Probably one of the most depressing rap albums of all time. When i’m in a mood where i feel like nothing is going right and i need an album to kinda mellow me out or like clear my head, this is what i put on. Earl is a master at being relatable and being poetic at the same time and i will forever love him for creating this album and his others as well.
@@freddyreyes1783 But the themes show more growth and hope than this project, in my opinion. Particularly Riot! at the end - it's like the sun shining through after a rainy day. I Don't Like Shit is just back to back depressing and hopeless.
for real...my favorite track easily, describes pretty much every feeling in this album the best. beat is so atmospheric and lo-fi and then the second verse of Earl just very slowly rapping.. it fits way too well
Important part of the song DNA is Nakel is not really a rapper, he’s a professional skateboarder and was featured in joke songs with odd future occasionally. Earl and him were in the studio on acid planning to just mess around when he heard that news and i believe it was essentially a freestyle from Nak during a very emotional moment
“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, pardon me for going into detail” is fucking killer, unreal to be able to break down such a grim subject so poetically while maintaining his rhyme scheme and flow. Masterful
Fun fact that makes some sense out of Huey being the first track despite not fitting the same: I don't remember where but Earl said the tracklist here is chronologically backwards, with the oldest song being Wool. If you listen to the album backwards, Huey becomes this weird happy ending, like he's coming out of the depressive episode the majority of the record sits in. But not really happy, its like a cynical feeling optimism. If you enjoyed Wiki on here, I implore you check out some other coke rap/ modern boom bap artists! Most of the topics stay the same but the way they write their lyrics is like magic! Listen to some more Wiki, Boldy James, Conway the Machine, Rome Streetz, Mach - Hommy, Benny the butcher, etc! If you like writing, and you're willing to stop and learn a lot of slang lmao, they are perfect for you.
Here we go 1/3. This album is what really got me connected with Earl. You’re right this is an 11 am listen front and back and wallow in your sorrows and there’s been many many nights where it’s been played for me lol. Also Nakels verse was literally recorded RIGHT after he found out of his friends passing so you can hear the pain in his voice in the verse probably my favorite on the album.
Based on your love for the production on some of these tracks, I HIGHLY recommend Mac Miller's Faces project. I consider it his magnum opus, it's the best example of Mac's lyricism. The whole project has a similar isolated vibe as this album.
Chasing rabbits whole face in the faucet to me, means he’s coughing shit up or puking in the sink, so his face is aimed towards a hole/ he’s in a dark hole, like Alice in wonderland is chasing rabbits going down a hole
I remember listening to this album a lot, walking home late night after basketball and school during empty, cold, dark Massachusetts winters in the city. Always been one of my favorites.
Grew up with these albums. I'm only a month older than Earl and he always seemed to make the darkness and bitterness I felt in my teens into something braggadocios and beautiful. Will always be in my top 5 🙌❤️
Left brain is an old friend of Tyler and earls who was in odd future with them and also a founding member of the collective. He produced a lot of their old songs and was arguably the best producer in the group at the time.
Bob I fw how you perceive sounds, beyond just lyrics I really fuck with how u take in instrumentation and how it relates to the context of a track or an album, you’re doing a good job man really. You helping people truly take in tracks PS Don’t forget that 1999 and Amerikkkan Korruption reaction doe teehee
Like Brockhampton, Earl shaped my ear for music heavily. His discog is just phenomenal, I really can’t wait for you to hear this and solace. Great, great records, raw emotion and talent. Excited Bob
I was 16 when this came out and this album helped me contextualize my own emotions and understand that people most definitely feel the same. It did a lot for me and means a lot to me. Most people say Some Rap Songs is the album they can't revisit because of how it weighs them down, for me it's this one, but I revisit regardless.
Wiki has some really good albums!! Definitely worth checking out. He's done work with another artist, Lil Ugly Mane, who is also extremely talented and unique. Worth checking out as well.
