For anyone who didn’t know, a few months before he releases SRS, his father, Keorapetse Kgositsile passed away. He was a famous South African poet who was influential in the fight for freedom in the 80s. In his earlier raps, Thebe (Earl) talks about how his dad left him when he was young with his mother, and it’s only now that he’s achieving peace of mind with him. Although he may have never got to express it to his father (he may have made up with him), the last shot of the grave with the hands symbolizes what his father did and how Thebe has achieved Peace of Mind. Purity.
I think it has a double meaning though because the words of his father could be interpreted by Earl as ironic\hollow in that his father's distance denied him that feeling of home.
Thank you so much for the context of the video! I want to actually understand the meaning of the song and cinematography but I’m kind of new to Earl. Thank you MJ :)
Earl, you'll never see this, but as a 40 yr old white dude in flyover country this track and video means a lot to me. I hope you find peace and happiness and get some comfort from the knowledge that a bunch of people you'll never know also found peace in you articulating a version of their struggle.
@@rumpelstiltskin9729 Hal Donell Williams, Jr. (born November 11, 1991), also known by his stage name Pyramid Vritra, is an American rapper and record producer from Los Angeles, California. He is currently signed to Stones Throw Records. Aside from his solo career, he is a founding member of Los Angeles-based hip hop collective Odd Future, and Atlanta-based hip hop collective Nobody Really Knows. Also, he is one half of The Jet Age of Tomorrow with Odd Future member Matt Martians.[1][2] Take this L bruh.
In an interview a couple months ago with Solange, he was talking about how he wanted to be a youth basketball coach and said, “you definitely gotta have a car, I know that. you gotta have one of them mesh bags with all the balls in it, and a place to put capri sun and trophies” Low and behold here we are, haha. 😭😭
I think I have a pretty good explanation for most of it. What I have gathered so far from watching. Heavy themes of him uncovering his roots. The prominent green and red represent his South African father (there flags colors) and "roots" hence all the plants. His mom painting him green was her passing on part of her legacy.The statues are those who have died before them and the of them memories is now stagnate. Notice how the white hoodies mirror the silhouettes to the statues, as well as the bathtub scenes progressing through time show how earl is upholding there legacy, in his own way now. The beginning where he's a youth basketball coach is earl when he has found out what he really wants and actually cares about, which is to support and provide for others, something very "motherly". I think that explains all of the motherly imagery and Earl's female doppelganger whose present throughout. The use of the statues hands I think can be explained by his line from the song solace "I got my grandmother's hands, I start to cry when I see them", they are imagery of earl channeling her "spirit" to uncover his roots. The darkest scene is certainly when he is in the room pointlessly stacking chairs listening to loud music ignoring blood on the ceiling. This is a chaotic part of Earl's life consumed by excess and apathy and focus on music above all else. The happier earl waking up to the picture only for it to be shattered by his own doings is his shattered dream which was repairing the relationship with his father who died shortly before they were going to meet. This of course is way to abstract of a film to be exact about all of it, but I think I'm in the ballpark.
ZAYWOP Tyler the weakest, but doin the best because he sold his soul immediately, frank followed but not right away so he’s in limbo, and Earl is lost not gettin any of the real recognition he deserves
Benji Franks you sound like a ducking idiot for real 😂 Tyler’s doing the best because he has the most commercial appeal don’t get it twisted he worked hard to get to the point he’s at. Frank ocean is so obviously the best thing we got from OF. he’s a once in a lifetime musician who doesn’t need commercial success because his music stand the rest of time like Stevie wonder, Ray Charles, prince. The only thing you got right in your comment was Earl 🤦🏻♂️
This is where we discovered that magic exists, Earl is not a musician, he is not a rapper, Earl is an artist, a poet of birth, for the streets, Earl defines the word aesthetic, he is the style.
This is the kind of weirdness and artsy direction I’ve been hoping earl would go in. Super excited to see what kind of “risky stuff” he’s gonna do now as an independent artist.
That Cool chill mature type of dude😎 The type of dude you can get high with on the first time and actually have fun with. The civilized type of being🤗🙃
J Cole is a combo of Lil Wayne and Bob Marley. If you don't agree your thinking too much about the how their music differs In style when that's not my point at all
This is a film by Naima Ramos-Chapman and Terence Nance, they both have their own movies but u can check out the New HBO series 'Random Acts of Flyness' if you really tryna see more of these visions
Some rap songs feels like everywhere at the end of time if it was a rap album, the old distorted samples and mundane but emotional delivery of earl really gives it the same feel.
Not really the only similar part that I’d consider is the samples even then that’s stretching it a bit cause the samples of srs and everywhere at the end of time are two different genres and the emotions they’re supposed to represent might be the same it’s conveyed in an entirely different way
@@kadenduncan1561 mmmm interesting I read something about this being like one of his first works that he was proud enough to show his mom or something like that
Wait so why doesn't this have more views. This possibly the most beautiful and devastating video I've ever seen. Earl has really shown his artistic genius
No doubt that Earl's time on his radio show (Earl Sweatshirt Stays Inside) turned his heart a little towards his dad. He was spending all that time looking into the past of great musicians, talking about their lives, and having other friends and artists nearby. Even the production on Some Rap Songs -just voice and vinyl samples shit- feels so heavily inspired by the sounds and analogue rawness of the radio mix. Cool to see a man grow. Cool to have something to listen to while you try and grow yourself.
