Yo comment made my night, I just got kicked out of my house. What a shitty night. Fr though this shit made me laugh even with the way this shitty world turns
people always say that, and forget that frank was a full-fledged OF artist. Earl is hands down my favorite rapper...for the past 5+ years..but frank has been my favorite artist since like 2011..easily. overall, I'd take frank different categories though.
Being an individual who has spent most of his life in loneliness and depression, with severe anxiety and panic disorders; I always seem to enjoy this 'solace' type of music more, even though all it does is rub salt to the wound in a certain way, I feel like I can easily connect and relate to it more than other kinds of music. This one song in particular has been my favorite of all year, for some reason it sort of calms me down and makes me think trough a lot of stuff happening in my life, it's a perfect song to get high to.
It takes guts to make tracks like this. This is such a raw look at what it feels like to be depressed, and it's hard to expose yourself like that to millions of people. But yeah, these are the sorts of songs that stick with people for years, and are remembered for generations.
This video is so poetic, during the last 30 seconds he goes through 2 stages and goes through depression when the instrumental starts, throughout most of the song he talks about the fake people of his life, most likely venting his anger, right before the instrumental he states “I just want my time and my mind intact, when they both gone, you can’t buy em back” which is bargaining, the third stage of grief, throughout the instrumental he looks more accustomed to it, AKA acceptance, meaning through only a minute and 30 seconds he showed and went through 4 stages, not to mention how there are 5 drummers, each drummer meaning a stage of grief, no one can explain how they feel like Earl can
I'm not depressed or suicidal this shit is just lyrical genius this is some real shit that alot of people won't listen to because they associate it with depression but you feel these feelings when your not having bad moments
My physics teacher showed us this video and explained to us how we all produce a glow. He showed how molten metal creates a visible light glow and how humans create this infrared light glow in the video. He told us everything has a glow and the glow's wavelength is relative to temperature (molten metal is so hot the glow seeps into visible light)
I saw a literal sweatshirt with the words EARL on it and his face and I was so confused. I looked up earl sweatshirt. And this popped up. Good stuff!!! His music is so unique and depressing in a good way. I love it
Idk I see a lot of Top 20 current rappers lists than put earl somewhere in there, plus you got k-dot praising earl on twitter. people just aren't buying his music I guess.
Idk I see a lot of Top 20 current rappers lists than put earl somewhere in there, plus you got k-dot praising earl on twitter. people just aren't buying his music I guess.
@@1Slo5ooh Sometimes in life you just need a little push/help from others and for me Mayweather was an inspiration but the guy who really made me think and appreciate life is *David Goggins* search him on you tube and trust me you will see things from a different prospective. ua-cam.com/video/WfcNW4CQJPY/v-deo.html
What makes this whole album so good, is that its real, honest thoughts and emotion. Not many artist today write like Earl, or Vince, or anyone else featured on the album. You can tell Earl doesn't front for his audience anymore, because its all for him. He creates music for himself, and puts it out just for the hell of it. This is a real ass rapper right here.
Man I remember when I Don't Like Shit first dropped, I was 14 and life was rough especially at home. It was this song in particular though that I was genuinely scared to listen to after hearing it once, just because it opened me up to all the hatred and hopelessness I had in my heart at the time. Now I'm all grown but i still remember how deep that shit was for me
I am so glad Earl is in a healthier mental space now and I am grateful he shared this part of his journey with us. This album released in my last full year of active addiction/depression during my darkest times. I felt a sense of comfort knowing there was at least one other person who felt the way I did. God speed Earl, we love you.
“Step into the shadows we can talk about addiction where its harmful where you’re going and a part of you that knows it doesn’t give a fuck pardon me for going into details” STRAIGHT CHILLS he literally depicted a conscious addiction in a nutshell. This man is literally therapeutic and relatable.
I'd give anything for Earl to rap on beats like this again, Brought out this extra aggression in his flow that made his lyrics hit even harder. Like I still enjoy what he's doing now, But IDLS is still my favorite album by Earl to this day, So dark and heavy, Every track just hits different.
So you're meaning to tell me, 2015 is brining us new Kendrick, Yeezy, Frank Ocean, Earl AND Tyler albums!? God damn, what have I done in life to be this blessed!?
Earl created not only one of the greatest pieces of art the genre ever produced with this, but one of the most dangerous. You can easily get trapped in darkness with this on repeat. It’s terrifyingly relatable. If you’re not careful, it’ll keep you trapped in grief.
This video is painfully ironic. The way I interpreted it was: he was lonely and down and out. And also surrounded by rats and snakes. He felt paranoid. He finally got the courage to break out his shell when he seen this beautiful chick. He followed her to be disappointed by her and his inner demons. In the end he was left alone again with his only sense of solace, weed. In the end he's surrounded by a band featuring his own self as the opening act to another disappointment. Dope video for a dope song!. Addiction is real
Normally beats like this are meant to make you feel uneasy and anxious. Personally they make me feel at peace, I can lay in my room in the dark with these on repeat
I feel many of us ignored the fact that he was really expressing his feelings. We've seen too many people pass in all realms of music and this, as far as we know, could've been the end of him. Drug addiction and mental health is serious.
Earl comforted me cause I knew I wasn’t alone, and I’m happy I can come back reflect on my life and realize I’m a lot stronger than ever. So if you reading this you’re not alone, We gon be alright, just hold on✊🏾
I'll come back to this album when I'm sad. I don't think I'll be able to enjoy this until I'm in a place similar to where he was at during the making of this. I think the main reason you see the Tyler and Earl split is because Tyler got happier, and Earl got sadder.