Found this album yesterday and it hit automatically, been going through a little dark period and this album helped lift my spirits a bit! Appreciate Earl for this one and appreciate your reactions always 💯
Hey bob, not sure if you'll see this but I wanted to thank you for introducing me (kinda) to Tool. I had heard of them before and had briefly listened to some of their music but had never gotten too deep or actually really LISTENED to their music. Thanks to a video you did talking about your favourite songs and how Kendrick's "Crown" was up there with "Invincible by Tool" I figured I had to listen to them. They have become an obsession and I can't believe I wasn't a big fan years ago. For the brief time I've been listening to them I've been inspired and have felt every emotion under the sun, it has really felt life changing. Lateralus, Forty six and two, invincible and Pneuma are now like my favourite songs of all time (many more I didn't name). I'm also now diving into A Perfect Circle to get as much of Maynard's writing as I can. Thanks again!
This album helped me through so much depression, it was something I could relate to and I felt like Earl was speaking directly from my own conscious. He has a way of voicing and describing his pain that I didn’t have the words for. He’s one of my biggest inspirations for my own art. Love this album Definitely a masterpiece in my eyes
going through a terrible time in my life right now and this album is on repeat every day. some rap songs used to be my favorite but i think it’s this now
This album came out when I first started college in another city from all my friends and family and basically my whole life. Really important album for me glad you finally got around to it!
Na'kel gives me chills. Couldn't help but tear up hearing this. I know it was recorded after he just received the news his friend died. And he was high on acid when he got the call from his mother. Imagine that. I believe he was still high when he did this. Sounds so raw.
Grief was the darkest sounding instrumental I’ve heard until I listened to x’s floor 555 but they are up there with that internalized darkness and anger
you gotta react to so it goes by ratking (the now defunct group that wiki was part of). one of the best and most creative rap albums of the last decade.
48:30 the way earl explained it was he was pretty much just really down do to anything with his homies and it was destructive so his mom sent him to a boarding school in samoa to reform him right before odd future blew up so yeah he came back at a crazy time
I´ve gotten into aethiopes lately and I think a first reaction is not going to do a billy album justice. Just so much to read into, I mean he references Mengistu Haile Mariam (A former ethiopian dictator) in the first line of the album. Hiding Places is not as dense tho and has some of his best songs. Aethiopes is so good though, aoty last year?
I second this, "Hiding Places" is one of my favorite hip-hop albums, if not albums as a whole, of all time; Kenny Segal's production is amazing, him and woods actually just dropped a second collaborative album, "Maps", today (as of 5/5), which I haven't even gotten to yet but I got Friday night off for it and I'm excited. "Brass", "Aethiopes", "Church", "History Will Absolve Me" would also be good first albums to listen to, showing how consistently great he is. I wouldn't go any deeper in the catalogue without first going through those though. On the other hand, Bob's been dropping multiple Earl reactions, and for not only the sake of variety but mental health, it's understandable not to dig into billy just yet since his albums aren't just complete mind-fucks, but have a similar bleak aura around all of them, and I know that Bob has struggled going on a streak of reacting to experimental hip-hop, which is why he started taking more time with more organized and spaced out months to really digest as well as more fun records like "3 Feet High and Rising", which he loved if I remember correctly. Regardless of all of this, billy woods is a very elusive figure and one of the most interesting artists I've had the pleasure to listen to, if anyone had the patience and interest to read this far into this comment, you most likely also have the patience for billy woods. Can't recommend him enough.
@@adamlagerqvist8111 I would say Hiding Places would be the best first listen for someone to be introduced to him well, my album of the year last year was Cheat Codes by Danger Mouse and Black Thought. But Aethiopes was in the top 5.
You gotta review Wikki. He is one of my favs next to Earl. Was so cheesed to see them on a track together when this dropped. Even some of Wikki's early catalogue with his group RATKING has such a unique sound. Wikki is a really good writer too. Not appreciated enough. Check Wikki out, you wont regret it.
