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Review Summary: A Handful of Hip-Hop Compositions Some Rap Songs is a mess. It's an album that I really wanted to see the value in, but it just is not there. Part of me can even see the intention, the emotion that he was trying to convey, but as a musical package it does not work at all, and part of me even thinks Earl knew! "I'm going to make the weirdest, most unlistenable project I can think of, and people will still eat it up, due to it's intrinsic weirdness." Just look at that troll-ass album art, he is laughing at you.
Whenever anyone says anything positive about the album, its always vague descriptors. "Experimental" "Raw" "Dark" "Brooding" or the absolute worst "Relatable" (eyes roll into the back of my head). Well let's talk about the actual sounds we are hearing for once, shall we?
The vocals on Earl albums have historically been the most important factor. Listen to Doris. His voice is always the most prominent factor in the mix, as it should be. Now listen to SRS. His vocals are ALWAYS muffled, covered, unannunciated. On any other album in existence that would be considered a negative. But for some reason, people say his vocals that you can't even make out half the time have a charm to them, only on this record? Give me a break. It's bad sound design. It's hard to say his lyrics are a strong suit when the only way to make out what he's saying is to look up the songs on Rap Genius.
And how about the production? It sounds to me like "Throw *** at a wall, and leave it all there, regardless of whether it sticks or not." Half the beats on the album literally sound like broken records, repeating, repeating repeating until you go f*cking CRAZY. The use of samples on SRS is so off-putting. The songs somehow sound too short and too long at the same time. They always leave me thinking, "Where's the meat to the bones? Why should I give a spit about that whirlwind of random sound and inaudible mutterings that just passed my eardrums?" And then at the same time I'm praising God that the tortuous, repetitive beat is finally fading out, even if it was a minute long track.
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Album Rating: 2.0
raw thoughts.
review might be half-baked, but, hey, so is this album
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ok I'm done moving on
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it's as "it" as this album
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this was originally a random comment, but I thought fuck it, let's piss some people off.
An album this messy doesn't deserve a review with structure, prose, romantic language, all the bells and whistles that define professional writing. Nah, this album deserves a throwaway comment as a review.
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Them spaces doe
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G A P S
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Now with less Gaps!
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I posd. I don’t understand the appeal of this album. I hate it 🙃
| | | Album Rating: 4.5
Best album of 2018
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I think the best rap album of 2018 was Daz Dillinger’s Dazamataz. Double album of classic g funk
| | | Album Rating: 3.5
Lol I love the beats on this album, I like the way you write when you trashed them tho lol
| | | Album Rating: 3.0
I'm not a rap guy at all, but this absolutely slaps. It feels like a great mix of modern rap and old school NWA style stuff.
| | | Album Rating: 4.0
Love this album but certainly wouldn't begrudge anyone who doesn't dig it lol, no denying its rough edges
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😐😐
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"I'm not a rap guy at all, but this absolutely slaps."
If this sentence isn't emblematic of this album's fanbase, idk what is.
| | | Album Rating: 4.0
idk. i feel like most surface-level hip hop fans dont like this. def true in terms of people i know irl
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Oh, and another thing nobody seems to mention. I think there is a massive quality difference between his bars on Doris and IDLS (and a ton of great features), and his bars here. I used to think he had a knack for the poetic, while still embracing his condescending and cold nature. "Nightmares got more vivid when I stopped smoking pot..." "You'll be the MOUSE that the FALCON snatched up!" "Purchasin' shitty grams with half the hand of cash you handed."
Now everything feels weightless, no longer cutthroat. I get that he's in a different emotional state, so he's coming from a different perspective with his recent lyrics, but I used to think he had the potential to be one of the best lyricists in the game, and now I just see him as coasting, using too many filler words and phrases (he uses "nigga" and the same way I use "um" when I talk). When the best lyrics people can come up with is "I been making waves, you been surfin' in em" which sounds like my talentless buddy Caleb free-styling, yeah the lyrics have taken a significant drop.
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Surface level fans of anything won't like this either. I somehow still have a few songs from this saved to my work playlist, and I won't get 30 seconds into a song before someone says "WTF is this shit."
The only people who like this are I N T E L L E C T U A L S
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Earl done fall off bro. And he don't care either.
| | | Album Rating: 2.5
I mean rowan is definitive proof that surface level - and surface level only - fans will like this
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