+RADubs i agree, completely, originally i think tyler was depressed as fuck , you can tell by bastard, and earl was somewhat happy, its like a complete fucking role reversal and it messed things
+omari oakley (Rebellious Nature) Sad because that's him. Some people are darker than others, and when you're affected by that level of depression (beyond what people call depression because something bad happenned, a harrowing, cyclical darkness that you cannot explain & are too afraid to face) it flares up in times. That's what I think happens when earl puts out tracks like this, and when you sink and let the times when it flares up control you it can lead to entire bodies of work like IDLSIDGO
joshua young early been known to make random accounts to upload unreleased music, who is to say he doesn't do the same thing with comments? You never know fam.
I was going to say from, "Step into the shadows we can talk addiction. When it's harmful where you going and the part of you that know it don't give a fuck" (idk what it's called...bar?) is actually fucking insane. It's possibly the most succinct, yet eloquent way to describe addiction. Barely two sentences, and annnyybodyyy who has struggled with addiction will immediately know what's up.
@@BlastVerses yes it does matter. depression is a mental disorder and sadness is an emotion. depression is something that some of us, including me, deal with and struggle with constantly, not something for others to identify with whenever they feel the slightest bit sad.
Julian Cleveland Depression has more than one meaning, you cant just link it to clinically... it has more than one definition and one of those definitions is being into deep sadness
Dealing with depression, having close friends disassociate with you because you're "too much" to deal with, this song is so comforting. Honestly, despite how bleak this song and the whole album is, it's comforting that pain and depression is valid even if everything seems fine on the outside. This song isn't just "emo rap" it's rap and music for the disillusioned in modern times, essentially a modern Hemingway or Faulkner for the people that feel left behind and lost in the modern times.
Social life is the first thing to go. I relate to the first bit you wrote, experienced that bare as a teenager. Probelm is we come on too strong sometimes, you learn to deal with it as you get older
Jesus Christ this song is so fucking real. I can see why people were wondering if Earl was "Okay" after he released this track. This is probably the most authentic look at depression I've ever seen in a song.
You know this is also the same person that made the earl mixtape and doris you must just be finding out about him if you referenced east to be his quote bad song which wasn't bad lyrically just the beat was
Earl music makes me feel I can truly be myself and every time I listen to this album, I feel vulnerable and paralyzed and actually let the words dissolve me and the poet involve me in his feelings
No one has been able to replicate this style of music earl did with this song. The first day this song dropped I knew it was going to age like wine every year after it
I've done every drug ect shock treatment and since I was like six its had me with my neck to the floor hospitals more drugs ....heroin.....I'm on methadone now but still its ugly cold fingers around mg throat💜
Idlsidgo seriously got me through rough times man. This album fuckin gets me. Honsetly my favorite project earl has dropped Dude was a sad boi before it was cool
I now really REALLY understand the message Earl was giving us... This isnt an anthem of depression its a tactic that he's teaching us to avoid those who create depression and how to combat toxicity
It sure does. This whole album accompanied me with my depression as a teenager in high school and now that I'm in my 20s I keep coming face to face with shit that is difficult to confront and I always return to this somewhere in the back of my mind
@@novanebula8004 same. I re-listen to this song cause of the difficulties that came to my depression, anxiety, and feeling detrimental with suicidal thoughts
@@iamlabyrinthh Hang in there fam I know that shit is rough but do whatever you can do to get through it in a healthy way I know when we go through shit like this we have a tendency to lie to ourselves and say things will never get better but they will always get better we just have to truly want them to
@@novanebula8004 Thanks I really do appreciate that kind words of advice. And I'm getting better day by day though. It's been many years since I've contemplated it. This year I haven't felt it as much because of the medication I'm on that helps me fight those thoughts and feelings so things can be balanced out properly. Other than that, I haven't done anything self inducing to myself. Nor have I felt self inflicted to self harm or overdose or anything of the above. But I'm slowly getting better. I've had one instance where I felt like overdosing but the desire wasn't there to do it cause I didn't feel like ending it there leaving people who care about me with the same pain I felt if I choose to end my life by swallowing those pills. With today's society it's self provoking to see how many don't take people with depression and actual anxiety seriously. I only did self harm cause I felt I deserved the pain. But now I've learned from it and learning each day. But again thank you and the same goes back to you in return. 💖🦋
cant believe this song is about to be 2 years old soon...feels like just yesterday i was grieving over how unfair life was and how i felt like i was living a life trapped in a prison i called my own head. depression was ass...i used to be one of those guys that made fun of people who where depressed and used to say they should man up and stop being ungrateful...oh the irony that was, but now that im normal, thx earl, for being the only artist i felt like i could actually relate to
I think the video starts with him at party where he let's his mind wander. But he quickly realises that despite being surrounded by all these people and with friends, he feels entirely alone. His emptiness leads him to drugs and chasing after women. Which is why they show the ass and legs walking away but nothing else. The mice that seem to meet up and then go different ways can symbolise many things, including his enemies plotting against him (this could be why he shows two guys meet up in between the scenes with the mice and the snake) or it could be his own conflicting thoughts and paranioa of being under attack (hence the snake on the couch approaching the camera/ mice) that he needs to be distracted from with things like...you guessed it, women. But the girl dives into water that looks like an abyss and comes up looking frightening. Forever caught in a perpetual loop of drug abuse and the desire to escape, he finally realises he is a prisoner of his own mind and because of this he can't trust his own instincts as we saw what happened to the woman in the pool. Leaving us to assume he either can't pursue the things he wants for whatever reason because there will always be this abyss between him and it, or that those things are not worth persuing at all. Then he's left with guys in masks playing instruments. I think these are the walls of his mind and he drowns out his loneliness and sorrow with music as he falls deeper into lunacy since the people playing the instruments look like they may be him in different forms. No longer is the abyss just in front of him, but he becomes engulfed in it as all scenery has completely vanished at This point. This whole thing may just be commentary on how fame has affected his life both psychologicaly and socially and how music has been the only thing allowing him to keep a firm grip on reality as the walls of his mind have been relentlessly reminded him that he is all of those things he sees in the video. This is just my take and opinion though so I may be completely wrong lol.