Great reaction, this album really spoke to me back in 2015. And since you liked Wiki so much, you gotta listen to So It Goes by Ratking (what a fantastic record that is). Or some of Wiki's solo stuff. His last (Half God) is produced by Navy Blue, who's been working with Earl lately as well. Wiki is such a beast, he always tries something new with his projects. Regardless, looking forward to the next react, as long as it's something creative.
You should check out Solace by Earl, its a track about 15mkns or so and its amazing, has the same vibe as this :3 not saying you gotta react to it as I'm sure you're busy but its great if you ever want more of this Edit: nvm just saw you did!! so happy
This Earl project clicked with me day one, I'm kind of anti-social and in my head. Really solid album from Earl and it still holds up all these years later. He kinda stuck with the shorter more concise project template for his later releases, but they kept getting weirder and more depressing not in a bad way just less accessible.
Probably one of the most depressing rap albums of all time. When i’m in a mood where i feel like nothing is going right and i need an album to kinda mellow me out or like clear my head, this is what i put on. Earl is a master at being relatable and being poetic at the same time and i will forever love him for creating this album and his others as well.
Some rap songs is even more depressing
@@freddyreyes1783 But the themes show more growth and hope than this project, in my opinion. Particularly Riot! at the end - it's like the sun shining through after a rainy day. I Don't Like Shit is just back to back depressing and hopeless.
@@freddyreyes1783idlsidgo > some rap songs all day
@@maninspace2021 Agreed. And then you have Solace, which tops both of those.
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Grief is a MASTERPIECE. One of the greatest songs I’ve ever heard. It just depicts the feeling of grief so vividly
for real...my favorite track easily, describes pretty much every feeling in this album the best. beat is so atmospheric and lo-fi and then the second verse of Earl just very slowly rapping.. it fits way too well
True
Grief is my 8th favourite on IDLSIDGO but all 10 tracks are so good one of the very few complete 0 miss albums
Important part of the song DNA is Nakel is not really a rapper, he’s a professional skateboarder and was featured in joke songs with odd future occasionally.
Earl and him were in the studio on acid planning to just mess around when he heard that news and i believe it was essentially a freestyle from Nak during a very emotional moment
He's a rapper now tho, he has some good shit
“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, pardon me for going into detail” is fucking killer, unreal to be able to break down such a grim subject so poetically while maintaining his rhyme scheme and flow. Masterful
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So fuckin good
This one like always stuck out to me especially at that point in my life years ago … and it’s becoming relevant again. Sadly
@@-CNOCK You’ll come out the other side with your strength brother. I love you and hope you take good care of yourself
I'm so sorry to hear about your co-worker's diagnosis. Cancer really sucks.
Love the whole dark atmosphere on this album, def my favorite earl project
I hope he reacts to Black Kray!!!!
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He needs to get into some cloud rap fr he would enjoy it
“fifties in my pocket falling out like fucking baby teeth” is one of my favorite bars of all time
One of my absolute favorite albums. This was my high school soundtrack.
same!!
same lol
My middle school soundtrack😭
11th grade
Earl is exactly one year younger than me and I relate...even as an "old head". When i was 18 OF blew up and been following em since.
LETS GOOOO! This album represented my entire life when it came out. Every album was personal for me and I played it for years. Hope you enjoy 🙏
Fun fact that makes some sense out of Huey being the first track despite not fitting the same: I don't remember where but Earl said the tracklist here is chronologically backwards, with the oldest song being Wool. If you listen to the album backwards, Huey becomes this weird happy ending, like he's coming out of the depressive episode the majority of the record sits in. But not really happy, its like a cynical feeling optimism.
If you enjoyed Wiki on here, I implore you check out some other coke rap/ modern boom bap artists! Most of the topics stay the same but the way they write their lyrics is like magic! Listen to some more Wiki, Boldy James, Conway the Machine, Rome Streetz, Mach - Hommy, Benny the butcher, etc!
If you like writing, and you're willing to stop and learn a lot of slang lmao, they are perfect for you.