Did anyone else listen to his radio show with Solange? 😂 He's living out his dream of being a travel basketball coach with a van in the first portion of the video 🤣 Love you, Earl❣️
Took the loss of his dad for him to find himself completely. On Doris he said he missed him but didn’t want to accept it. I’m guessing his mom helped shaped him better from a state of depression and other things that wasn’t helping him grow and now it’s his turn to take care of her and family. He now realizes how important family is. Love you Bro ✊🏾 Keep your head up
The universe right now is so in sync it's mind-blowing I have Goosebumps. My heavy addiction definitely started around when Earls first EP came out and I still remember nodding out listening to couch feeding my ego with a Golden Spoon. As of today I'm about 7 months sober from heroin and all that demonic shit and in the past few days I also came to peace with my past so hearing this just brought me so much joy. I love you Earl keep doing good man
I appreciate it and I definitely am, the journeys just beginning for me! February 23rd will be the anniversary from the worst overdose I had being found in my ex-girlfriends driveway from her nurse mom at about 12:20 in the morning with no pulse and blue for about 10 minutes, I don't know how I'm still here today. Her brother just got out of rehab a few days before that and they had Narcan on hand and they brought me back to life thank God so I know I have a purpose.... one love y'all
I like the beginning the most because it portrays rap as a ball court with Thebe on the sideline, discussing with already certified people. Him handing over the trophy is an ode to his advanced lyricism. It shows him taking the trophies back home after doing little work compared to other players/rappers. He knows he‘s earned these titles but is humble about it; hence the dusty van. When he gets inside a lot of stuff starts to happen. Without trying to dissect every detail the main message to me is that arts are embedded in Thebe’s family. The mom paints the baby and the same color shows in his soul. They care for the statue in the bath. Midway he uncovers his ROOTS using the sculpted hands symbolizing how it took time, effort and maybe even some mistakes. When he starts piling couches, notices his home bleeding etc; you can tell he’s stressed. Yet this is the only time Thebe is shown rapping. In terms of expressing himself he’s actually thriving from chaos. The sculpted hands (arts) are there for him in the end, displayed as an extension of his mother. It also foreshadows his father a bunch but out of respect I don’t want to give an opinion on that. Great video
I think I understand the white paint on the people ( I'm a coloured from South Africa ), the Xhosa tribe in South Africa uses face paint as a rite of passage. Boys entering adolescence undergo a ritual ( circumcision when their taken to the mountains ) in which their separated from the rest of their tribe and embrace the mentorship of a older man ( Earl entering adolescence and finally growing as a man ) . Among the Pondo people of South Africa spiritual leaders paint their faces and bodies white because this establishes a mystical connection between them and their ancestors ( Earl not knowing his father who is South African & his fathers side of the family...him building those relationships spiritually in the case of his father who has passed away and physical with that side of his family ). At 1:55 a political reference about the ANC ( African National Congress ) who fought against Apartheid & are the current ruling party in South Africa ( his father was apart of the ANC along with Nelson Mandela ). And in the final frame I think that is his fathers burial.
Earl I loved this. I love you for shining a light on South Africa too. You always have. Kids really look up to you out here. It would mean the world to so many aspiring young creatives if you come back to the motherland and gave them something to hold onto. It’s good to remember home Earl, sometimes it also doesn’t kill to visit.
This reminds me of Vince staples music video called Prima Dona, what's interesting is Vince's video was showing the hell that you need to go through for the industry, and the price it has on your soul/sanity.. Earls is coming from the perspective of someone who already made it out of the industry, becoming free of you will. And cutting ties from his sins of the past. Nobody told me I could leave? Fingers on my soul, this a 23 , blood in the water I was walking in my sleep, blood on my father I forgot another dream, I was playing with magic high blessings in my sleeve. Sounds like Earl realizes the magnitude of the position he is in, especially in the vulcher riddled music industry. and uses that knowledge to better himself before its too late. Truly a beautiful piece of art. Thank you Earl you're a huge inspiration of mine for many years.
I like your analysis but I don't think it necessarily has to do with the music industry... most of the guys from OF never really had industry problems I feel like. They were on the outside doing their own thing, making what they really wanted to make. I think shattered dreams has a lot to do with handling his depression. "Ain't nobody tell me I could leave" has to do with when he hurt his leg, he thought that he was obligated to do everything because it was his job. But he could've very easily just walked away to save himself the struggle. I also think that line is a comment on his tendency to blame his short comings on others. "Bad things happened, why didn't someone tell me I could leave?" As if it was someone else's responsibility to care for him (like a mother...ya know, all the feminine symbolism in this video?) I think a lot of this album has to do with appreciating the things people do for you, rather than expecting them. (Mother painting him green, the color of youth and energy. His father was bathing him in the tub)
xP1HxBOYICK I mean they definitely had pressures from the industry, look at how Tyler blew up and there was a struggle to maintain exposure on the rest of the OF members when they were more or less pushed for some mainstream cash in shit which Earl was less than eager to do.
I think i’d have to disagree with you because earl has stated that he doesn’t care about the position he’s in and he just wants to spread love. If anything “cutting ties from his sins” is showed more in IDLSIDGO. In this album I feel like he’s finally coped with his depression and wants the world to know that he’s ok. Earl is a goat 🐐 regardless of what you take from this masterpiece.
I think the meaning of this video has to do with Earl battling his place as a male role model whilst battling addiction. We see himself talking to his girl self. This could symbolize that Earl is in tune with his feminine side more than what others see him as. It is what he sees himself as. Giving that he was raised mostly by his mother after the divorce of his parents and the photograph of him and his dad falling and breaking, represents his poor relationship that he had with his pops. He was also very young in the photo so it could be a symbol of regret and lost hope. That that bond they shared was shattered when his parents split. Also the repetition of the line "why didn't someone tell me i was bleeding" could represent his battle with addiction. His rise in fame at an early age alienated himself from who he loved dearly. I love you Earl like a brother. Best poet of this generation.
Just something to kind of add, during the seen of Earl waking to seeing the picture of him and his dad shattering the song "Shattered Dreams" was playing. So yea, I can see it being just a thematic choice to convey that fractured relatiinship of Earl and his dad.
@@needkolas I wouldn't say that. It definitely has that element. But it's also about him discovering his father through his art. It's why he uncovers the grown man with the sculpture's hands instead of his own. The open casket with his father's art (sculpted hands) still feeling very much alive. But while he is uncovering his father's art. He knows how much his father's and mother's art impacted him when the baby is being painted. That's just my two cents from watching it one time.
Sean Thompson hmm I see that but I also feel he is embracing his heritage and finding his own roots. White paint is washed away and he’s in his own skin... white hands in a casket that have shaped him...
Also notice it’s like a rebirth... when he was in the bed it was the same sheet as the baby... he finds himself self in the tub without that painted skin. The hands cover the ears of the sculpture which shows blackness is being deafened, after that scene earls ears are being washed and cleansed. The video then ends with those same hands being in the past. The hands of the sculptors. Earl has been reborn and he is secure in his own skin and identity.
This is tribute to his late father 'bra willie' that was a famous poet and writer in South Africa hence the ending and member of the ANC (South African Government). The man under the leaves is a depiction of his dad and the woman in dreads is a depiction of his mom.
I Shed Some Tears When I Saw How He Portrayed His Parents And Shed Even More Tears When The Picture Fell And Broke And I remembered The Passing Of His Father And The Effect It Had On Him. Wonderfully Put Together Earl And My Late Condolences
For the first time ever This is the first music video I cannot for the life of me decipher It’s insanely in depth and meaningful but I just can’t really comprehend what earl is trying to tell us Dude is so intelligent. And judging by the comments I can see people have so many different opinions on what it means I guess that’s what earl wanted
Idk my feelings at least from the sweeping and bathing were that the creative process is a sort of cleansing or shedding like a haircut. The images of his family led me to believe this music is. Connected to his sense of family and growth. The beginning led me to believe that he feels the same way about his career as an artist , standing on the side line as children play a game he can't completely control or influence , the music stops and he just goes home.
On first watch I resonated with the ending, it made something click in my head as to why they were holding these plaster hands. The way I decipher these hands is past generations, ancestry. We all come from a long line of of conception, we're predecessors, without them we don't have each other, no matter what it's worth. And it's almost like he wants to lay to rest all the pain his ancestors "Felt" (hence the hands) by giving them a proper burial, a beautiful casket. There's so much to this video it made my eyes watery, esp. seeing how happy earl was with the kids.
