slyTendencies

1y

New song is okay. It’s sad we’ll never get that tune Mavi played back in 2019 because presumably it’s from the people could fly album Earl lost

notbrock

1y

Album he lost?

slyTendencies

1y

Yes. 2022 he said in interviews that a 19 track album called “the people could fly” got lost. Once that happened, he then started working on the album that ended up being ‘SICK’.

“Initially, the Los Angeles-based rapper was going to release a different project titled ‘The People Could Fly’, named after Virginia Hamilton’s Black American Folktale about a group of slaves who use magic to set themselves free. But then the COVID-19 pandemic hit, “people couldn't fly anymore … People were sick”. Only two songs from those earlier sessions - ‘Old Friend’ and ‘Tabula Rasa’ - made it onto this album, after “supremely bad decision making" caused the computer containing the work to be lost.”

https://mixmag.net/feature/free-thebe-earl-sweatshirt-sick-interview

notbrock

1y

Man that sucks

I like SICK but it did always feel kinda rushed imo so that makes sense

slyTendencies

1y

Yes. 2022 he said in interviews that a 19 track album called “the people could fly” got lost. Once that happened, he then started working on the album that ended up being ‘SICK’.

“Initially, the Los Angeles-based rapper was going to release a different project titled ‘The People Could Fly’, named after Virginia Hamilton’s Black American Folktale about a group of slaves who use magic to set themselves free. But then the COVID-19 pandemic hit, “people couldn't fly anymore … People were sick”. Only two songs from those earlier sessions - ‘Old Friend’ and ‘Tabula Rasa’ - made it onto this album, after “supremely bad decision making" caused the computer containing the work to be lost.”

https://mixmag.net/feature/free-thebe-earl-sweatshirt-sick-interview

notbrock

1y

Earl sucks on this Landgrab track

slyTendencies

1y

He wrote pretty well but the delivery

notbrock

1y

Man that sucks

I like SICK but it did always feel kinda rushed imo so that makes sense

notbrock

1y

Earl sucks on this Landgrab track

notbrock

1y

Earl sucks on this Landgrab track

Notmyfirst

1y

damn I was really f***in with his tone on that as someone who really didnt like his delivery on Voir Dire

notbrock

1y

Earl sucks on this Landgrab track

RICHAXXVOYCE

1y

Yo what?

slyTendencies

1y

What sucks even more is he basically said in a rolling stone interview that the lost album sounded amazing

“Why was that your goal?

Because I wasn’t about to catch myself doing the same s*** for too long. You can’t do that. I scrapped a 19-track album.

Because it sounded too similar to what you’ve done before?

Yes, and I ain’t going to lie, that s*** was like … I was rapping, rapping, on every single song. But my whole thing is grading things on the truth, you know what I mean? However expansive or detailed the truth is. The album I was working on before had a really optimistic energy towards it, but it felt gross. It felt political, like a mayoral campaign.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/earl-sweatshirt-interview-new-album-1272067/

Notmyfirst

1y

lil tired of his sleepy delivery

WESLEYS THEORY

1y

I view Sick as kind of a palette cleanser after the SRS/FOC era

It felt good to hear Earl use a more traditional flow again on tracks like 2010 NGL

Even though I think SRS is a masterpiece and one of the greatest rap albums of the 2010s

Notmyfirst

1y

lil tired of his sleepy delivery