Ransom, Che Noir, 38 Spesh, RJ Payne some more great artists in that lane
Don’t listen to much Wiki, but you’d consider him coke rap?
love Wiki and the rest of the artists named here, but wouldn’t really lump him in with their styles. but would love reactions for all of these 🔥
Here we go 1/3. This album is what really got me connected with Earl. You’re right this is an 11 am listen front and back and wallow in your sorrows and there’s been many many nights where it’s been played for me lol. Also Nakels verse was literally recorded RIGHT after he found out of his friends passing so you can hear the pain in his voice in the verse probably my favorite on the album.
Don't forget Nak was on an acid trip at the same time!
grief is one of the soupiest, darkest, and grimiest beats ever and its so fantastic
Based on your love for the production on some of these tracks, I HIGHLY recommend Mac Miller's Faces project. I consider it his magnum opus, it's the best example of Mac's lyricism. The whole project has a similar isolated vibe as this album.
Chasing rabbits whole face in the faucet to me, means he’s coughing shit up or puking in the sink, so his face is aimed towards a hole/ he’s in a dark hole, like Alice in wonderland is chasing rabbits going down a hole
Very good take away. I agree
I remember listening to this album a lot, walking home late night after basketball and school during empty, cold, dark Massachusetts winters in the city. Always been one of my favorites.
This album is literally my number 1, I’m glad you listened and enjoyed boss 😌
Grew up with these albums. I'm only a month older than Earl and he always seemed to make the darkness and bitterness I felt in my teens into something braggadocios and beautiful. Will always be in my top 5 🙌❤️
This mf just said braggadocios
I’m sincerely sorry about your friend, Bob. It sucks that life can be so harsh, and I hope the best for him and yourself
YESSS finally. Been waiting for these Earl reactions all day. Love the videos ❤️
nice pfp i love mavi
@@thugnarsty was gonna say this in future tense
Left Brain was an Odd Future member, mostly associated w/ Hodgy Beats and their side project Mellow Hype!
Left brain is an old friend of Tyler and earls who was in odd future with them and also a founding member of the collective. He produced a lot of their old songs and was arguably the best producer in the group at the time.
this is easily my favorite album from him and took what felt like forever to finally see you react to him 👍
Bob I fw how you perceive sounds, beyond just lyrics I really fuck with how u take in instrumentation and how it relates to the context of a track or an album, you’re doing a good job man really. You helping people truly take in tracks
PS Don’t forget that 1999 and Amerikkkan Korruption reaction doe teehee
Like Brockhampton, Earl shaped my ear for music heavily. His discog is just phenomenal, I really can’t wait for you to hear this and solace. Great, great records, raw emotion and talent. Excited Bob
I was 16 when this came out and this album helped me contextualize my own emotions and understand that people most definitely feel the same. It did a lot for me and means a lot to me. Most people say Some Rap Songs is the album they can't revisit because of how it weighs them down, for me it's this one, but I revisit regardless.
i was 15 and i feel the exact the same way
the outro of grief feels either hope or just like end credits of the joker.
Wiki has some really good albums!! Definitely worth checking out. He's done work with another artist, Lil Ugly Mane, who is also extremely talented and unique. Worth checking out as well.
Found this album yesterday and it hit automatically, been going through a little dark period and this album helped lift my spirits a bit! Appreciate Earl for this one and appreciate your reactions always 💯
Hey bob, not sure if you'll see this but I wanted to thank you for introducing me (kinda) to Tool. I had heard of them before and had briefly listened to some of their music but had never gotten too deep or actually really LISTENED to their music. Thanks to a video you did talking about your favourite songs and how Kendrick's "Crown" was up there with "Invincible by Tool" I figured I had to listen to them. They have become an obsession and I can't believe I wasn't a big fan years ago. For the brief time I've been listening to them I've been inspired and have felt every emotion under the sun, it has really felt life changing. Lateralus, Forty six and two, invincible and Pneuma are now like my favourite songs of all time (many more I didn't name). I'm also now diving into A Perfect Circle to get as much of Maynard's writing as I can. Thanks again!