A lot of the visuals in the music video are stuff from his fathers poems. If you go through his popular ones, you can find out the symbolism of the hands and other things as well.
Zay Flacko wow dude Gay Flakka, the music video deciphering wizard, finally met his match. Other than this one time, he's deciphered pretty much every music video out there. Maybe it's just a shitty video
DEFINITION OF ART- the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power.
This is America does have a message but there's no real way of comparing the two. Gambino was being very transparent about the message and managed to cleverly work it into the video as well. Earl hear is just throwing up a bunch of imagery and letting the viewers interpret it whichever way they want. It's only as deep as you want it to be. There is no comparing the two as they're too different.
You and Mac Miller.. Tyler, Vince, and Kenderick. All equals in my eyes. You've helped me realize things in myself. Mac my self-respect. Kendrick my potential. Vince my bravery. Tyler my creativity. you my self awareness, introspection, and humility. Thank you Earl, from the bottom of my heart. I'm gonna do my best from now on.
No one would know for sure but Thebe but this is what I interpreted. Obviously the basketball scene is simple enough him doing something positive for his life, then he goes home and you see him walk past the statue that at first I thought was a female but later in the tub scene you see it turns into him. It also resembles him a little. Anyway the scene starting at 2:10 with who I would assume to be his mother in front of what looks like to me like a stone vagina does a ceremony of birthing Earl. He is stone which I think represents his cold detached nature, then we go on to the white room which I like to think as Earl’s headspace. Here Earl is human but with green eyes (maybe his demonic nature?). Then we see what I interpret as his father covered in vines. Earl tries to uncover his father maybe representing rekindling their relationship or maybe just his memory, but his efforts are in vain. He doesn’t use his actual hands but stone hands that could represent... a lot of things maybe how people want to show love but are afraid to get hurt so they put on a facade. The stone hands are big theme. Simultaneously little girl in the house tries to uncover Earl while he is lost trying to uncover his father which is ironic. He has someone who loves him trying to uncover him (my interpretation). Again we see Earls mother figure helping to uncover his father but it’s in vain he ends up covered again. When he does get him what he says at 4:17 is significant. Then you see the mother washing him until he’s no longer stone but later she’s not there anymore. At 4:43 you see stone hands in prayer. Earl fans would know he’s atheist/agnostic but his Doris album cover and some song lyrics would hint that at one point he had faith. This easter egg may hint that he has a string of hope left. The following scene with the furniture and the downstairs Earl vs the upstairs Earl to me suggest that the house is also the dwellings of Earls mind perhaps. I probably don’t understand that one. I probably don’t understand most of this but when his father picture breaks he thanks those who cared about him through his depression, and he buries the stone “helping hands.” With what I assume to be his dad’s national flag on the casket. God bless you all don’t lose faith.
Enjoyed reading your thoughts on this. With regards to the scene where he's being painted by his mom and then appears with the same color in his eyes, it could be indicating that his perspective from birth was colored/tinted by the way his mom painted the world to be. Until we reach a certain age, many of us adopt our parents' worldview, and perhaps his inherited perspective had an impact on the way he viewed his dad. Also, the hands from the sculpture seem to represent the way we interact with others a lot of the time - through a facade like you said, in other words we aren't using our true nature to communicate with others (or even the memory of people aka Thebe's dad), including family. Anyways, I think this video is pure art and I doubt he would ever explain the meaning because whatever it means to him could be different for someone else and I think that's what makes this video very special
you think the hands being white, and stone cold has anything to do with not being able to get to the heart/cleanse the soul completely because to do so would mean unlearning what white supremacy has taught/forced/perpetuated as common sense. Therefore the white hands are reasonable logical rather than emotional. That’s why the gentleman washing the statue and earl is using his own hands...you can feel how tenderly he cleanses each. It takes getting to the core of ones own humanity in order to touch others, not just brush away the static energy or brush.
im not a devoted fan of earl but in a recent interview covered by pitchfork he said having an oppressive childhood, in part because of his mother's strictness which could been represented by her painting him. that was one of the very few things i got to understand or put in some connection. thanks for your interpretations PS: i wanted to point somewhere in the comments that i was thinking that him and frank ocean coincided just before someone who seems to be frank appeared at 5:03 which was really mind blowing Edit: seen a comment that says that it's the character on coronus the terminator video by flying lotus, but even though it's really similar i haven't seen the exact scene
I thought about this more as far as the vines/brush...okay so whiteness/settler-colonialism is based on “discovering”, but in this ‘discovery’ the basis of comparison becomes western-European society (see Hegel and Gobineau’s construction of the ‘Black other’). This seems to be represented through the removal of the vegetation which is in essence hiding Blackness from the gaze of the white man. This might be why the gentleman has his back facing the camera, for looking at him in the face would require humanizing him, which is not possible under the gaze of whiteness, hence why Black folks’ faces are cast in white (like the marble statues of the Renaissance), it is the only way for western-euro-american folk to accept Black peoples. Notice his face is not painted though, so it is as if his back is turned to preserve/conceal himself and his tradition, and he is a victim/subject of the white colonizer’s objectification/desire unbeknownst to him as he sits...then connect that to the education system in present day which does not give the tools to properly know this, or even deconstruct it, so the tools are white hands, or a white western point of view (DEATH TO THE WHITE HANDS)...as far as the gold necklace on the gentleman’s back, could that possibly represent how gold was taken off the backs of Indigenous folk?
Real earl fans where you at? Edit: shit knew something was up when i saw 100 likes and 30 views. I know macs looking down smiling right now. Love ya earl
This album came out when I was going through a hard time with my fathers side of the family. I can't thank you enough for the parallelism even though its still so much farther to go. Thank you Earl. ❤
I love the internet..being able to connect..with others...see shit other humans do.. Respect those. Where its do. Respect asf to this human..dope piece.
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For anyone who didn’t know, a few months before he releases SRS, his father, Keorapetse Kgositsile passed away. He was a famous South African poet who was influential in the fight for freedom in the 80s. In his earlier raps, Thebe (Earl) talks about how his dad left him when he was young with his mother, and it’s only now that he’s achieving peace of mind with him. Although he may have never got to express it to his father (he may have made up with him), the last shot of the grave with the hands symbolizes what his father did and how Thebe has achieved Peace of Mind. Purity.
thanks michael jordan
I think it has a double meaning though because the words of his father could be interpreted by Earl as ironic\hollow in that his father's distance denied him that feeling of home.