This dropped when i was in 6th grade in 2015 and it’s been one of my favorite earl songs ever since. And it’s about to turn 3 years old in a couple months. Thanks thebe.....
I was in a different place last year, i didn't appreciate what earl was saying, but now, we really in our lone shit, everything been reaped from me nigga.
this is a song you should not listen to if you have depression. but if you've beaten it, and exercise is one of those weapons you've used to climb out of that hole, this song can be a standard bearer for life, and it will drive you on and inspire you during a workout like no other song can.
+JUKES THE KING earl has mentioned before that tyler tried to control the production of doris too much and make it into a tyler album and not let earl do his thing which is why he distanced himself from them
6 years later and this song is still helping me through tough times. If you're reading this, things will get better. Maintain and remain you, peace and love❤
The way he opens his verse almost lulls you to sleep ... then the build up is like oh shit... then the lyrical cup overflows and he absolutely spazzes TF out. One of my fav Earl verses ever
Wish I could go back to highschool right as this song dropped. I remember one of my homies showing me this off his phone in the lunchroom just sitting there like "uhhhh, Earl on his HARD shit" lol, better times
I was on my second try on recovery, I had managed 13 months sober until last night. I'm back here trying to find a little relief after doin bumps and drinkin' all night. At least I know Im not alone reading all you guys. that gives me a lil strength at least..
@@sadcel yeah true. there's many many ppl with very bad conditions..... living in an developed country removes the surviving problems but adds social and society problems. (dunno how to express what i mean lol. not native english and drunk as hell)
living in LA is hard when youre relatively known. cant go out normally, people always question why youre famous, why you arent as famous as others, and how the rest of your entourage is doing. tyler and earl are brothers, but tyler casts a bigger shadow fame wise. earl is dooms son lyrically and his legacy will endure because of that. tyler made sure all his people were on. but i dont think they all wanted that.
If they didn't want it they could stop rapping and move from LA. I mean most of them are pretty set financially if they are halfway smart with their money.
Damn... when he's sitting on the couch and that snakes staring him down at 3:12. Real shit. He can't move from the sofa cause if he does he's afraid he'll get bit. I think that image symbolizes the name of the album best. You put all your trust into someone and then they turn out to be a dishonorable, betraying serpent. After it happens you don't like shit, and don't go outside anymore. You're just stuck sitting on the sofa keeping your eyes on the snake at all times so you don't get bit again.
I was able to relate to this years before but last year I started going out,making friends and battling my anxiety and germophobia.I am back to this song and album now and it really hits home.Some of those lyrics are eye-openers while social distancing,when I don't even know what day it is anymore and I haven't seen another person in the flesh except my family members
Alex Alex Bro literally same shit been happening to me since 2017 and I recently started becoming social till this social distancing started and man this whole album hit me again with a whole nother meaning and shit made me think about what life different
I used to listen to this when i was deep into IVing heroin and meth. So weird to come back to it years later. Feels like a conversation with an old friend who i never met. Feels like...thank god i can see the light now.
This song feels like a cold hug
a hug that feels like a threat by someone who says "thats not a threat thats a promise"
Yo comment made my night, I just got kicked out of my house. What a shitty night. Fr though this shit made me laugh even with the way this shitty world turns
this
this is the best way to describe it
@@OinkHD u ok
You know the year’s been a struggle when this was your most played song on Spotify
Fergus Pitcher yeah, actually lmao
Brother, it was 2018...
You know somethings up when you listening to earl sweatshirt a whole lot
Abhibhav Sharma such a trash year
jesus christ you literally just described my spotify
Y'all don't have to comment "Tyler got happier earl got sadder" on every earl video goddam we get it
justin a fax
it's flip flopped now homie
woooosshh
daniel Erebete ? That doesn’t even apply to his comment
@@mywifetookthekids1923 wooooosshhh
Bruh I used to listen to this when I was like 14-15 now I’m 24 and it just hits so different. Earl was really in a dark place.
i thought i understood this song when i was 18 but now im 26, so many issues later, and i can actually feel it.
Same bro
Bro we was in high school, smoking weed and thinking we relate, but now I realise I was far from understanding
no you didn't, stop lying to yourself
@@simisosimelane7800 That's real asf we were really thinking we were 14 and so angsty lmao
I don't act hard, I'm a hard act to follow
"I was makin' waves, you was surfin' in em"
OMG EARL IS SO FUCKING UNDER-RATED
"All I See is snakes in the eyes of these niggas"
+coughdropper I didn't catch it on my first listen but that's a double entendre
Drumma Dre Earl's songs require multiple listens to really be able to catch those nuances. Not many lyricists are like him
+Isaiah Simmons but earl isn't underrated tho
earl shows us that even with money and fame happiness isn't promised with it. I think our worst enemy is our own mind.
yea, and its deep..
Just don't get addicted to xanax and you should be good.
sL00t if only it were that simple...
Dominic S. at the same time its our only salvation. its a paradox in itself. happiness is a lie, there is only joy and grief.
Love yourz
earl sweat always been more artistically talented than people even realize.
He's a fucking prodigy. Watching his mind express itself is a fucking journey.
^
Rabid Rabbit duhh
Rabid Rabbit 7 hate you
people always say that, and forget that frank was a full-fledged OF artist. Earl is hands down my favorite rapper...for the past 5+ years..but frank has been my favorite artist since like 2011..easily. overall, I'd take frank different categories though.
reminder that earl is allowed to make all the trap music he wants because he made timeless works of art like this
Being an individual who has spent most of his life in loneliness and depression, with severe anxiety and panic disorders; I always seem to enjoy this 'solace' type of music more, even though all it does is rub salt to the wound in a certain way, I feel like I can easily connect and relate to it more than other kinds of music. This one song in particular has been my favorite of all year, for some reason it sort of calms me down and makes me think trough a lot of stuff happening in my life, it's a perfect song to get high to.
