they're gonna hate you for this but you're right

lol

them sLums tapes are like Griselda niggas for RYM hipsters that live in Serbia or some s***

While I don’t agree, I highly recommend listening to Solace and SRS as a double album. They fit together so well

tape wouldn't exist without them as per earl's own words. never understood the acclaim around SRS as if it's somehow more elevated than what its inspired by.

genuinely never understood this because a lot of the sLums style of production and approach can be heard in Earl’s post-Doris work

them sLums niggas have cool stuff but it’s real redundant after the first couple of projects for the most part save a MIKE or a Siifu

Really overrated on here imo. Earl fell off when he started cosplaying slums

I'm not accusing Earl of ripping them, but the whole "let's get some lo-fi loops and basically read slam poetry over it" vibe was basically revived by them (and cities aviv first actually...who is never gonna be credited correctly for anything). I gave SRS a fair shot several times and I don't understand what people see in the album beyond Earl just being a more mainstream artist. Earl was hanging around them, particularly Navy Blue, and was inspired by a lot of what they were doing. It just so happens it fits directionally into what he was working towards with his style of rap.

It's cool that Earl released an album that's very raw on both a literal and emotional level, but the acclaim for it doesn't line up to the derision in the same spaces towards very similar albums. I get Earl's way more famous so there's a natural tendency to acclaim risk, but I really do not think he is doing anything that well on the album that it matches what people say about it. I'm not sure how you can say slums stuff is redundant but this isn't.

i personally don’t weigh SRS that heavily in his discography, i prefer IDLS and Doris over it but i still think it’s a pretty good album all in all

i don’t know what you mean by saying he didn’t rip them but it also “just so happens to fit directionally into what he was working towards with his style of rap”

songs like Wind In My Sails, Balance, Hat Trick, Mirror, are all in the vein of that sLums style of production, solace in particular is literally proto-sLums s*** and is probably the most immediate and most obvious connection i could make off top of my head

the sLums stuff is redundant from my perspective because it follows a similar scheme from album to album and there isn’t exactly a distinct atmosphere that differentiates one project from another, Earl’s arc from his self titled all the way to SRS shows character development and growth, meanwhile dudes like Medhane or even a good swath of Siifu’s earlier work is abstract lyricism about their souls, families, and depression (wherein i’m sure you’d argue that’s what Earl did on SRS, it’s a refreshing addition to his discography as a whole, versus a focal point that is reiterated from project to project over and over again)

i get your gripes because i don’t think SRS is his best album, but i just have my reservations on him hopping on a wave and putting out a project that wasn’t different to any of the other sLums tapes in essence, i don’t even think most of those guys hold a candle to Earl as a writer in general regardless to an extent

keep pace my nigga

Even thought the production of those albums might be on the same level. None of those guys come close to Earl’s level of rapping let’s be real

and as an aside i do think that Earl post-SRS has been putting out fairly uninspired and creatively unrealized projects @krishna_bound

Voir Dire in particular suffered from similar issues that i find in the sLums guys that i’m real jaded to as well

Bend, we don’t break
We not the bank
We all we got

peace to every crease on ya brain

Feet of Clay better than Doris and IDLS.

That 3 project self produced run he had was his magnum opus.

chill ​ slums and earl both goated

It’s coo

Earl lmao

Earl lmao

someone said it innit

Personal classic for sure

Every time I put on this album it's like heating up a bowl of warm chicken soup