Thank you for telling the new OF fans who weren’t around the OG pure OF clout when Earl Sweatshirt got sent to somoa by his mom
they made up btw, at the very least they got back together before his father passed
Thank you so much for the context of the video! I want to actually understand the meaning of the song and cinematography but I’m kind of new to Earl. Thank you MJ :)
Earl is def one of the best rappers of this generation
Apex Earl Sweatshirt
Kendrick Lamar
J. Cole
Big K.R.I.T
Isaiah Rashad
That’s my top 5
To Eazy earl sweatshirt, kaan, hopsin, token and Chris webby
adolf shitler sorry but hopsin corny ass?
adolf shitler 😂😂😂
adolf shitler you must be white to list these corny white rappers nobody knows about. (Yes I’m including hospin as white for obvious reasons)
the only thing that is more beautiful than Earl's flow is his heart
a wholesome comment
Cardiac flow what you are hearing in my material is heart.
THIS COMMENT
Fishwhisperer03 real fan right here this some old shit haha
only thing gayer than those words is your love for him
Earl, you'll never see this, but as a 40 yr old white dude in flyover country this track and video means a lot to me. I hope you find peace and happiness and get some comfort from the knowledge that a bunch of people you'll never know also found peace in you articulating a version of their struggle.
very well said. Ive been playing this non stop in Beijing. His struggle has helped me deal with mine for many years 👍
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Where’s flyover county
Lol probably Indiana
That fact and I just turned 18 today so I feel and relate
Earl really put his whole album in one video
Talent
Vince Staples also did it
He wanted to release the whole album as one song
@@zaybskii3634 well that's how I listen to it anyway so that's perfect.
not even the whole album
Odd Future gave birth to three different type of genius, I have no words...
Tyler, Earl and who?
Frank ocean
Domo Genesis, Hodgy Beats, Pyramid Vitra are underated members.
The last one was literally ahead of all of them at one point
@@kraftmadiks3575 Who tf is pyramid vitra? sounds like you slipped your own corny name into the mix
@@rumpelstiltskin9729
Hal Donell Williams, Jr. (born November 11, 1991), also known by his stage name Pyramid Vritra, is an American rapper and record producer from Los Angeles, California. He is currently signed to Stones Throw Records. Aside from his solo career, he is a founding member of Los Angeles-based hip hop collective Odd Future, and Atlanta-based hip hop collective Nobody Really Knows. Also, he is one half of The Jet Age of Tomorrow with Odd Future member Matt Martians.[1][2]
Take this L bruh.
In an interview a couple months ago with Solange, he was talking about how he wanted to be a youth basketball coach and said, “you definitely gotta have a car, I know that. you gotta have one of them mesh bags with all the balls in it, and a place to put capri sun and trophies” Low and behold here we are, haha. 😭😭
What interview is that?
@@jessfern95 th-cam.com/video/c_bePy5Y8q4/w-d-xo.html
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He mentioned wanting to be a basketball coach in the Red Bull radio episode with solange
Thank you both!
Dude I totally remember that lol
I think I have a pretty good explanation for most of it. What I have gathered so far from watching. Heavy themes of him uncovering his roots. The prominent green and red represent his South African father (there flags colors) and "roots" hence all the plants. His mom painting him green was her passing on part of her legacy.The statues are those who have died before them and the of them memories is now stagnate. Notice how the white hoodies mirror the silhouettes to the statues, as well as the bathtub scenes progressing through time show how earl is upholding there legacy, in his own way now. The beginning where he's a youth basketball coach is earl when he has found out what he really wants and actually cares about, which is to support and provide for others, something very "motherly". I think that explains all of the motherly imagery and Earl's female doppelganger whose present throughout. The use of the statues hands I think can be explained by his line from the song solace "I got my grandmother's hands, I start to cry when I see them", they are imagery of earl channeling her "spirit" to uncover his roots. The darkest scene is certainly when he is in the room pointlessly stacking chairs listening to loud music ignoring blood on the ceiling. This is a chaotic part of Earl's life consumed by excess and apathy and focus on music above all else. The happier earl waking up to the picture only for it to be shattered by his own doings is his shattered dream which was repairing the relationship with his father who died shortly before they were going to meet. This of course is way to abstract of a film to be exact about all of it, but I think I'm in the ballpark.
Trevor Leach most underrated comment I have ever read on TH-cam
Bro you got a good brain bro, I like your interpretation. 🙏🏿
On point
my brutha
Thank you because I can’t really understand what he is saying and when I didn’t know the explanation it was pretty creepy
No more record label earl is a free spirit no slave on my soul.
Fingers on my soul this a 23
This is how dreams be like most times
A Trashcan fast paced, lots of info in a few seconds, and very confusing. I agree
Shattered dreams
@@neuro7046 OH SHIT you're onto something, a lot of bits and pieces of a dream that you gotta somehow sort together. Good way to put it.
Brandon Johnson yup🤙🏾
The fact that we all could relate to this the moment we read the comment speaks a lot.
For a trashchan, you're doing a good job, i tell you what.
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I hate it when people call this type of stuff weird I think it is art and genious
they could never undrestand
@@froobert1 yup
No one said that
@@alo9240 yes some people be hating on earl and calling him weird bro
This is an interesting short film. Congratulations to Earl for rediscovering himself in a way. Glad to see him doing a little better!
Legend gets thrown out too much but Earl is really a legend and hes only 24yrs old crazy
Fax
Facts
Hollow6Below
hella young
But old enough to feel depressed his whole life
Real talk
He's the youngest old man
Seeing him rap Azucar and smiling gives me the best chills in the world
So insane OF gave us earl, Tyler , and frank . 3 generational talents from one collective
ZAYWOP Tyler the weakest, but doin the best because he sold his soul immediately, frank followed but not right away so he’s in limbo, and Earl is lost not gettin any of the real recognition he deserves
Benji Franks dude wtf are you talking about
Syd?
Benji Franks you sound like a ducking idiot for real 😂 Tyler’s doing the best because he has the most commercial appeal don’t get it twisted he worked hard to get to the point he’s at. Frank ocean is so obviously the best thing we got from OF. he’s a once in a lifetime musician who doesn’t need commercial success because his music stand the rest of time like Stevie wonder, Ray Charles, prince. The only thing you got right in your comment was Earl 🤦🏻♂️
@@benjifranks8360 are u high
This is where we discovered that magic exists, Earl is not a musician, he is not a rapper, Earl is an artist, a poet of birth, for the streets, Earl defines the word aesthetic, he is the style.
I swear Earl is a preacher on a beat
i swear people can moke on you for this opinion but rn its just truth boi
But rappers are poets, rap just being short for "rhythm and poetry". And the rhythmic part makes them musicians as well, so yeaaah.
Beautifully worded "a poet of birth"
Cringe as fuck
this is a masterpiece of a music video
ISAIAHthePLAYAH hey Isaiah wassup
that's a shirt film...
So you understand it? What does it mean? I'm lost.