Have you heard Earls song "Solace"?
Couldn't agree with you anymore
Have you heard "Tiny Tortures" by Flying Lotus? You won't regret it
quit being a bitch lmao jk
+Night Wolf did the useless doctor recommend xanax?
Earl got me through some shit.
It takes guts to make tracks like this. This is such a raw look at what it feels like to be depressed, and it's hard to expose yourself like that to millions of people. But yeah, these are the sorts of songs that stick with people for years, and are remembered for generations.
+psychotrip your so right dude
I'm using his music now man this bullshit they call life is a bitch sometimes
Tru
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I've been alone in my shit, for the longest...
snakes sliding in the streets
+Zambrano 47
Momma taught me how to not be like the bodies lying in them
Pigs, riding in 'em
I'm a target so it's hard to even eye me in 'em
+Donald Trump if he aint dying for me...
+Alethahe Cooper then I ain't riding wit em
It's no time for that
This video is so poetic, during the last 30 seconds he goes through 2 stages and goes through depression when the instrumental starts, throughout most of the song he talks about the fake people of his life, most likely venting his anger, right before the instrumental he states “I just want my time and my mind intact, when they both gone, you can’t buy em back” which is bargaining, the third stage of grief, throughout the instrumental he looks more accustomed to it, AKA acceptance, meaning through only a minute and 30 seconds he showed and went through 4 stages, not to mention how there are 5 drummers, each drummer meaning a stage of grief, no one can explain how they feel like Earl can
bro dis comment underrated as fuck
Earl is the modern Edgar Allan Poe
Bro graduated from Yale god damn
What do you think the symbolism behind one drumset burning?
Stellar analysis, my dude 🙏🏻
I'm not depressed or suicidal this shit is just lyrical genius this is some real shit that alot of people won't listen to because they associate it with depression but you feel these feelings when your not having bad moments
couldn't have explained it better
exactly, we all human that way
if you think this song doesn't come from a place of darkness tho, you're just wrong.
sounds like ur scrambling for xanax like me
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
this is.....artistic expression in it's purest form...
it's all right.
L8 Valentine no
bobizemo yeah.
L8 Valentine i don't think you know what pure is
bobizemo so, you going to list an example or just be awkwardly condescending?
his head is a circus full of depressing dark thoughts while in reality he sitting alone in the house smoking this reminds me of anxiety..
4real bruh...
forreal man...
He went from cherry bomb, to bastard pt.2
+Dallas the leader he wasnt on cherry bomb
+ImApro I'm talking about he was happy whenever he was on Of (cherry bomb) and we he left it he sad/depressed (bastard)
I know y’all still bumping this to the day
yup
On fucking gang
ya god damn right bruh
Yes sir
Facts
My physics teacher showed us this video and explained to us how we all produce a glow. He showed how molten metal creates a visible light glow and how humans create this infrared light glow in the video. He told us everything has a glow and the glow's wavelength is relative to temperature (molten metal is so hot the glow seeps into visible light)
This is why I love Physics
Dee Duncker your physics teacher sounds kick ass
Did everyone laugh when the heard the word nigga
Your physics teacher is cultured
Your teacher sounds cool af
this songs sounds different when ur struglin
real shit
Marcus Basina fr
damn...real shit!
u good bro?
Marcus Basina word, i been tryna push dis dooky out fo a minute
Sick video to accompany a dark, slow, dreamy song.
HEY!
Brett Keane shut up butt king ( no offense to your family )
Brett Keane
The Bread Queen! Fuck your family
aretn you the guy who felt that some song felt like taking a trip into an evil computers anus
adil mahmood yeah
This will forever be the darkest and grimmest song until earl released Peanut
the first time i listened to peanut on acid, i kid you not i went to a very very dark place that i’ve never been back to
solace probably worse at least sonically
@@tannerstauffer3980 glad you haven’t been back to that place, proud of you
@Ana Moreno no homo
@Ana Moreno I'm saying no homo on my part G
I saw a literal sweatshirt with the words EARL on it and his face and I was so confused. I looked up earl sweatshirt. And this popped up. Good stuff!!! His music is so unique and depressing in a good way. I love it
Gigi Codi that is amazing lol
Marc Dunn tragic bro, tragic
Marc Dunn srry 4 the loss
Gigi Codi I got the shirt, and man I love that shirt.
+Marc Dunn my condolences
easily one of the most underrated rappers of this generation. hes easily a top 10 rapper of this generation and people still are sleeping on him smh
thanks for clarifying that. i could not agree more
Idk I see a lot of Top 20 current rappers lists than put earl somewhere in there, plus you got k-dot praising earl on twitter. people just aren't buying his music I guess.
Idk I see a lot of Top 20 current rappers lists than put earl somewhere in there, plus you got k-dot praising earl on twitter. people just aren't buying his music I guess.
yeah Earl is actually super underrated lyrically imo
Andy Sutherland TRUE
This song is what keeps me alive. Depression is hard to get rid of.
keep your chin up
@@ahsuraht208 i appreciate it a lot, after 2 years I thought about giving life a second chance and so far I’m happy how it came out
@@1Slo5ooh Sometimes in life you just need a little push/help from others and for me Mayweather was an inspiration but the guy who really made me think and appreciate life is *David Goggins* search him on you tube and trust me you will see things from a different prospective.
ua-cam.com/video/WfcNW4CQJPY/v-deo.html
Keep it up you can do it we're all w you
You should try shrooms
This song really hit after 8pm
I'm listening at 8:01💀
Go to bed or mom will be mad you're up past your bedtime
So does Epar
Mace Windu wow bro you so depressed bro
4am
"Never getting out of hand, steady handling my job
Time damaging my ties." This is what becoming an adult feels like when you get that 9 to 5 brah.