Also, just a coincidence that i mention this on an album reaction to an album with a song called "mantra"
This album helped me through so much depression, it was something I could relate to and I felt like Earl was speaking directly from my own conscious.
He has a way of voicing and describing his pain that I didn’t have the words for.
He’s one of my biggest inspirations for my own art.
Love this album
Definitely a masterpiece in my eyes
one of my fav albums all time
You should check out wiki’s music thoroughly consistent rapper, his project with Navy Blue is impeccable
going through a terrible time in my life right now and this album is on repeat every day. some rap songs used to be my favorite but i think it’s this now
This album came out when I first started college in another city from all my friends and family and basically my whole life. Really important album for me glad you finally got around to it!
This album changed my life. Everything about this album is just perfect
Earl’s best album to this day 💯
Na'kel gives me chills. Couldn't help but tear up hearing this. I know it was recorded after he just received the news his friend died. And he was high on acid when he got the call from his mother. Imagine that. I believe he was still high when he did this. Sounds so raw.
my favorite earl album, has provided me a lot of comfort when i needed it. hope you're in as good of spirits as possible bob 🙏🏼
Grief was the darkest sounding instrumental I’ve heard until I listened to x’s floor 555 but they are up there with that internalized darkness and anger
35:23 The tricky thing about true slang is its regional & then on top of that...with rap...a crew can have their own inner slang.
you gotta react to so it goes by ratking (the now defunct group that wiki was part of). one of the best and most creative rap albums of the last decade.
the nakel smith verse talks about hearing the news of his bro passing, when he got the news he was on acid too..... heartbreaking
48:30 the way earl explained it was he was pretty much just really down do to anything with his homies and it was destructive so his mom sent him to a boarding school in samoa to reform him right before odd future blew up so yeah he came back at a crazy time
this is one of the albums that saved my life no bullshit, without this album I dont know if id be here
this is my fav earl album, good shit
I would recommend Domo Genesis No Idols next, he’s a severely underrated part of Odd Future, plus Tyler and Earl are featured on it lol
you kinda wild to go through these back to back to back haha, love though. we do like shit we go outside x
Vol.1: Flick Your Tongue Against Your Teeth and Describe the Present
Volcanic bird enemy is also a classic
Mista thug isolation though
YES 🙌🙌
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This album got me through highschool it’ll always have a special place for me
I was in college bumping addy alone in dark pa winters this album is hard to hear again
Need Billy Woods in your life! Hiding Places!
I´ve gotten into aethiopes lately and I think a first reaction is not going to do a billy album justice. Just so much to read into, I mean he references Mengistu Haile Mariam (A former ethiopian dictator) in the first line of the album. Hiding Places is not as dense tho and has some of his best songs. Aethiopes is so good though, aoty last year?
I second this,
"Hiding Places" is one of my favorite hip-hop albums, if not albums as a whole, of all time; Kenny Segal's production is amazing, him and woods actually just dropped a second collaborative album, "Maps", today (as of 5/5), which I haven't even gotten to yet but I got Friday night off for it and I'm excited. "Brass", "Aethiopes", "Church", "History Will Absolve Me" would also be good first albums to listen to, showing how consistently great he is. I wouldn't go any deeper in the catalogue without first going through those though.
On the other hand, Bob's been dropping multiple Earl reactions, and for not only the sake of variety but mental health, it's understandable not to dig into billy just yet since his albums aren't just complete mind-fucks, but have a similar bleak aura around all of them, and I know that Bob has struggled going on a streak of reacting to experimental hip-hop, which is why he started taking more time with more organized and spaced out months to really digest as well as more fun records like "3 Feet High and Rising", which he loved if I remember correctly.
Regardless of all of this, billy woods is a very elusive figure and one of the most interesting artists I've had the pleasure to listen to, if anyone had the patience and interest to read this far into this comment, you most likely also have the patience for billy woods. Can't recommend him enough.
