Goddamn this long

I have some respect for the large amount of ass they were willing to put on wax.

This album is as long and as boring as the drama surrounding her is. Like why is this 15 tracks, and people are still calling Doja cringe months later? Like come on bruh just end it already, the album and the drama. There was much controversy for something so safe and so boring, kinda like this album. This shit dead.

Criminally underrated. This album is hard to explain. This is like gleeful mourning. Knowing a time has ended but moving on and hoping for better things. Saying goodbye and dancing away your tears. At least, that's what I got from it.

Don't be fooled, this isn't a club album. This is a crying over your ex, eating ice cream, and dancing alone in your room like a teenager type album.

Why is AOTY and RYM rating this higher than any other Earl Sweatshirt album? If anyone's a Earl Sweatshirt dick sucker it's me alright. Look at my favorites I have SRS at number 1 album OF ALL TIME. The Alchemist and Earl Sweatshirt have done more of the same on this record. This is consistently good but more of the same.
Earl's flow is very monotone and it worked very well with interesting production that tends to be more hypnotic. For example, 100 High Street, Titanic, Fire in the Hole, and ... read more

When you turn on latin music, you always have to dance.
When you turn on regular club music, you always have to dance.
But when you turn on techno latin club music?? Bruh I just have a seizure.

This album is so entrancing. The synth and the influences from synth music from the 90s and 80s is obvious. The hip hop drumming adds a punch and rhythm which adds to the overall hypnotizing the album does to me. The vocals are so soft and mixed a bit under the production. His voice is more to add to the ambience than a distraction which I love.
The only thing that doesn't make this album perfect, and these are honestly nitpicks, is the ending of SubReal could have been a little bit better to ... read more

I think this is top 2 rap projects to come out of the soundcloud era. What a depressing and hard hitting album. This is an album that feels like true acceptance of defeat. Your life is over and your on drugs all the time to forget that fact. This album is being on those drugs knowing your life is over. It is feeling numb. It is like doing a slow dance towards your death.
I think a lot of trap and "mumble rap" gets a lot of a bad reputation for some good reasons and mostly bad ... read more

He tried to experiment. I can say that at least. Yeah Lil Uzi was a good vocalist at the beginning of his career because he created his own flow, but I always felt like his production was behind him. This is like it switched but even worse? The production on this album is hit or miss. Werewolf is a good song for example, but practically every song Lil Uzi vocally, seems to copy the flows of so many others but with less of his own spin, creativity, or talent. Not a fan of this and gives me a lot ... read more

This reminds me of a more ambient version of Joji's old music and maybe some Duster as well. This is like an EP of great ambient interludes honestly. That is a compliment and a criticism. These interludes are amazing and if they were on Stratosphere or Soundtracks for the Blind I would think "Wow this is perfect."

The EP unfortunately does not feel like a cohesive project because most of the songs aren't fleshed out. Even the longer tracks don't feel fleshed out fully. These songs ... read more

I can't imagine the amount of fun these guys we're having making this. Everyone knows this album is ahead-of-its-time. Everyone knows it is inventive but it's also just perfect? Unfortunately the mixing has aged badly but that is not their fault. That is just the time. And for the time this is perfect.

all genres progress and eventually advance the sound to its furthest point. Welcome to the full expansion of 90s hip hop and trap. This is what I've been waiting for hoes AND YALL TOO SCARED FOR IT WAKE THE FUCK UP

Edit: great record but this review tweakin ngl.

I know people already complained about the skits on this shit, but let's be real this whole thing a play with how much acting he doing. He just impersonating other rappers. Kendrick Lamar is his biggest impersonation here. It's hard to listen to this knowing I could just listen to Kendrick Lamar do it better, without so many unnecessary and skits that seem kinda pretentious. That being said it's obvious he does care about his craft and and I think if he could get a more self-aware point of ... read more

At it's worst it sounds like Ed Sheeran. At it's "good enough" it sounds like Blake James. At it's best, it sounds more of an independent electronic pop melody. The production honestly does carry the music. His lyrics and vocal performance, although serviceable, do not stand out to me. Not that he's a bad singer but it is pretty formulaic. The sad love feeling, still though, is met. Albeit his singing and lyrical content seem pretty standard, the production on this album really ... read more

Wow never heard of Adele before this. It was nice of Yeat to let an underground artist like Adele do all the singing and adlibs on this album. Gotta check her out!

im scared

His best produced album. His flows are on point. The features almost always hit. The only thing that is a little bit behind are his lyrics and story which I wish had a bit more depth and more literary complexity other than just "bars." Lightyear is an amazing end explaining how all of these things he's been struggling with when it comes to making music and choosing himself over the industry. But Lightyear also makes the rest of the album, story-wise, kind of unnecessary (especially ... read more

With the most terrible bad albums you can tell they were trying to do something one way, and failed miserably. This is one where, what the fuck she was tryna do and it worked? What is this woman doing is she okay? Why does Searching for Closure make me think Farrah Abraham is NBA YoungBoy's biggest inspiration when he goes into his sad piano trap bag?

I was way too kind on this, but there's something to Eryl. His sound is something the Abstract Hip Hop world needs. Check out his two latest projects. But this EP is still absolute ass. Makes sense it was his first project.