ISAIAHthePLAYAH what up Isaiah lmao
Reza A same lmao
This is the kind of weirdness and artsy direction I’ve been hoping earl would go in. Super excited to see what kind of “risky stuff” he’s gonna do now as an independent artist.
Captain VaNNNNN hes signed to Sony and Columbia but I love the artsy earl too
@@Ryanalv Tan Cressida is his label under Columbia and Sony, so he isn't completely controlled creatively.
Emanuel Winther if that’s the case I’m surprised that let him put out a project like some rap songs lol.
Ryanalv his contract under Sony just finished tho..he’s a free agent now.
AKIRA
Feet of Clay and Some Rap Songs really got me through tough ass periods in my life. Now I look back at them candidly. Thanks Thebe.
He stopped me from inflicting self unalivement. Grief got me to a better mindset.
Feet of clay enjoyer
When rappers grow their hair out, they obtain super human intellect.
That Cool chill mature type of dude😎 The type of dude you can get high with on the first time and actually have fun with. The civilized type of being🤗🙃
Kundalini Energy.
This shit is real. 21 Savage grew the dreads and became British.
@@TheShadow2400 chiiill 😂💀
J Cole is a combo of Lil Wayne and Bob Marley. If you don't agree your thinking too much about the how their music differs In style when that's not my point at all
if earl were to make a movie it would be crazy judging from his visions in this video
Stbrn Sal he has a good mind
That’s really all you need to keep goin
This is a film by Naima Ramos-Chapman and Terence Nance, they both have their own movies but u can check out the New HBO series 'Random Acts of Flyness' if you really tryna see more of these visions
There was probably someone else that directed it tbh. I assume he had some input tho.
Stbrn Sal he didn’t direct this he was only in it with his music
Earl Sweatshirt has evolved into Earl Jacket.
Sounds too provocative!
😂💯🤣🤦🏾
@@FeliX-TobiYahs-C It gets the people going(please tell me you get the reference)
@@daydayKofi it's from the skating movie right?
@@rondariuschandler5927 right lol
Dude ya gotta let him learn greif before evolving.
Some rap songs feels like everywhere at the end of time if it was a rap album, the old distorted samples and mundane but emotional delivery of earl really gives it the same feel.
Not really the only similar part that I’d consider is the samples even then that’s stretching it a bit cause the samples of srs and everywhere at the end of time are two different genres and the emotions they’re supposed to represent might be the same it’s conveyed in an entirely different way
This needs to be shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art
Is this why Earl went independent?
Cause if so.
*I'M ALL FOR IT*
Hippo yeah in his behind the scenes video , he kinda explains it th-cam.com/video/4lV_b0qZ6MQ/w-d-xo.html
@@JOYOFJON Still can't get over that you do this to everybody
Hippo what you mean?
@@JOYOFJON 😂😂😂 Fucker
Staakcs fuck you, bruh
Damn he even credited the basketball coach
coach is in it throughout too
Earl has always made my day better after I listen to his music
as ur supposed to lol
soundcloud.com/user-625644983/kill-my-pride
Earl Popovich
Understanding thebe is like understanding yourself
We are thebe, thebe is us
He finally went outside
he been out
Lol. he said in interview that when he made I dont like shit, it was ironically the most busy time in his life
He's also managed to do shit
😂😂😂like shit
So we all gonna just pretend we understand this masterpiece fully yeah ok
@dbrayx9 😂 facts
We don't but let people decipher and discuss. It's art bro who cares. People like u are annoying
jay ok wait for genius to do that for ya
Hell naw bruh idek lol
Big WhiteBoat You just took the person you replied to out of context. And your reply in ignorant af.
The picture of him and his father made me think a lot of the meaning of the video. Then the casket scene. Love you Earl 🖤
umm oh yeah yeah
Idk if it's the picture but I'm sure I've seen you in like 7 different videos today
@suero Nvm, it's just your pfp I've seen about 20 times now.
i love how the earl fan base is so damn wholesome
Just wanted to thank Earl for releasing a masterpiece in 2018.
how do you fuck up the year
Friedland Research I think he meant the album
@@Seth_Williams ah, i mispoke
@@friedlandresearch5511 no i think he meant the video w the song, in which the video just debut today... in 2019... lol
@@aliasanew3398 nah... He meant the album... Which all the songs in this video are from. Which dropped in 2018.
i got my grandmommas hands... i start to cry when i see em. these the times i need her the most cause i feel defeated...
Earl Hoodie in the 5th dimension, Earl Sweatshirt in the 4th and 3 only gets better with time
I only get better with time *
It’s a 3
FREE SMOKE hmm pretty sure it’s a reference to Azucar
“I got my grandmama’s hands. Start to cry when I see them.”
My absolute favorite project by him...why isn't it officially released?
sky bound zoo cause he made it for his mom
@@kadenduncan1561 mmmm interesting I read something about this being like one of his first works that he was proud enough to show his mom or something like that
what's the time stamp on this?
@@josephsantana2531 that line is from a beautiful project called solace
Been on Earl since Earl, and Earl evolved beautifully.
so did tyler
Earl
@@493HZ Earl
@@gharrireal Earl
@@alecbarrett1 EARL > tyler
No cap.
this video is a third of the album
Dat ur deadass everywhere💀💀
You are a TH-cam Commenter Legend
chill justin y #3
Dat it’s not a bad thing though. SRS was his best project by FAR
Dat fancy seeing u here
I’m happy to see Earl being active
Wait so why doesn't this have more views. This possibly the most beautiful and devastating video I've ever seen. Earl has really shown his artistic genius
Yes Earl it’s so good to see you smiling again. Stay strong man.
No doubt that Earl's time on his radio show (Earl Sweatshirt Stays Inside) turned his heart a little towards his dad. He was spending all that time looking into the past of great musicians, talking about their lives, and having other friends and artists nearby. Even the production on Some Rap Songs -just voice and vinyl samples shit- feels so heavily inspired by the sounds and analogue rawness of the radio mix. Cool to see a man grow. Cool to have something to listen to while you try and grow yourself.
THIS.
