Earl Sweatshirt

only thing i don't like about this album is RZA saying "fuck the freckles off your face bitch"

he was terrible on that James Blake track. has he had any decent guest spots in the last few years?

xp yeah. in real time as i heard that phrase at first i liked it but realizing it was gonna be a refrain i was all :\

Nah you see that's Bobby Digital and not Rza

lol

also i think it's kinda charming when there are little parts of verses or phrases or w/e that i can hear exactly in MF Doom's voice, just perfectly Doom

lol spottie

i don't really like RZA on their just in concept, i don't want famous guest appearances on earl's shit, i like how it's all insular and crew-only (like early wu-tang actually!) even though i get that rza is probably a touchstone for these guys

otm

the way he's used tho feels more like a dropped-in sample (even if the recording is original) than a real guest appearance tho. even if it still doesn't really work.

everybody loves this album. in case you didn't know. ann powers was raving about it today on facebook! i haven't heard it yet.

is this actually out in stores? would buy i think. i need something new.

this is good

Record is boring and underwhelming. It's the Lincoln of 2013 rap albums, a prestige effort that was pedigreed into good reviews, but that even critics who bestowed it with high ratings won't feel passionate about in a year

Honestly I'd rather bump Yeezus, even if this record has 3-4 cuts that could maybe rate a year end tracks list for me.

how is this a "prestige effort"? what does that even mean

nevermind i don't care

Prodigy/Alchemist shaping up to be the best rap album of the year for me

too bad we can only like one rap album per year ;_;

I'm guessing "prestige effort" = "preemptive sacred cow"

Haha rev

Molasses samples the same Lennie Hibbert song as Ms. Dynamite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvkLTH_rOjM

now THAT album i love. i have a beautiful original pressing of it. so magical. and strange in its way.

i think whether this is disappointing or not kinda depends on whether you are viewing it as a dusted weird underground rap record or an "event" album like watch the throne or good kid, m.a.a.d. city....

the spin review was otm in saying that earl's profile in the press has kinda meant this album has expectations that it wasn't created to meet

like it should be judged alongside ka's the night gambit or something not kendrick or drake or w/e

Chum, whoa, Sunday, Burgundy, maybe one other

But I don't regret buying the album on itunes

^hive

but helgo otm

like it should be judged alongside ka's the night gambit or something not kendrick or drake or w/e

ka's is better

Yeah hive too

i like em both for different reasons, i like the sloppiness of the whole earl album

i feel like the entire Odd Future aesthetic was painstakingly carved out of all the little corners of the history of hip-hop production and lyricism that i have absolutely no affection for

haha yeah i like it!

D12 f/ MF Doom produced by 2007 Pharrell sounds like a good time to you huh

hi i'm matt

j.k. but i guess i don't hear the pharrell as much, feels much more kinda like i said stone's throwy...some of the beats remind me the percee p or guilty simpson records

yeah i haven't heard all of this album so maybe the skateboard p vibe is not heavy on it

i've probably listened to this about twenty times through now, it's good.
good look with the axelrod samples too

nevermind i don't care

― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, August 22, 2013 4:21 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

was looking forward to this, but am also finding it a bit boring - lacking the puerile guignol and malignant mischeif of the first album (or the turns on Radical, Blackenedwhite and Earmilk). Earl's voice is still captivating, just find his manner more limited than before. Hmm, listening now and not sure that's fair, maybe it's the music - will give it more goes - still find that early OFWGKTA stuff fascinating and it's great to have a new Earl LP.

Just one thing, and he's in no way alone in this - wish he wouldn't do that thing having a go at 'the critics'. Go the MES route and NAME them - yr enemies - otherwise it's meaningless and also slightly laughable for someone so generally critically praised.

Just one thing, and he's in no way alone in this - wish he wouldn't do that thing having a go at 'the critics'. Go the MES route and NAME them - yr enemies - otherwise it's meaningless and also slightly laughable for someone so generally critically praised.

otm, but he does call out Complex specifically fwiw

ok, fair enough!

only thing i don't like about this album is RZA saying "fuck the freckles off your face bitch"

― usic for 18 magicians (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, August 22, 2013 2:09 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

OTM. This ruins, for me, what should have been the best track on the album.

Also, second half > first half, "Chum" and "Burgundy" aside.

there's also this way that RZA has of almost pronouncing words like "freckles" like "fweckles" but he doesn't quite do it and it's this weird imaginary letter that's between "R" and "W" that only RZA knows and it sounds like shit to me

is that not a speech impediment?

his lispiness is nice when (/back when) he's rapping fast imo

everyone say the word bjork like rza

its fun

Yeah, it's really good, starting to think that Tyler's output might be the weakest of the gang.

^regardless of what you think of OFWGKTA, I think that, a couple of clear exceptions aside, is clearly the case. To what extent does his (to me fairly moribund) musical influence permeate the others' stuff?

In terms of who influences who, have no idea how OFWGKTA works, but I came to enjoy Tyler way more when he is on other people's tracks. The thing is that he doesn't seem to care that much about making music like Earl, Frank Ocean and perhaps to a lesser extent, Domo Genesis. I feel Tyler's album are there to be there, because to do what he is doing he needs to releases album. That being said, I would have been way more excited about Odd Future if it wasn't for Tyler's antics, but I can totally see how people would feel the exact opposite. It's hard to tell really.

Tyler seems to enjoy that act of <i>entertaining</i> way more than Earl and Frank do. He's not always successful at it, but I usually appreciate the effort.