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Riot is sampled from a song by Earl's uncle Hugh who also passed away this year, he alludes to him on Peanut. Think it was meant as a cathartic release and homage

The reaction is as long as the album

Sadvilliany

"This is a great track I'm surprised" dude...it's Earl not lil xan

"Some rap songs" feels more like an abstract art piece experience showing the steady decline of Earl's mental health and battle with depression through music more than it is an album. Sonically, the glitchy, minimalistic production feels like it's a representation of his sporadic thoughts, sounding as distorted and turbulent as his deteriorating mental state; and as the album progresses, the more muddy and chaotic the instrumentals become -- mirroring his mental downward spiral. It's heavy

Creative? Yes Experimental? Definitely Good? 100% Hotel? Trivago

an album hasn't connecting with me like this since blonde. instant classic for me personally. i think the beat selection and mastering is the perfect fit for earl and the mood of this album

Real Earl fans been waiting for December 24 (bad acid) for years 😂

Artistically, as in just a form of expression. This album is beautiful. Earl’s lyricism, flow and cold delivery over these very dirty, raw and glitchy beats. Like everything in this album is a pure sonic representation of his mental state. Like he’s very depressed, just out of touch with everything in his life including himself to the point of him of just being in the border of insanity. This album works as a form of art and that alone.... NOW if you’re looking as an album to be entertained or hear Earl just Spit Crazy bars than this is album is not for you. As a matter fact this album is not looking to please ANYBODY and Earl is clearly aware of it. This is an album worth looking at as not only an important point in Earl’s life of where he is physically and mentally. It’s also an important album when it comes to talking about Mental Health in Hip Hop.

I feel like this album will spit Earls fanbase in half. The people who were expecting old Earl from 3 1/2 years ago are most likely going to be disappointed and those who were watching him grow and change will be ok and or love it. Also the best selection are definitely an acquired taste, this type of experimental beats aren't for everyone. In all honesty I love these type of beats. That plus Earl rapping over them just makes the album all so much better for me. But definitely and acquired taste for this one.

Did you even hear his rhymes? this is a masterclass of rapping and flow

I honestly clicked this not really sure how Shawn was gonna feel about this album

This whole album gives me madvillainy vibes

SRS is what XXX fans thought 17 was lmao

1:27 Shattered Dreams 2:48 Red Water 4:10 Cold Summers 6:26 December 24 7:56 On The Way! f. Standing On The Corner 11:32 The Mint f. Navy Blue 12:48 The Bends 13:41 Loose 15:44 Eclipse 16:00 Veins 17:14Playing Possum f. Cheryl Harris & Keorapetse Kgositsile 17:55 Peanut 18:44 Riot!

This album is like a basquiat painting. All over the place, messy, batshit crazy & simultaneously absolute perfection 10/10

I honestly wished that the interlude on Vince staples album fm was on the album

Sadvillainy vibes. I get why you don't like it but it honestly might be my AOTY

Riot is my favorite song 🙏 it’s the perfect way to end the album

Azucar is my favorite song on the album

I think people are too used to trap music nowadays that this album just comes off as jarring because it sounds more raw, like hip hop used to be... The aesthetic and structure of these songs are some of the most unique I’ve ever heard in rap. If this came out 10 years ago this album would be praised as a classic.

Shawn Cee is sitting in a wheelchair

every hardcore earl fan knows december 24th as "Bad Acid"

It's not supposed to be hype or excited this is pure artistry and poetry each track his tone everything about on this album fits his mood this isn't something you bump to to get hyped

Shawn please understand, I don’t think this album is meant to possess replay value and Earl knows that. With Earl’s father passing away his depression, drug use, loneliness and suicidal thoughts - this is album gives us a feeling what it is to experience all and still be existing. The album sonically feels all over that place because that’s the whole point - it represents his state of mind over the last 3 years. The use of old soul and jazz samples (with distorted mixing) adds beautifully to Earl’s attempt to find his roots and his place in the world. It’s a culmination of abstract ideas and feelings. Just like all of us.