Truth
Facts
Real
The intro to this is so good, like a demon waking up.
Rayndom Nayme perfect description
This is one of the most realest depictions i ever heard of one of the dopest songs i ever heard TRIPPY i know LOL
Funny enough earl sampled "i stay woke" by Erykah but slowed down heavy, so youre not far off.
What makes this whole album so good, is that its real, honest thoughts and emotion. Not many artist today write like Earl, or Vince, or anyone else featured on the album. You can tell Earl doesn't front for his audience anymore, because its all for him. He creates music for himself, and puts it out just for the hell of it. This is a real ass rapper right here.
Man I remember when I Don't Like Shit first dropped, I was 14 and life was rough especially at home. It was this song in particular though that I was genuinely scared to listen to after hearing it once, just because it opened me up to all the hatred and hopelessness I had in my heart at the time. Now I'm all grown but i still remember how deep that shit was for me
This song definitely has one of the darkest instrumental I’ve ever heard.
Earls music is always deep. But especially deep when you're down. Hope you are doing better now
I feel you bro...for real.
Fuckin same
Preach
Earl be going hard can imagine him and flying Lotus writing together
Already happened
Between friends and between villains look em up man
I have a feeling someone in Flylo's camp made this beat.
Earl, flylo, and tyler are the voice of captain murphy.
Justin Carter No nigga,FlyLo is captain murphy do your research.
Q-Tip "Talk to Joey, Earl, Kendrick, and Cole, gatekeepers of flow
They are extensions of instinctual soul"
AWESOME
True tho
N Roddy rich
What song?
BALMAIN RICHARD ? Say sike now 😂
I am so glad Earl is in a healthier mental space now and I am grateful he shared this part of his journey with us. This album released in my last full year of active addiction/depression during my darkest times. I felt a sense of comfort knowing there was at least one other person who felt the way I did. God speed Earl, we love you.
“Step into the shadows we can talk about addiction where its harmful where you’re going and a part of you that knows it doesn’t give a fuck pardon me for going into details” STRAIGHT CHILLS he literally depicted a conscious addiction in a nutshell. This man is literally therapeutic and relatable.
I thought I was the only one. This shit literally had me stop what I was doing and just think when that line came.
I'd give anything for Earl to rap on beats like this again, Brought out this extra aggression in his flow that made his lyrics hit even harder. Like I still enjoy what he's doing now, But IDLS is still my favorite album by Earl to this day, So dark and heavy, Every track just hits different.
I just want my time and my mind intact
When they both gone you can't buy 'em back
THAT
Shit hit me HARD man
dang
God
Alex Furnas I listened to this song since it first dropped and I just now felt that
Lie
So you're meaning to tell me, 2015 is brining us new Kendrick, Yeezy, Frank Ocean, Earl AND Tyler albums!? God damn, what have I done in life to be this blessed!?
Earl created not only one of the greatest pieces of art the genre ever produced with this, but one of the most dangerous. You can easily get trapped in darkness with this on repeat. It’s terrifyingly relatable. If you’re not careful, it’ll keep you trapped in grief.
true af
"I just want my time and my mind intact
when they both gone; you can't buy'em back."
Two most important things yet we all sacrifice them both for money and attention.
I always find myself back to this song
Listen to it wit? Your eyes closed.
LoneWolfAlpha same
Faxx
It keeps one from simply grabbong a gun and blasting ones head. It really did for me in 2015 and every now and then.
Facts
This video is painfully ironic. The way I interpreted it was: he was lonely and down and out. And also surrounded by rats and snakes. He felt paranoid. He finally got the courage to break out his shell when he seen this beautiful chick. He followed her to be disappointed by her and his inner demons. In the end he was left alone again with his only sense of solace, weed. In the end he's surrounded by a band featuring his own self as the opening act to another disappointment. Dope video for a dope song!. Addiction is real
weed is epic
Savage Rabbit Damn this is powerful
not to mention it was shot in negative, signifying his whole mental state is in a negative condition
Savage Rabbit Relate two hundo. Gotta flush the lye down your system to stay sane. Or poppin’ pams it’s gettin’ tuff mane.
He's talkin bout Tyler and his old buddies and they would've neva been born if it waznt for... LISTEN.
Normally beats like this are meant to make you feel uneasy and anxious. Personally they make me feel at peace, I can lay in my room in the dark with these on repeat
Right
Doing this rn
Yeah this has a David Lynch feel to it
Got some similar recommendations? I been looking for something like this song
@@lameasslmk $hrimp Poboy - $uicideboy$
Clouds as Witnesses - $b
Best instrumental ever.
it really is, anyone know who produced it?
earl produced this whole album i believe
SpicyMC nope
Pretty much
+Iestyn Chiapelone earl made it but it was heavily influenced by gary wilsons youre too good to be true
the coronavirus has turned all of us into 2015 Earl Sweatshirt
i was already there bro
2018 sweatshirt for me lol
We dont like shit and we dont go outside
Jeremy Balise I was already there 💀
herbs
This beat is so oppressive. Like genuinely makes me feel uncomfortable. Some Silent Hill levels
funny because the sample that's slowed down is a chill ass erykah badu song
you must got to be the most sober person right ? serious question, because this song be having me zoned when im high this beat is heat lmao
this beat has always calmed me and given me warmth
Bro y u scared of a beat
Weird how such a dark beat offers comfort to some.
Earl is so creative, not just in his music and lyrics, but in his music videos too
I feel many of us ignored the fact that he was really expressing his feelings. We've seen too many people pass in all realms of music and this, as far as we know, could've been the end of him. Drug addiction and mental health is serious.
