He had a very distinctive style in this era for his 2nd album from 2014-2015 that saw a much more energetic sharp delivery and flow that he completely abandoned afterwards, never revisiting it. Why do you think he switched up so drastically from IDLSIDGO to SRS?

Was it because of his involvement with Slums?

Too much weed.

It slowed down his brain, and thereafter, his flow.

He even talks in interviews like he's on a delay.

why not

Slums may have influenced his switch somewhat but he was always heading down the path he’s on now. For example, wind in my sails was recorded in 2015, way before he met the slums guys in late 2016/early 2017. There’s also a ton of ureleased songs from that time that are a clear indication of where his music was gonna go. There’s also quest power and 45 from 2014

cause he built different

lol

Who cares it worked

because (and i know this might sound f***ing crazy or farfetched) artists evolve

The type of s*** he’s rapping sounds way better with a slow relaxed delivery its grown man music

I’m just curious

Not criticizing it

There’s a difference between evolving and having a complete night and day difference when it comes to your flow and delivery though

maybe he wanted to distance himself from who he was before

Its not that night and day he just got older and started using roc marci / billy woods inspired flows

He lived with artists who molded the sound he inherited for months at a time iirc

And I don't know who house to call home lately
I hope my phone break, let it ring

From SRS-FOC-Sick!-Van Dior there’s not really that much of a difference stylistically although Sick! does experiment with his flows and production a bit.

But me personally I do hear a lot of difference between IDLSIDGO-SRS. But the switch up in style probably isn’t that deep.

Yeah I'm pretty sure he lived with MIKE and them in New York for a time

I remember when SRS dropped niggas was saying SRS was inspired by DOOM and not Slums

His production did get a lot more sample heavy after idls too so I understand what you mean

still evolving

look at magikarp to gyrados

night and day

still evolving

You can hear remenants of his delivery from IDLSIDGO on December 25 and Loosie from SRS, so I would assume there was probably more material recorded during that late 2015/early 2016 period that reflects the transition that he just didn’t release.

Everyone is gonna say the usual slums stuff and obviously they were a part of it but this is the answer @op

i think solace meant a lot to him

Idk but the only pre srs earl song I truly can vibe with these days is molasses which to me is a precursor to his current style/sound

I don’t like s*** up there with the classics I don’t care for like Led Zeppelin’s Rolling Stones Beatles whatever old guy band you wanna mention idlsidgo on the same level

this guy has more knowledge but there was definitely an earl era preceding SLUMS