magnoliia

Didn’t age well, alike most old Odd Future works, but EARL has more interesting beats and rhyme schemes at time that manage to consistently remain mid-zone throughout. Not all that special, but not unenjoyable.

It’s really not that bad, it doesn’t have a ton of really bad tracks (with the exclusion of the singles song, samson’s golden axe, a pleasant sort of terror, and ESPECIALLY total burn, but that’s only 4/20 on an old compilation) but it mostly was just kinda mid songs or surprisingly solid ones. I was actually pleasantly surprised by quite a few, notably I don’t want you, get better get well, the staying song, I CAN TALK WITH MY EYES SHUT, and the vice president of ... read more

This is not experimental rap. This is a waste, the soul of all of his past, most groundbreaking works has been extracted leaving roadkill that pretends to be alive.

I wasn’t excited for this record. Only those who slobber over these edgy and embarrassing broken plates of once shiny glass were, I’m sure. A work like this had been prowling around the corner since the over-the-top and corny rants that felt scripted. With the false, misinformed title “EXPERIMENTAL RAP” and ... read more

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