His lyrics are just pure captivation and power. its amazing how writing can be such an outlet.
props to the director of this video
Earls the director
a
+Micah Fedorchuk nah its actually Hiro Murai, look him up. He's been doing dope shit for years
***** No it's not
imvdb.com/video/earl-sweatshirt/grief
Larkin Seiple is the cameraman
+HARLEM TO HOLLYWOOD FILM$ everyone except you are idiots for not thanking Hiro Murai
“I just want my time and my mind intact. Whey they both gone, you can’t buy em back” i love Earl so much
❤
Catch myself randomly saying this around the house
Earl comforted me cause I knew I wasn’t alone, and I’m happy I can come back reflect on my life and realize I’m a lot stronger than ever.
So if you reading this you’re not alone, We gon be alright, just hold on✊🏾
✊🏻
Same bullshit the voices in my head say. Good for you famo, but we all take different paths.
Facts
Sensei yung darui
Thank you
This is brilliance, I feel bad for those who haven't recognized this genius.
let's be friends
im sorry, i just listened to his songs on autoplay . and said.. WHO DAFUQ IS DIS NIGGA!? and looked hup....its earl. ima a new fan now
Metal Mickey ha ha ha please
can you enjoy him more quietly and stop being so pretentious
zakan garbage
I'll come back to this album when I'm sad. I don't think I'll be able to enjoy this until I'm in a place similar to where he was at during the making of this. I think the main reason you see the Tyler and Earl split is because Tyler got happier, and Earl got sadder.
+RADubs i agree, completely, originally i think tyler was depressed as fuck , you can tell by bastard, and earl was somewhat happy, its like a complete fucking role reversal and it messed things
sad because of fame etc perhaps?
+omari oakley (Rebellious Nature) Sad because that's him. Some people are darker than others, and when you're affected by that level of depression (beyond what people call depression because something bad happenned, a harrowing, cyclical darkness that you cannot explain & are too afraid to face) it flares up in times. That's what I think happens when earl puts out tracks like this, and when you sink and let the times when it flares up control you it can lead to entire bodies of work like IDLSIDGO
WHAT IF EARL OR TYLER WAS ONE OF THESE NO PIC ACCOUNTS THAT COME AND COMMENT OUT OF NOWHERE JUST LOOKING AT HOW ALL YALL ACT....✌
joshua young early been known to make random accounts to upload unreleased music, who is to say he doesn't do the same thing with comments? You never know fam.
"Step into the shadows we can talk addiction" this line hits home. If you've never struggled with drugs or alcohol you honestly can't relate.
Yessir 🙌🏻 this and D.R.U.G.S by Ab-Soul
Facts
I was going to say from, "Step into the shadows we can talk addiction. When it's harmful where you going and the part of you that know it don't give a fuck" (idk what it's called...bar?) is actually fucking insane.
It's possibly the most succinct, yet eloquent way to describe addiction. Barely two sentences, and annnyybodyyy who has struggled with addiction will immediately know what's up.
@@bstewy_434 I still struggle I'm an alcoholic
"When it's harmful where you're going and the part of you that know it don't give a fuck"
This really is what addiction is
I bump this shit even when I'm not depressed
You mean sad, not depressed
+N A does it matter
Oh yeah yeah
@@BlastVerses yes it does matter. depression is a mental disorder and sadness is an emotion. depression is something that some of us, including me, deal with and struggle with constantly, not something for others to identify with whenever they feel the slightest bit sad.
Julian Cleveland Depression has more than one meaning, you cant just link it to clinically... it has more than one definition and one of those definitions is being into deep sadness
Dealing with depression, having close friends disassociate with you because you're "too much" to deal with, this song is so comforting. Honestly, despite how bleak this song and the whole album is, it's comforting that pain and depression is valid even if everything seems fine on the outside. This song isn't just "emo rap" it's rap and music for the disillusioned in modern times, essentially a modern Hemingway or Faulkner for the people that feel left behind and lost in the modern times.
Social life is the first thing to go. I relate to the first bit you wrote, experienced that bare as a teenager. Probelm is we come on too strong sometimes, you learn to deal with it as you get older
@@aliasofanalias7448mans dealing with that now its crazy
Jesus Christ this song is so fucking real. I can see why people were wondering if Earl was "Okay" after he released this track. This is probably the most authentic look at depression I've ever seen in a song.
"I aint been outside in a minute i been living what I wrote" Is way too relatable for me.
Idlsidgo >some rap songs> Doris they are all masterpieces he is a genius, his music is my soul may God bless Earl sweatshirt
what about his mixtape earl?
Amen
fuck tanner His EARL mixtape was fire too🔥💯
What about Kitchen Cutlery when he was known as Sly Tendencies?? Lol
srs>idlsidgo but all great
Song is becoming relatable as people around me become more and more fake.
LT Lyrics got that right 😒
How's that cry for attention working for you?
@@arlostein1000
How's acting like an ass working for ya?
@@arlostein1000 pretty good he got like 500 likes from it
@LT Lyrics They have always been fake. take care mate
This is literally the theme song for everyone clinically depressed
┗(-_- )┓TURNT true
Exactly.
Self diagnosed*
Facts
strongmoon1 lol that too
Bagels have nice taste
This is the same man that made Pigeons.
And that's tight too.
Dre and east is a fantastic song
DOUBLE BACK WHEN YOU GOT IT MADE NO FAT IN COLLARD GREENS SOME SHIT DUU DUU DUU DUU
You know this is also the same person that made the earl mixtape and doris you must just be finding out about him if you referenced east to be his quote bad song which wasn't bad lyrically just the beat was
i don’t think a lot of people understand how deep and crazy this song is. unbelievable talent.