Did anyone else listen to his radio show with Solange? 😂 He's living out his dream of being a travel basketball coach with a van in the first portion of the video 🤣
Love you, Earl❣️
Came to see if anyone else remembered
Ramon Rivera me too😂😂
lmao big fax
only the O G earl fans would remember👌🏿🙅🏿♂️
This dude is the best rapper alive
POPPA CALLED ME CHIEF//GOTTA KEEP IT BRIEF😭
You inspire me much more than you'll ever know ❤
Who remembers the Solange interview when he said he wanted to be youth basketball coach
NR L probably a few hundred listened to that hour long mix full of slaps and random convos but I caught that
That's what I was thinking at that first part. It was really sweet to see
easter egg
Damn I was looking for this neighbors heard me laughing when this shit loaded
NR L it made me so happy he had the bag of balls and the minivan and everything 😂😂
1:50 cold summers being one of my favourite songs made this even more of a trip
Took the loss of his dad for him to find himself completely. On Doris he said he missed him but didn’t want to accept it. I’m guessing his mom helped shaped him better from a state of depression and other things that wasn’t helping him grow and now it’s his turn to take care of her and family. He now realizes how important family is. Love you Bro ✊🏾 Keep your head up
This man been wanting to be a youth basketball coach for a minute
Erik Anderson it’s a metaphor bro
adolf shitler what’s it mean then
The universe right now is so in sync it's mind-blowing I have Goosebumps. My heavy addiction definitely started around when Earls first EP came out and I still remember nodding out listening to couch feeding my ego with a Golden Spoon. As of today I'm about 7 months sober from heroin and all that demonic shit and in the past few days I also came to peace with my past so hearing this just brought me so much joy. I love you Earl keep doing good man
Sir Tsar Good on you man
good for you bro fr keep going
I appreciate it and I definitely am, the journeys just beginning for me! February 23rd will be the anniversary from the worst overdose I had being found in my ex-girlfriends driveway from her nurse mom at about 12:20 in the morning with no pulse and blue for about 10 minutes, I don't know how I'm still here today. Her brother just got out of rehab a few days before that and they had Narcan on hand and they brought me back to life thank God so I know I have a purpose.... one love y'all
proud of you man! keep it up
Keep up the good work, it can be struggle but you are better than that shit bro. stay positive and keep doing what you are doing.
I still come back to this every couple months and it brings tears to my eyes. Can’t exactly explain why but it’s beautiful
Only reason I didn’t click straight away cause I didn’t believe my eyes, love you earl
Facts that made me laugh bro :)
I like the beginning the most because it portrays rap as a ball court with Thebe on the sideline, discussing with already certified people. Him handing over the trophy is an ode to his advanced lyricism. It shows him taking the trophies back home after doing little work compared to other players/rappers. He knows he‘s earned these titles but is humble about it; hence the dusty van. When he gets inside a lot of stuff starts to happen. Without trying to dissect every detail the main message to me is that arts are embedded in Thebe’s family. The mom paints the baby and the same color shows in his soul. They care for the statue in the bath. Midway he uncovers his ROOTS using the sculpted hands symbolizing how it took time, effort and maybe even some mistakes. When he starts piling couches, notices his home bleeding etc; you can tell he’s stressed. Yet this is the only time Thebe is shown rapping. In terms of expressing himself he’s actually thriving from chaos. The sculpted hands (arts) are there for him in the end, displayed as an extension of his mother. It also foreshadows his father a bunch but out of respect I don’t want to give an opinion on that. Great video
I think I understand the white paint on the people ( I'm a coloured from South Africa ), the Xhosa tribe in South Africa uses face paint as a rite of passage. Boys entering adolescence undergo a ritual ( circumcision when their taken to the mountains ) in which their separated from the rest of their tribe and embrace the mentorship of a older man ( Earl entering adolescence and finally growing as a man ) . Among the Pondo people of South Africa spiritual leaders paint their faces and bodies white because this establishes a mystical connection between them and their ancestors ( Earl not knowing his father who is South African & his fathers side of the family...him building those relationships spiritually in the case of his father who has passed away and physical with that side of his family ). At 1:55 a political reference about the ANC ( African National Congress ) who fought against Apartheid & are the current ruling party in South Africa ( his father was apart of the ANC along with Nelson Mandela ). And in the final frame I think that is his fathers burial.
Jaryd Larsen I’m also coloured South African .... earl is amazing bru
@@BrandonMunsonakaMrTH-camr his one of the best lyricist and creators of this generation.
thanks for the KNOWLEDGE brother
Jaryd Larsen Brilliant comment, thank you.
What the fuck are u talking about. This was almost as confusing as the video itself
Odd future did indeed have an odd future
Earl I loved this. I love you for shining a light on South Africa too. You always have. Kids really look up to you out here. It would mean the world to so many aspiring young creatives if you come back to the motherland and gave them something to hold onto. It’s good to remember home Earl, sometimes it also doesn’t kill to visit.
Awe homie! Support all the way from S.A. I SWEAR THIS GUY IS THE BEST RAPPER IN THE GAME RIGHT NOW
Earl is actually original, that's why I follow him
No idea is original
As respectfully as I can put it, he goes by Thebe now. At the beginning it says his album was made by Thebe but he's just more known as Earl.
MF DOOM clone = Not original
@@illminds. He's definitely inspired by DOOM, but imo he's pretty far from being a clone.
No one cares
This was so much fun making with you
Definitely the coolest artist I’ve encountered thus far 🦋
🦋
They look alike. I thought they were sibling.
@@jlamechnicholson1326 yeah i did too honestly
Thanks for helping to make this.I enjoyed it alot.
I was wondering who was female earl
One of my fav videos on the Internet
I'm glad to watch Earl grow as an artist.
This reminds me of Vince staples music video called Prima Dona, what's interesting is Vince's video was showing the hell that you need to go through for the industry, and the price it has on your soul/sanity.. Earls is coming from the perspective of someone who already made it out of the industry, becoming free of you will. And cutting ties from his sins of the past. Nobody told me I could leave? Fingers on my soul, this a 23 , blood in the water I was walking in my sleep, blood on my father I forgot another dream, I was playing with magic high blessings in my sleeve.
Sounds like Earl realizes the magnitude of the position he is in, especially in the vulcher riddled music industry. and uses that knowledge to better himself before its too late. Truly a beautiful piece of art. Thank you Earl you're a huge inspiration of mine for many years.
dude did u mean vulture lmao u have a point tho
I like your analysis but I don't think it necessarily has to do with the music industry... most of the guys from OF never really had industry problems I feel like. They were on the outside doing their own thing, making what they really wanted to make. I think shattered dreams has a lot to do with handling his depression. "Ain't nobody tell me I could leave" has to do with when he hurt his leg, he thought that he was obligated to do everything because it was his job. But he could've very easily just walked away to save himself the struggle. I also think that line is a comment on his tendency to blame his short comings on others. "Bad things happened, why didn't someone tell me I could leave?" As if it was someone else's responsibility to care for him (like a mother...ya know, all the feminine symbolism in this video?)
I think a lot of this album has to do with appreciating the things people do for you, rather than expecting them. (Mother painting him green, the color of youth and energy. His father was bathing him in the tub)
xP1HxBOYICK
I mean they definitely had pressures from the industry, look at how Tyler blew up and there was a struggle to maintain exposure on the rest of the OF members when they were more or less pushed for some mainstream cash in shit which Earl was less than eager to do.
wrong lyrics
I think i’d have to disagree with you because earl has stated that he doesn’t care about the position he’s in and he just wants to spread love. If anything “cutting ties from his sins” is showed more in IDLSIDGO. In this album I feel like he’s finally coped with his depression and wants the world to know that he’s ok. Earl is a goat 🐐 regardless of what you take from this masterpiece.
