Albums Earl Sweatshirt - Some Rap Songs (Discussion Thread)

[DosCadenaz]

Tell me how you been fakin the whole time, that's how surveillance go

On December 24th this his best project

 

[bigillwill06]

someone pass me a plate

 

[DosCadenaz]

This album was beautiful.

 

[TheDarceKnight]

Dilla is one too. Electronic producers tend to bite him a lot

You're right. I kinda lump he and Madlib together. Maybe a bit unfair, but Dilla started taking some of Madlib's style in his later years, and vice-versa.

They're both highly copied, no doubt. Dilla probably more so, but maybe less successfully? Dilla's drums are unmatched.

 

[Mr Rager]

Been waiting on this one *birdman hand rub*

 

[ECA]

You're right. I kinda lump he and Madlib together. Maybe a bit unfair, but Dilla started taking some of Madlib's style in his later years, and vice-versa.

They're both highly copied, no doubt. Dilla probably more so, but maybe less successfully? Dilla's drums are unmatched.

Yeah Dilla has the best drums of all time, A lot of producers don't even bother tryna emulate that style. A lot of the great rap projects of the past decade hardly have any snares on em.

 

[Hugs]

someone pass me a plate

 

[Citi Trends]

This made me wonder....is Madlib the most copied producer of the past decade? I kinda think maybe so.

Premier, RZA, and Dre were all copied heavily. But since 2010 there are a lot of dudes (good and bad) making Madlib-type beats.

It's a topic for another thread but you just got me wondering.

He’s definitely up there

The whole lofi/glitch/electronic hip hop wave in the mid 2010s was based off his shyt(shlohmo, xxyyxx, clams casino etc) and a lot of this shyt is based off them

I would say him and flying lotus

 

[Zero]

Is this depressing? I don't feel like being sad right now

 

[Dolo]

breh is he not using the triplet flow on that first track

Nah but if he was i wouldnt mind tbh. Im glad Earl grew as an artist and just be saying realer shyt now, not focusing on rhyming too much even tho his rhyming still on point.

 

[Lhark]

evidently it was written like nas

 

[Woodrow]

Syrupy lyrics over that fine china

For nikkas sayin its too short idk what yall listenin to, every line is a complete thought by itself, he aint wastin 4-8 bars to get a thought across, you gotta have a sharp mind to be concise like that

A 2 min track from earl got more substance in it than 4-5 minutes from your average rapper

Alot of people who spit over madlib soundin beats write like that, he lowkey mad that form of rap due to his production style

No the fukk he did not.

That style has been around forever. It’s the reason “you made it a hot line, I made it a hot song” has never made a lick of sense to me as a diss. Making it a hot line when it’s surroinded by other jewels before and after is infinitely harder to do.

NaS was doing it. Gza too. You could argue the implementation of 16 bar formatting in the 80’s (moving away from just rapping until the reel ran out) represents the earliest evolution of this style.

Crediting it to Madlib as an inventor is fukking ridiculous. Crediting him as someone who helped PUSH IT FURTHER... well, that’s different altogether.

 

[Dolo]

Love this shyt. Its left field, gritty, sad, and personal. My favorite Earl album and probably album of the year, he delivered.

 

[Mowgli]

First track hot trash.

After that?



Think there's one more weak ass song at the end but i enjoyed the rest


I don't get this album lyrically flow wise and all that but I'm enjoying the vibe so good job to Earl

 

[HustlerOfVirginiA]

Never gave him a spin.where should I begin?

Just go in order honestly, start with his earl mixtape and go from there