Earl music makes me feel I can truly be myself and every time I listen to this album, I feel vulnerable and paralyzed and actually let the words dissolve me and the poet involve me in his feelings
this song and video portrays the feeling of depression so perfectly
I always come back to this album, to this song. Earl is just a master mind.
I feel like earl understands depression a lot better than most rappers thanks for making dope music for us sad people
I like it because it doesn't make me feel worse, aka more sad, just, you now, relatable, "exactly" while listening/reading.
No one has been able to replicate this style of music earl did with this song. The first day this song dropped I knew it was going to age like wine every year after it
I'll be revisiting this song for many years to come.
Check out Oblivion Access by Lil Ugly Mane, not the same style maybe, but definitely on the theme of Depression
I just listend to this for 50 mins straight. just walking around downtown. I think it's one of the best songs I've ever heard
I haven't listened to this song in ages, it's helped me get through some rough times and still does. Thank you Earl 🖤
Faxx
Facts
I've done every drug ect shock treatment and since I was like six its had me with my neck to the floor hospitals more drugs ....heroin.....I'm on methadone now but still its ugly cold fingers around mg throat💜
I dont go outside prepandemic, lately Ive been panicking a lot
This song will stick with me for the rest of my life
baby girl nah biggie small suicidal thoughts
Idlsidgo seriously got me through rough times man. This album fuckin gets me. Honsetly my favorite project earl has dropped Dude was a sad boi before it was cool
“Lately I’ve been panicking a lot... feeling like I’m stranded in a mob, scrambling for Xanax out the canister to pop!”
This still one of my favorite songs by earl to this day the production on this is amazing still a classic 😊🔥🔥
Is it just me or does this beat make you think your speakers are messed up? It's fucking with me.
GeminiEye1 that's the point, he mixed it a certain way so that it would sound kind of ugly
GeminiEye1 Sounds like 28 kbs lol....
切腹 Kooi lol it's driving me insane, feels like listening on 144p
because this beat is made of samples that are slowed down to the limit so they sound dirty and hazy, earl like this kind of sound I think
Joe Viberton
no he just exported this shit at a super low bitrate so it would have all these poppy and crackling effects
I now really REALLY understand the message Earl was giving us... This isnt an anthem of depression its a tactic that he's teaching us to avoid those who create depression and how to combat toxicity
The fact earls music is so much different now (still love it) just makes these certain tracks that much more special.
this hits different when youre dealing with shit you cant or dont want to face
It sure does. This whole album accompanied me with my depression as a teenager in high school and now that I'm in my 20s I keep coming face to face with shit that is difficult to confront and I always return to this somewhere in the back of my mind
@@novanebula8004 same. I re-listen to this song cause of the difficulties that came to my depression, anxiety, and feeling detrimental with suicidal thoughts
@@iamlabyrinthh Hang in there fam I know that shit is rough but do whatever you can do to get through it in a healthy way I know when we go through shit like this we have a tendency to lie to ourselves and say things will never get better but they will always get better we just have to truly want them to
@@novanebula8004 Thanks I really do appreciate that kind words of advice. And I'm getting better day by day though. It's been many years since I've contemplated it. This year I haven't felt it as much because of the medication I'm on that helps me fight those thoughts and feelings so things can be balanced out properly. Other than that, I haven't done anything self inducing to myself. Nor have I felt self inflicted to self harm or overdose or anything of the above. But I'm slowly getting better. I've had one instance where I felt like overdosing but the desire wasn't there to do it cause I didn't feel like ending it there leaving people who care about me with the same pain I felt if I choose to end my life by swallowing those pills. With today's society it's self provoking to see how many don't take people with depression and actual anxiety seriously. I only did self harm cause I felt I deserved the pain. But now I've learned from it and learning each day.
But again thank you and the same goes back to you in return. 💖🦋
"Feeling like I'm stranded in a mob" describes my life the for the past 3 years.
cant believe this song is about to be 2 years old soon...feels like just yesterday i was grieving over how unfair life was and how i felt like i was living a life trapped in a prison i called my own head. depression was ass...i used to be one of those guys that made fun of people who where depressed and used to say they should man up and stop being ungrateful...oh the irony that was, but now that im normal, thx earl, for being the only artist i felt like i could actually relate to
depression is a serious disease. We should not laugh at the people who have it.
Respect man. Going through it myself. Grief is it. It sucks. Earl's music has saved me a little. He speaks truth and sees life through real eyes
odd future made my future this made me soooo awesome
negative vibe for what? the fuck nigga this 13 year old will beat yo ass
King Creepa cmon' man don't feed his negativity
I think the video starts with him at party where he let's his mind wander. But he quickly realises that despite being surrounded by all these people and with friends, he feels entirely alone. His emptiness leads him to drugs and chasing after women. Which is why they show the ass and legs walking away but nothing else. The mice that seem to meet up and then go different ways can symbolise many things, including his enemies plotting against him (this could be why he shows two guys meet up in between the scenes with the mice and the snake) or it could be his own conflicting thoughts and paranioa of being under attack (hence the snake on the couch approaching the camera/ mice) that he needs to be distracted from with things like...you guessed it, women. But the girl dives into water that looks like an abyss and comes up looking frightening. Forever caught in a perpetual loop of drug abuse and the desire to escape, he finally realises he is a prisoner of his own mind and because of this he can't trust his own instincts as we saw what happened to the woman in the pool. Leaving us to assume he either can't pursue the things he wants for whatever reason because there will always be this abyss between him and it, or that those things are not worth persuing at all. Then he's left with guys in masks playing instruments. I think these are the walls of his mind and he drowns out his loneliness and sorrow with music as he falls deeper into lunacy since the people playing the instruments look like they may be him in different forms. No longer is the abyss just in front of him, but he becomes engulfed in it as all scenery has completely vanished at This point. This whole thing may just be commentary on how fame has affected his life both psychologicaly and socially and how music has been the only thing allowing him to keep a firm grip on reality as the walls of his mind have been relentlessly reminded him that he is all of those things he sees in the video. This is just my take and opinion though so I may be completely wrong lol.