Personally I enjoyed the album

I was kinda weirded out by the album at first but it grows heavily on me. To everyone saying its trash give it a few more honest shots. The thing is only 25 minutes long and I bet you dont have anything better to do so put this on repeat and you might get some enjoyment too.

I can’t wait for melon to form my opinion for me

Ion know man Red Water is one of the hardest hiphop beats to come out this year

If you don't like crazy sample heavy lofi music or just aren't used to it it'll be hard to enjoy

You gotta treat this album like TPAB; the songs work way better when you listen to the full album rather than listen to them individually because these songs work so much better in full context of the album

Riot is beautiful

Had this shit on repeat since it came out last night and God damn it's incredible. The production to me is incredible. Grainy and dusty samples that have been manipulated to perfectly to convey the emotions that Earl spits in his bars. While the flows aren't anything crazy or technical he spits what the tracks need to create this hazy, dark, yet bright and beautiful mood. There isn't a single bad track in my eyes and even Red Water which is just a looped old 8 bars says a lot to me artistically and highlights some of the important topics of this record. The lyrics are a huge step up from what came before (most likely since Earl is older now and has more to talk about, along with the events that have happened in his life) and there isn't a bad or corny bar in here. It's short and direct to the point but there's so fucking much that with every listen it just gets better. Ngl it's gonna be one of the best of the year along with KSG in my eyes. 9.5/10

This album hit me hard... This project has made me feel a way that I haven't felt since Faces. I want to live in this album forever. It is an encasing of emotion and hardships and takes me somewhere else for 24 minutes. Project of the year, *hands down*

The more I listen to this album the more I like the album. I just wanted some of the songs he did live on the album so hopefully he puts those on his next one. Earl will always have his fans wanting more but having as content at the same time. This album def going be on repeat for the rest of the year

Personally the album was great to me. The way the tracks ran into each other made it seem like one long ass song without taking away from the individuality of each track. I can see how it’s not for everybody as well.

This shit is pure artistic madness... Earl fixed everything that he was lacking on the last projects... for the first time, Earl's music is filled and not even 1 sec is boring... This production mixed with Earls dark vibes is so golden.. As an person who had a lot issues with Earls music and who thinks that his previous work was good when he had features on it... i can say that this album is on god level... sorry Astroworld but SRS is just crazy.. aoty

This album is great. SRS has this dark but content feeling to it. The sampling is masterful, the beats are smooth but dirty, and the lyrics are powerful. If you dig alchemist, Marciano, Muggs, Westside Gunn than this will be right up your alley. I can see why people won’t like this as it’s different from the rest of his albums but it’s beautiful to see Earl grow and attack the demons he’s been facing.

Not only aoty but it can go toe to toe with some of the greatest, imo.

I like this album

The track when he sampled his parents was truly amazing and definitely one of the best on the album

The way everyone felt about Atrocity Ambition I felt that about this album.

I like Earl and I love this album. Maybe my favorite Earl’s project.

Some rap snippets

It got 10x better for me the more I kept playing it , his word play is so dope and entertaining I love it, the instrumentals are dope because they remind me of adult swim with distortion. No other rapper could really pull off these instrumentals

I think this will be Earl’s last album for a while if not ever

Let’s Goooooooo 😭😭😭🔥Earl Sweatshirt reaction ..

He gave it a DAMN./10

aoty absolutely i played this album prolly 6 time below today, it never happened before.

“Momma said don’t play with them scabs”

I’m honestly suprised at how much love this album is getting. Shoutout to all the open minds ♥️

whatever you rate this album you have to give it +2 cuz of that cover

I don't think this was a big step sonicaly for Earl, we've been seeing him going more and more experimental and emotional. he's wanted to become more underground and abstract. I'm happy he's taken this direction becuase you can tell that he's making this album for him and for art not for 'relpay value' which should be alot less relvent anyway

this album is next level.

Azucar still one of my favorite earl songs.

