We all agree Earl Sweatshirt is the best young lyricist in Hip Hop right now, right?

[Greenhornet]

earl is by far the best and most encompassing ... with the most dots to connect

the other dudes ive heard are pretty much never going to evolve out of what they are already doing

 

[O.Red]

'Say you eatin but we see you gettin cooked nikka'

"I don't act hard I'm a hard act to follow nikka"

 

[King Sun]

Joey badass>>>

 

[Medulla Oblongata]

 

[Unknown Poster]

He's easily the best lyricist in his age group. I've said for a while I believe he's one of the best lyricist in the game. Dude can rap. He's just so monotone and right now he's trying to find himself

He's still only 21 too....he's got so much room for improvement

Easily the best rapper out of OF right now.

 

[Unknown Poster]

I think Earl needs to step away from the dark, minimalist beats and focus on expanding his sound a little. He's been in the studio with Metro so I'm real curious to hear how that sounds.

I'd rather not hear Earl over metro booming.

Personally, I prefer when he rhyming over that lo-fi post boom bap shyt...like on Captain Murphy with Tyler the Creator and Flying Lotus.

 

[SirBiatch]

don't know, don't care. Dude is in every other aspect, which is the stuff that really matters.

 

[Big Mel]

I want to kill Earl Sweatshirt with fire personally. But supposedly I should rethink that stance. His last shyt was wack as fukk. That I dont go outside joint. Awful. But Earl expresses similar, albeit canned, green ass rap ass sentiments as myself on twitter. Like he loves KA. He loves Denmark Vessey. Yawn.

 

[Insensitive]

I don't know the correct literary way to define the style but
I like the way EARL, Aesop Rock, DOOM, EL-P, Saul Williams, KA etc.
approach writing, it takes that literal straight to the point aspect of Hip-Hop
lyricism and flips it on it's head. When it's written right it can be really beautiful
and moving. HOWEVER when it's done wrong it just comes off as masturbatory,
where the lyricism gets so abstract and "Clever" that the writer becomes the inverse of Future.

In that trying to find a fancy way to say something, they wind up saying nothing because it's impossible
to understand. I personally Aesop Rock suffers from that while I think KA finds a healthy balance between the two.
Dope thread by the way, I've only read a few pages and I'm enjoying it.

 

[Big Mel]

I don't know the correct literary way to define the style but
I like the way EARL, Aesop Rock, DOOM, EL-P, Saul Williams, KA etc.
approach writing, it takes that literal straight to the point aspect of Hip-Hop
lyricism and flips it on it's head. When it's written right it can be really beautiful
and moving. HOWEVER when it's done wrong it just comes off as masturbatory,
where the lyricism gets so abstract and "Clever" that the writer becomes the inverse of Future.

In that trying to find a fancy way to say something, they wind up saying nothing because it's impossible
to understand. I personally Aesop Rock suffers from that while I think KA finds a healthy balance between the two.
Dope thread by the way, I've only read a few pages and I'm enjoying it.

Earl, Aesop, Saul & Earl have nothing to do with DOOM or KA other than stanning them.

 

[Insensitive]

Earl, Aesop, Saul & Earl have nothing to do with DOOM or KA other than stanning them.

Maybe it's just me but when I listen to them, there's a certain writing style there that ignores
Hip-Hop convention.
Mind you, I'm not saying their music is the same or that on paper they're carbon copies
of each other.

 

[Sauce Dab]

He's still only 21 too....he's got so much room for improvement

Easily the best rapper out of OF right now.

He was always the best "rapper" out of OF I'm sure Tyler would say that. Tyler made better songs than earl tho

 

[Mandarin Duck]

Joey badass>>>

No.

 

[Nature's Fury]

@WickedGames slap this in the OP




nikkas have no idea how deep he was in debauchery and fukk shyt when he penned that album

cliffs...i ain't watchin 20 mins of this nikka...

 

[O.Red]