I think the meaning of this video has to do with Earl battling his place as a male role model whilst battling addiction. We see himself talking to his girl self. This could symbolize that Earl is in tune with his feminine side more than what others see him as. It is what he sees himself as. Giving that he was raised mostly by his mother after the divorce of his parents and the photograph of him and his dad falling and breaking, represents his poor relationship that he had with his pops. He was also very young in the photo so it could be a symbol of regret and lost hope. That that bond they shared was shattered when his parents split. Also the repetition of the line "why didn't someone tell me i was bleeding" could represent his battle with addiction. His rise in fame at an early age alienated himself from who he loved dearly. I love you Earl like a brother. Best poet of this generation.
Beautiful breakdown my brother, I think the only people who can grasp how good of a poet Earl is are the people who have or still write
crack or tweak
y’all sound like a mo fucking cult
@@ironpoop7279 I would guess some ppl can't grasp it and can say that but you just have to have that type of mindset you either are or not
Just something to kind of add, during the seen of Earl waking to seeing the picture of him and his dad shattering the song "Shattered Dreams" was playing. So yea, I can see it being just a thematic choice to convey that fractured relatiinship of Earl and his dad.
SRS is my favorite album in existence
mad respect for the follow through of his basketball coach idea. i think he was talking about it with solange on red bull radio
I love the creativity in this. Artistry at its finest
this is trippy but I know there is a deeper meaning to this
it's about how our environment shapes us
@@needkolas I wouldn't say that. It definitely has that element. But it's also about him discovering his father through his art. It's why he uncovers the grown man with the sculpture's hands instead of his own. The open casket with his father's art (sculpted hands) still feeling very much alive. But while he is uncovering his father's art. He knows how much his father's and mother's art impacted him when the baby is being painted.
That's just my two cents from watching it one time.
Mike Hunt means oh yeah yeah
Sean Thompson hmm I see that but I also feel he is embracing his heritage and finding his own roots. White paint is washed away and he’s in his own skin... white hands in a casket that have shaped him...
Also notice it’s like a rebirth... when he was in the bed it was the same sheet as the baby... he finds himself self in the tub without that painted skin. The hands cover the ears of the sculpture which shows blackness is being deafened, after that scene earls ears are being washed and cleansed. The video then ends with those same hands being in the past. The hands of the sculptors. Earl has been reborn and he is secure in his own skin and identity.
This is tribute to his late father 'bra willie' that was a famous poet and writer in South Africa hence the ending and member of the ANC (South African Government). The man under the leaves is a depiction of his dad and the woman in dreads is a depiction of his mom.
I ain't never clicked so fast
Jango Fett sameeeeee
On God yo
Hello fellow trooper.
@@darthvader6454 a critikal viewer and a Earl fan. True man of culture
@@AndreastheMartyr Yessir
I Shed Some Tears When I Saw How He Portrayed His Parents And Shed Even More Tears When The Picture Fell And Broke And I remembered The Passing Of His Father And The Effect It Had On Him.
Wonderfully Put Together Earl And My Late Condolences
Earl sweatshirt is the best no cap.
oo yuh fr fr
art. timeless.
Earl finally made a music video ✊🏽👀👀
short film* and it's amazing
@@loveino1269 indeed,it's amazing 💯💯
nah he came with something better
Nicolas M This. It’s like an all ecompassing music vid for most of the record.
Basically a album music video
For the first time ever
This is the first music video I cannot for the life of me decipher
It’s insanely in depth and meaningful but I just can’t really comprehend what earl is trying to tell us
Dude is so intelligent.
And judging by the comments I can see people have so many different opinions on what it means
I guess that’s what earl wanted
Idk my feelings at least from the sweeping and bathing were that the creative process is a sort of cleansing or shedding like a haircut. The images of his family led me to believe this music is. Connected to his sense of family and growth. The beginning led me to believe that he feels the same way about his career as an artist , standing on the side line as children play a game he can't completely control or influence , the music stops and he just goes home.
On first watch I resonated with the ending, it made something click in my head as to why they were holding these plaster hands. The way I decipher these hands is past generations, ancestry. We all come from a long line of of conception, we're predecessors, without them we don't have each other, no matter what it's worth. And it's almost like he wants to lay to rest all the pain his ancestors "Felt" (hence the hands) by giving them a proper burial, a beautiful casket. There's so much to this video it made my eyes watery, esp. seeing how happy earl was with the kids.
Joshua Harris That’s deep I agree
A lot of the visuals in the music video are stuff from his fathers poems. If you go through his popular ones, you can find out the symbolism of the hands and other things as well.
Zay Flacko wow dude Gay Flakka, the music video deciphering wizard, finally met his match. Other than this one time, he's deciphered pretty much every music video out there.
Maybe it's just a shitty video
The video represents his dad a lot. It's been a tough few years but earl a strong one. I will forever love and support Earl's music.
odd future ending was the best thing to happen to odd future
It was the best and the worse thing ever
jasper and taco and errol chillin and syd tha kid in tha internet but the rest of the lesser famous members fell off
Tyrese Townsend domo genesis benefited too in my opinion
What happen to Hodgy?
Mace Levens irrelevancy is what happened
This isn't werid. This is ART
Mimiyo it can be both
Something that is weird isn’t automatically art and art isn’t always weird
oh but you're the same person that says death grips is weird and not art
DEFINITION OF ART-
the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power.
Nigga this is hella weird.
@@buzzerking just because you don't understand it?
This album means so much to me
Same I connected with it on a deeper level
Lol you dont understand this shit dont pretend you do douche
rest in peace to your pops man you're a great guy that's a genius muscian
HAD TO REVISIT THIS MASTERPIECE 🇿🇦🙌🏿
Childish Gambino: This Is America has a deep message.
Earl Sweatshirt: Hold my beer.
😂😂😂
This is America does have a message but there's no real way of comparing the two. Gambino was being very transparent about the message and managed to cleverly work it into the video as well. Earl hear is just throwing up a bunch of imagery and letting the viewers interpret it whichever way they want. It's only as deep as you want it to be. There is no comparing the two as they're too different.
Hung Lo It’s a joke. Jesus Christ
@@malcolmlegend6703 God forbid I provide any meaningful input. Jesus Christ go clean your room child.
Hung Lo maybe I will... 😐
The OF top trilogy has been so inspiring to watch through these years. Big ups to them and all they’ve done for music
"I got my grandmother hands, I start to cry when I see 'em"
Petrus Melo cuz they remind me of seein her
Fuck :(
Travis Scott these the times that I needed her most cause I felt defeated
Funny and sad at the same time.
Damnnn solance
You and Mac Miller.. Tyler, Vince, and Kenderick. All equals in my eyes. You've helped me realize things in myself. Mac my self-respect. Kendrick my potential. Vince my bravery. Tyler my creativity. you my self awareness, introspection, and humility. Thank you Earl, from the bottom of my heart. I'm gonna do my best from now on.