This album not trash, just not for everyone.. or most people at that

This album is straight fire as all hell from start to finish. Earl Sweatshirt delivers another masterpiece once again.

Red water is good tho

It kind of feels like the hip hop head's hip hop album of the year. Each instrumental uses such a simple loop that grows more complex with each listen. Each verse is deeply contemplated, and the structure is circular. I wouldn't blame someone for bouncing on it after the first listen but it's definitely an album designed for replayability. Personally I love letting the whole album wash over me and I get fully invested with each listen.

This sounded like he was gonna give it a 4 ngl

Said the whole time listening to the album “I can’t get into it” “no replay value” “I’m not hearing anything new as Mf Doom has done this before” “beats doesn’t work well for Earl” “I probably won’t listen to it again and I wanted replay value” and at the end you rate the album 7/10. Your rating is just as confusing as the sonics of this album

Years later... I think I’ll cherish this album forever. Really spoke to me on multiple personal levels.

This album grew a lot on me since it came out. It was so different for me that I couldn't categoryze it, now that I get it it's a 17/10.

great video but i dont understand why you had to go into a deep analysis on disliking illegal immigrants. srs aoty tho.

After like my 50th listen of the song Playing Possum, after months of its release, while it was playing in the background, as i was cleaning my room and for a split second my mind went completily into the ideea of the song, like his parents being kind of honored and given praise to, i randomly began crying like full on, but with my mind also into the chores that i was doing. I was still crying when i actually realized i was crying. It was a weird and beautiful moment for my own personal reasons and i think it was the first song from the album that i cried on. That's why i love Earl. I feel like talking or just listening to some deep buried part of me that always wants to get out and live and experience shit, but stays most of the time down there because of its fear of failure/hard work without quick results or hard work without the expected result and just overall hopefull state of my mind. Shit has been good lately, even tho i feel like i'm standing in the exact same spot everyday and not evolving in any way, a lot of the times. I kinda went on a tangent here, but that's why i like Earl, he shares his stories taken outside of his own box and i feel like that's also how he deals with the shit in his life.

I don't think it's purpose was to grab a huge audience(hence the title), I just believe he really did go through all that trauma of realization that he was mentally dismembered. The ending track represents him coming to a sort of coping mechanism which is why that track is so melodic and more pleasing to the ears compared to the rest of the album. I do get why you wouldn't necessarily return to a lot of these tracks, I think it was just an honest representation of his literal coming out of the burrow he was in and finding a kinda peace IN MY OPINION

Might be on par with Ta13oo, my favorite of the year. And I'm not even an Earl fan like that. Just the authenticity and boldness of the production and delivery really did something for me that no project has done in a while.

This is his experimental album, his Cherry Bomb, his Endless, his Divine feminine....cant wait to see how this ages

You are too focused on the production and delivery rather than the lyric

for me this is easily up there as one of the best albums ever made, and i think only one album can truely top it for me. this is a masterpiece

His uncle was a famous jazz musician who died, his dad also died. The final track is one of his uncle's songs. When it fades out it's him coming to grips with them being gone

I wish he added a little verse on that outro instrumental

4:58 Shawn! You need to listen to Madlib, Kanckick, Jay Dee (J Dilla), Knxwledge, Flying Lotus, Jneiro Jarre etc... To not be surprised by this kind of beats

The Tent 😹😹😹

YOU HAVE TO LISTEN TO STREAMS OF THOUGHT VOL. 2

for me this album feels more like an album for earl sweatshirt himself, as if hes just trying to get his life out for the past 3 years on some tracks. it uses heavy distortion and lofi elements on a new level that isnt common in this generation of music, i believe that the distortion represents earl sweatshirts disconnection from the rest of the world. as if hes been so focused on his life that he forgot to connect with everyone else outside. I also did notice as you pointed out the phrase "why aint nobody tell me i was bleeding" i believe this represents him leaving behind his old friends because they didnt tell him that he was dying on the inside. anyways thats my thoughts on earl sweatshirts album, also im aware that this is a late comment, but i just never watched the full vid here so ehh

Earl is by far the most genuine and unique. This whole album is not supposed to make your head bob, it’s a bunch of long as complex verses over truly stunning beats that have loads of detail. Every aspect is “unique” tho the lyrics, FLOW, beat, all experimental. Fantastic I think

Azucar goes so hard

Peanut almost made me cry fr

EARL IS THE GOAT AND THIS IS THE BEST ALBUM IVE EVER LISTENED TO DONT @ ME

It sounds good, but 3 years of waiting for an album that's as long as a Nickelodeon show.