@@adamlagerqvist8111 I would say Hiding Places would be the best first listen for someone to be introduced to him
well, my album of the year last year was Cheat Codes by Danger Mouse and Black Thought. But Aethiopes was in the top 5.
Hiding Places is def his best. So vivid and soul-crushing, what a poet.
my favourite album of all time right here :) lovely
Very wise words bob. I’m 27 and starting to learn the ride. Prayers for your coworker, cancer is a bitch. Take care
Earls first tape is what got me back into rap in a big way when i was 15, idk if its worth listening to now but "EARL"
One of my all-time favourite albums, but you really gotta be in the mood for it.
Amazing album thanks for reacting to it
Earl is incredible. Modern day MF DOOM imo 🤷♂️
Earl and Jpegmafia mixed=MF DOOM
Very sorry to hear about your co-worker. Prayers to everyone ♥️🙏
Another good vid Bob, just wanna mention when he said "and the shit sound like a gavel when it knock" he's referring to a gun lmaooo
You had some real thought provoking points on this album 😳
A classic album in my book. Holy moly I love this
What was sick. Quality review.
Ur channles so fun
Its like were having fun to all this music together
“Kind of an *Odd* artist” ok bob I see u lmao
definitely my favorite earl project, no other album hits as hard as this at 4am
Favorite album of all time. Excited for this
Please listen to Let the Sun Talk by Mavi. Mavi is very similar to Earl. My favorite album of all time.
You gotta review Wikki. He is one of my favs next to Earl. Was so cheesed to see them on a track together when this dropped. Even some of Wikki's early catalogue with his group RATKING has such a unique sound. Wikki is a really good writer too. Not appreciated enough. Check Wikki out, you wont regret it.
One album id really like to see you do is Sheck wes - mud boy
Great reaction, this album really spoke to me back in 2015. And since you liked Wiki so much, you gotta listen to So It Goes by Ratking (what a fantastic record that is). Or some of Wiki's solo stuff. His last (Half God) is produced by Navy Blue, who's been working with Earl lately as well. Wiki is such a beast, he always tries something new with his projects.
Regardless, looking forward to the next react, as long as it's something creative.
My favorite earl album
this and his first album are my favorite rap albums ever
thank you for everything bob
One of my favorite albums
Goated album, glad you reacted.
was waiting for this one!! can't wait to hear your thoughts on this one. much love bob ❤
this album raised me
That's hilarious. I was actually that Mom/Aunt who blasted this album around the kids when they were little.🤣
Earls production is elite
Thank you bob, always great
allow him to introduce himself to the hoes , his name is EARL
fuck, the hoes all ran away he scared them
This album is legendary
Na’kel is talking about his brother who died moments before he said his verse on this song.
You should check out Solace by Earl, its a track about 15mkns or so and its amazing, has the same vibe as this :3 not saying you gotta react to it as I'm sure you're busy but its great if you ever want more of this
Edit: nvm just saw you did!! so happy
my favorite earl album
Woah it’s Earl Sweatshirt day fuck yeah
bro listened to peak 💀
You mentioned liking wikis verse, you should totally listen to ratking some time! So it goes is a near perfect album
Dude this album is the best this and some rap songs got me through some shit.
There is so much today!
Oh, we got in the vibe before the music even started.
wait till you hear Hiding Places
you gotta do faces by mac miller
never clicked faster. keep up the great work❤
just so you know on DNA earl and na kel we’re on acid when they found out na kels friend died and that’s how we got na kels verse
This Earl project clicked with me day one, I'm kind of anti-social and in my head. Really solid album from Earl and it still holds up all these years later. He kinda stuck with the shorter more concise project template for his later releases, but they kept getting weirder and more depressing not in a bad way just less accessible.
thank u for your story
Listening to this as a teen was almost necessary for me
Oh my god FINALLY
Phonte - Charity starts at home