This is a beautiful timeless peice of art
No one would know for sure but Thebe but this is what I interpreted.
Obviously the basketball scene is simple enough him doing something positive for his life, then he goes home and you see him walk past the statue that at first I thought was a female but later in the tub scene you see it turns into him. It also resembles him a little. Anyway the scene starting at 2:10 with who I would assume to be his mother in front of what looks like to me like a stone vagina does a ceremony of birthing Earl. He is stone which I think represents his cold detached nature, then we go on to the white room which I like to think as Earl’s headspace. Here Earl is human but with green eyes (maybe his demonic nature?). Then we see what I interpret as his father covered in vines. Earl tries to uncover his father maybe representing rekindling their relationship or maybe just his memory, but his efforts are in vain. He doesn’t use his actual hands but stone hands that could represent... a lot of things maybe how people want to show love but are afraid to get hurt so they put on a facade. The stone hands are big theme. Simultaneously little girl in the house tries to uncover Earl while he is lost trying to uncover his father which is ironic. He has someone who loves him trying to uncover him (my interpretation). Again we see Earls mother figure helping to uncover his father but it’s in vain he ends up covered again. When he does get him what he says at 4:17 is significant. Then you see the mother washing him until he’s no longer stone but later she’s not there anymore. At 4:43 you see stone hands in prayer. Earl fans would know he’s atheist/agnostic but his Doris album cover and some song lyrics would hint that at one point he had faith. This easter egg may hint that he has a string of hope left. The following scene with the furniture and the downstairs Earl vs the upstairs Earl to me suggest that the house is also the dwellings of Earls mind perhaps. I probably don’t understand that one. I probably don’t understand most of this but when his father picture breaks he thanks those who cared about him through his depression, and he buries the stone “helping hands.” With what I assume to be his dad’s national flag on the casket. God bless you all don’t lose faith.
Enjoyed reading your thoughts on this. With regards to the scene where he's being painted by his mom and then appears with the same color in his eyes, it could be indicating that his perspective from birth was colored/tinted by the way his mom painted the world to be. Until we reach a certain age, many of us adopt our parents' worldview, and perhaps his inherited perspective had an impact on the way he viewed his dad. Also, the hands from the sculpture seem to represent the way we interact with others a lot of the time - through a facade like you said, in other words we aren't using our true nature to communicate with others (or even the memory of people aka Thebe's dad), including family. Anyways, I think this video is pure art and I doubt he would ever explain the meaning because whatever it means to him could be different for someone else and I think that's what makes this video very special
you think the hands being white, and stone cold has anything to do with not being able to get to the heart/cleanse the soul completely because to do so would mean unlearning what white supremacy has taught/forced/perpetuated as common sense. Therefore the white hands are reasonable logical rather than emotional. That’s why the gentleman washing the statue and earl is using his own hands...you can feel how tenderly he cleanses each. It takes getting to the core of ones own humanity in order to touch others, not just brush away the static energy or brush.
im not a devoted fan of earl but in a recent interview covered by pitchfork he said having an oppressive childhood, in part because of his mother's strictness which could been represented by her painting him. that was one of the very few things i got to understand or put in some connection.
thanks for your interpretations
PS: i wanted to point somewhere in the comments that i was thinking that him and frank ocean coincided just before someone who seems to be frank appeared at 5:03 which was really mind blowing
Edit: seen a comment that says that it's the character on coronus the terminator video by flying lotus, but even though it's really similar i haven't seen the exact scene
I feel like the house scene speaks of him clearing up shop and packing in old ties
I thought about this more as far as the vines/brush...okay so whiteness/settler-colonialism is based on “discovering”, but in this ‘discovery’ the basis of comparison becomes western-European society (see Hegel and Gobineau’s construction of the ‘Black other’). This seems to be represented through the removal of the vegetation which is in essence hiding Blackness from the gaze of the white man. This might be why the gentleman has his back facing the camera, for looking at him in the face would require humanizing him, which is not possible under the gaze of whiteness, hence why Black folks’ faces are cast in white (like the marble statues of the Renaissance), it is the only way for western-euro-american folk to accept Black peoples. Notice his face is not painted though, so it is as if his back is turned to preserve/conceal himself and his tradition, and he is a victim/subject of the white colonizer’s objectification/desire unbeknownst to him as he sits...then connect that to the education system in present day which does not give the tools to properly know this, or even deconstruct it, so the tools are white hands, or a white western point of view (DEATH TO THE WHITE HANDS)...as far as the gold necklace on the gentleman’s back, could that possibly represent how gold was taken off the backs of Indigenous folk?
Azucar is probably the best song on the album
Apex almost
Azucar, ontheway!, the bends, riot, and cold summers are my favorite songs off the album. Srs was worth the 3 year wait in my eyes
Yes!!! I love that song, I love how the song was executed during the film too!!! Very creative and Insightful!!
@@spityergumout riot is really good too
It’s between azucar and veins to me
J Dilla would be so proud of this track....
sounds more like madlib to me
‘‘ hate to beat a dead horse but yea madlib probably, feel like earl would also do this producer randomblackdude proud
@@groove4528 i see what you did there
Earl's growth inspires me a thousand kisses
GET THIS TO TRENDING 🔥
Yes
React to it Rauri!!
MY MAN
*no.* it’s trash
P F / Dad Reacts only bullshit like rice gum makes to trending anymore
Real earl fans where you at?
Edit: shit knew something was up when i saw 100 likes and 30 views. I know macs looking down smiling right now. Love ya earl
We've been gone for 2 years missing ,living life
CagetheKyle 💪
Len Ramsbe lmao
here duh
Hey
This album came out when I was going through a hard time with my fathers side of the family. I can't thank you enough for the parallelism even though its still so much farther to go. Thank you Earl. ❤
I love the internet..being able to connect..with others...see shit other humans do..
Respect those. Where its do.
Respect asf to this human..dope piece.
This got me right on chills. Love you, Earl.
love you too
This is his most definitive work yet. He has made a transition from hip hop to American genius in art.
Daniel Robles *African
AFRICAN DEEP WATCH THE VIDEO AFRICA AND AFRICANS ARE SUPERIOR FOREVER
+Christopher Waller most def
Christopher Waller seems racist to me, definitely not his point
We want raps nigga
THIS NEEDS TO BE EVERYWHERE
I got my grandmama's hands, I start to cry when I see 'em
that bar was H I T T I N
They remind me of seeing her
Cuz they remind me of seein her. These the times that I'm missin her most cuz I feel defeated. I remember that bar. Oh shit...
This is hauntingly beautiful.
Seeing earl happy makes me happy
Ancestors coming through the young, such a meaningful video. Makes me cry every time I watch.