When extreme stress overlaps, people want to change their mental and soul even forcibly. Going out doesn't solve the problem and may haunt Earl forever, but embraces and expresses his negative world while accepting and expressing himself. Expressing the primitive sense of exaltation of an animal cannot be realized without the pain of tearing, even if it is a genius.

This one of those albums I can't just listen to one track I always just end up hearing the whole thing, I just love how the album feels as a whole more so then the individual tracks

Shawn perfectly explains what makes this album beautiful but at the same time says he doesn't enjoy it.

Ski mask tho?

For me this album is a 10. It hits really deep, it reminds me of something i was just able to overcome, my addiction. At the beginning of the album earl lost himself, the beats in the first 3 songs all have these crazy hypnotic vocal loops, it was really scary for me thinking abt it how it reminded me of the intrusive thoughts that come with addiction, they become distracting of how you’re able to present yourself and organize any thought in your head, for the first 4-6 songs on this album it’s like the beats are controlling his vocal performance. On December 24th he talks abt mead acid ruining his mental, thus reminded me of the spiritual interaction i had that helped me go cold turkey, being able to identify that by letting yourself be addicted to things you let them control how you adapt to environments, it fucks with how you’re able to interpret any sense completely. The mint is almost like a fresh breath of air for earl, he literally says he’s in control now of the substance in hand. Azucar is the sweet moment for earl, it seems like this is where he’s able to get back into his groove again, and eclipse is where he’s finally one with his self again, and it’s the best feeling ever bc once you’re able to find yourself you can understand other people’s feelings and how you can help them. It seems like the track Riot! is actually the opposite of a riot in that the instrumental is like what you’d hear when you’re reaching the white light at the end of a tunnel, it’s as if he’s finally able to settle down the riot in his head and sleep well. I feel like earl specifically doesn’t give a fuck what he titles this work bc he doesn’t care what anyone else thinks abt this album bc it’s a really deep moment for him, this album seems like it’s more for him and his health rather than for his fans.

I didn’t care for this album the first time I heard it, but after like 6 listens it’s one my favorite album lol

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For what it's worth Doom is the reason Earl is who he's always been

yo has no one else notice the three days grace album in the back

Riot is like finally finding your way out of hell and instead of arriving to a party you just walk around a city watching everyone live their normal life and even though some would says it boring and mundane you can't help but think how much sweeter a normal way of life is

The album is crazy, it gets better every time u play it

Some rap interludes

This album is hypnotizing. I’ve listened to this album all the way through countless times and still can’t decide if I enjoy this or not. There’s just something about it’s atmosphere that keeps me coming back.

This is one of those albums you have to listen to quietly in a dark room not talking at all in between it and let the instrumental sink into you

This album is amazing from a production stand point, very inspiring

Bruh on GOD I just literally stopped listening to this album and clicked on your reaction. The Production is experimental AF. His parents is on it. S H A W N 👀 C E E

The way I see it, the title embodies that slumped and hollow attitude of a depressed person and the kind of vocabulary they use. The dis-jointed and scattered production takes you on a journey of depression kind of like the stages of it through out life as you grow. The ending track solidifies this for me because it is a bittersweet celebratory track to close out the depressive experience as you learn that it'll forever be with you but you just learned how to handle it better with stuff being better in life but still no fulfillment. An interpretation of a depressed person

“Something that he felt, not something I should feel,” is the entire quote behind this video.