Also, snakes may be a reference to others in the industry.
Petah Runs the jewels wow
well said bro. well said.
Petah Runs the jewels great theory man
+Petah Runs the jewels i love people like you
still so incredible to this day
Just want my time and mind intact, when they both gone you can't buy em back..
favorite lyric for me. super powerful way to end a song.
Miles Buerger yes!! The last couple of lines on his last verse
🌹☠🌹
Miles Buerger Real Facts
Kanye....
This dropped when i was in 6th grade in 2015 and it’s been one of my favorite earl songs ever since. And it’s about to turn 3 years old in a couple months. Thanks thebe.....
damn i feel old u were in 6th grade when this dropped i was in 11th lol
Brandonwun 😭😭😭
u were listening to earl sweatshirt since the 6th grade?!?
@@fawazalhubail7021 Yessir
I was in a different place last year, i didn't appreciate what earl was saying, but now, we really in our lone shit, everything been reaped from me nigga.
nigga
Dank Man wuz good g
Yeah last time I listened to this I hated it
I like childish gambino too
Gambino is the goat
this is a song you should not listen to if you have depression. but if you've beaten it, and exercise is one of those weapons you've used to climb out of that hole, this song can be a standard bearer for life, and it will drive you on and inspire you during a workout like no other song can.
Listen to EARL, and then this.. Man the progress he's made is insane. Long live odd future.. But I prefer earl as an independent artists.
+JUKES THE KING earl has mentioned before that tyler tried to control the production of doris too much and make it into a tyler album and not let earl do his thing which is why he distanced himself from them
+jeremy smoke this is inaccurate
+jeremy smoke source nigga
+jeremy smoke source nigga
True
6 years later and this song is still helping me through tough times. If you're reading this, things will get better. Maintain and remain you, peace and love❤
❤️ I'm here to
Introvert Anthem
yup
The way he opens his verse almost lulls you to sleep ... then the build up is like oh shit... then the lyrical cup overflows and he absolutely spazzes TF out. One of my fav Earl verses ever
Wish I could go back to highschool right as this song dropped. I remember one of my homies showing me this off his phone in the lunchroom just sitting there like "uhhhh, Earl on his HARD shit" lol, better times
2015 was golden
@@AB-ts6dn fuck yeah it was
I was on my second try on recovery, I had managed 13 months sober until last night. I'm back here trying to find a little relief after doin bumps and drinkin' all night. At least I know Im not alone reading all you guys. that gives me a lil strength at least..
Don't wash away your life... You only get one chance of experience in life. Nothing is new under the sun accept for life remember that.
tried a few times to get sober but don't think imma manage it. fuckin hate my shitty life. i dont know maybe suicide the only option
@@aim__freakz8499 at least we have food and clothes
@@sadcel yeah true. there's many many ppl with very bad conditions..... living in an developed country removes the surviving problems but adds social and society problems. (dunno how to express what i mean lol. not native english and drunk as hell)
living in LA is hard when youre relatively known. cant go out normally, people always question why youre famous, why you arent as famous as others, and how the rest of your entourage is doing. tyler and earl are brothers, but tyler casts a bigger shadow fame wise. earl is dooms son lyrically and his legacy will endure because of that. tyler made sure all his people were on. but i dont think they all wanted that.
You might have just said the realest thing.
If they didn't want it they could stop rapping and move from LA. I mean most of them are pretty set financially if they are halfway smart with their money.
Michael Tate
I wouldn't say set, but I'm sure they're comfy
earl lives in new york
Earl and Tyler aren't brothers tho. At least biologically.
As I kid I thought this was just heat, but didn’t understand. As a man I understand the message. Crazy how maturity and deception molds you.
This is going to be a great year for hip hop
False Ego how right you were,if only we could go back...
How does this only have 11 million views?
When will the world start using their minds to listen and their ears to feel?
Damn... when he's sitting on the couch and that snakes staring him down at 3:12. Real shit. He can't move from the sofa cause if he does he's afraid he'll get bit. I think that image symbolizes the name of the album best. You put all your trust into someone and then they turn out to be a dishonorable, betraying serpent. After it happens you don't like shit, and don't go outside anymore. You're just stuck sitting on the sofa keeping your eyes on the snake at all times so you don't get bit again.
7 years later and still grieving
earl needs to make more tracks asap
I just made a track with a big Earl influence if you wanna check it out
its called Lo Fi Medicine Pt. 2 and its on this channel
Yo, it's a new song called Mirrors featuring Earl Sweatshirt. It's good dawg. Share the word.
+David Hester been out for a while man
check out 45 by earl sweatshirt
i agree and I want to see him do production with Kanye West
It's been almost 3 years and this is one of the most relevant songs I've ever come into contact with.
#socialdistancing before it was cool. Earl was 5 years ahead of everyone else.
I was able to relate to this years before but last year I started going out,making friends and battling my anxiety and germophobia.I am back to this song and album now and it really hits home.Some of those lyrics are eye-openers while social distancing,when I don't even know what day it is anymore and I haven't seen another person in the flesh except my family members
I was thinking the same thing bro lol 🤣💯
Alex Alex Bro literally same shit been happening to me since 2017 and I recently started becoming social till this social distancing started and man this whole album hit me again with a whole nother meaning and shit made me think about what life different
@@Slytendencie At least we have the songs we had back then.It is not the first time we are isolated
As a misanthrope I resonate with Earl and his music helps me battle depression too
I used to listen to this when i was deep into IVing heroin and meth. So weird to come back to it years later. Feels like a conversation with an old friend who i never met. Feels like...thank god i can see the light now.
Glad you’re in a better place now. 🫡