just tells you how incredible of a lyricist Earl is.
this album was supposed to be rly introspective, obviously way left field from his other albums. the red water track is 8 bars looped from and old track of his, december 24th is titled that bc that’s just the date he originally recorded it, playing possum is two separate recordings of his mom and dad giving speeches (his mom is an english professor and his dad was a famous poet) and the last instrumental is sampled from his uncle hugh who was a famous african jazz musician. i suggest going back and following along w the lyrics in front of yall bc as u noticed he’s super metaphor heavy, not just surface level barwork
I would 💯% be subsrcibed if you did like an "oldschool" hip-hop reaction type of a segment, for example one could be reacting to Immortal Technique, he has soooo many good songs and so many blow your mind -kinda raps. He makes you think!
Do Curren$y x Alchemist “Covert Coup” 10 otherworldly beats with some of the simplest but flyest Everyman raps come together to give you something the ears have never heard before. Y’all won’t be disappointed.
"Sitting on a star thinkin how I'm not a star" - isn't that a Mac Miller lyric?
The bar from red water is
"I was playin' with the magic, hide blessings in my sleeve" its a reference to magic Johnson how he would come outta no where with his shots that he would "hide them in his sleeve."
11:30 Lol the only song close to that is _December 24_ at 5:44
Gotta listen to Solace as well, sort of an in-between from earl's last album to this one. It is sampled on Red Water and the concepts are evolved into srs
Respect the real honest reaction, I think most of us would love to see a follow up video to this one. Give it a few more listens, sit on it for a few days, and do another vid of you guys listening to it then, would be really cool to see imo
dope vid, Make a pt.2 vid with a better understanding or a review of I don't like shit I don't go outside
Everybody acting like SRS is about depression. No, I don’t like shit was about depression. SRS is about new beginning.
why ain't nobody tell me i was sinking? // ain't nobody tell me I could leave.......
Really wanna see you guys react to the Divine Feminine by Mac! Just to be real its not super heavy on bars but the vibes are most definitely there!
Also with the baseball run on Cold Summers choke up means to move your hands up the bat for more bat control. Also using choke with the gun reference saying don’t choke up and freeze.
Chris Thomas also mean choking while smoking, previous line: “come through and smoke something”
Playing possum is a speech from Earls mother mixed with his fathers poetry. Earl was gonna release it to better both of these relationships, being that his dad abandoned him as a kid and him and his mom didn’t get along through his teenage years. However his father passed away before he could release the track :(. A lot of the album is about Earl dealing with his dads death and other mental health he’s been affected by. Hope this helped. Also thanks for reacting!! Definitely one of my favorite albums this year (a little bias tho I love everything Earl)
Bbeecckk only peanut and playing possum were made after his dad died so no most of this album is not about his fathers death
Brockhampton- saturation 1
I'm not stopping.
mannnn 5:30 just coming in to say I appreciate yall's perspective here so much - "I don't understand what he's going for but he's choosing these beats on purpose". Mad respect, wish this was more common
That line, "bad acid did damage to my mental" is HUGE in the context of the album when it comes to the production & bars & everything.
So many layers here guys! Definitely read the lyrics, no cheating because earl is a poet more than a rapper in my opinion. His father is a South African poet who he had spent some time with before he released the album, but his father had passed away before the album was finished, so a lot of this album is pure feeling and emotion. The way the beats are so random and unorthodox is because you’re in earls head, this is earls mind. It’s a constant state of unorthodox thoughts and emotions.
Loved watching this review, I’m subscribing! First video I’ve seen of you boys! This shit is my album of 2018 so definitely give this more listens!
The album is about deep depression at different level from sober to chaos and then calm really bad acid trips and mourning a loss I promise by third listen you will agree through the noise you will see and feel the beauty of what's going on here hands down one of my favorite albums from last year
Broooo prince and darae i need y’all both to go watch this youtube called Prophet, he make hair videos and stuff but bruh he sound exactly like Prince bro on me!!! I swear Prince and Prophet sound so similar bruh.
December 24 is Christmas Eve and I think it’s a hint to religion like Christianity. He relates himself to Adam if Adam were black with a fro plus the bar “bad apple did damage to my kinfolk” meaning when Adam ate from the tree of knowledge and God banished Adam from the garden of eden
“Wing tips clipped, I was stuck in the hangar” can also be interpreted within the context of Wing Tipped Tuxedo shirts being put on the hanger
Saturation 1 by Brockhampton PLEASE
Playing possum features a speech by Earls mother where she thanks the people important to her, her family and children, (she specifically mentions earl). What is interesting is she mentions that she is “distracted in her attention” and thanks those around her who have allowed her to be that way so she could work on her career (or win the award i presume she is getting). Being distracted and alienated are themes that earl has in his very own music. Her speech is then contrasted by his fathers poem where he speaks about refugee children in africa. Not having homes, and moving between one chaos and broken dream after another. I find it all very moving and the song encapsulates the kind of thoughtful artist and person earl is. Its like his DNA in song format.
You guys are one of the only reaction channels I’ve seen that are just totally honest reactions, and plus it’s not cringey as hell lol. Needless to say you guys are a breath of fresh air. Definitely subbing
Y’all Mfs Late Asf
You guys are from Toronto? Dude on the left looks familiar as fuck
You need to do some Snow Tha Product, she has bars on top of bars, she is millions of times better than trashi B and Nicki Minaj.
LMAO Yall niggas is smart! Love how aware and analytical your reviews are.
Please listen to I DONT LIKE SHIT I DONT GO OUTSIDE by Earl
Truly one of the greatest emcee’s of all time, check who he produces for now as well ‘tha god fahim’ , you won’t be disappointed
*his lyrical patterns have been compared to doom and I love that comparison so much
Yous should do Tierra whack- whack world if you haven’t already. Really great album.
Y’all couldn’t vibe with the mint cause it has a 6/8 time sig.
he sounds really depressed, maybe part of it has to do with Mac ...
His father passed in early January last year as well
Most of the songs were made before Mac and even his dad died. His music has always been depressed, especially since I don't like shit
god damn your vitiligo is so cool
(P) Thanks!
I’m fucking happy someone is reviewing this shit
FINALLY
Been waiting on this one for a long minute.
Also, what whip you driving?
I think you should check out brockhampton!!
Y’all need to put out more videos man 😒 review old shit if nothing new is dropping
A lot of the album is focused on his coping with the loss of his father as he references him multiple times and has a poem read by his father on playing possum. The lady on playing possum was his mother and that whole song is sort of a thank you to them. Apparently Earl was supposed to surprise his mom and dad and play it for them before the album came out but unfortunately his father passed away before he had the chance. Peanut is actually a sample from a song by his uncle who also passed away which was why he let it play out and was supposed to symbolize a sort of triumphant overcoming of their deaths with him moving forward to release the album in spite of their passing.
why does there have to be reason, think of the unconscious deliverance
Earl one of them aritost that will appreciated 20-30 years from now