it feels so weird to see him hold a mic and talk normally like I expect him to just go "DOUBLE BACK WHEN YOU GOT IT MADE THIRTY RACKS AND WEED NO FAT IN THE COLLARD GREENS"
Cracking the Code: (Question) You are under the impression that Blackness is already hard to capture, and so it seems that you make little effort to make your messages clear, and simple. What do you think? (Answer) My delivery is true to its original form. So you need to learn the language. I know the language, and with a little effort, you too can know the language. I can teach you. My lessons are well thought out.
I think that the person asking the question didn’t really mean clear and simple messages, but less effort into making long drawn out and over explained ones.
I understood his question. He was saying is it necessary to elaborate on our black experiences thru rap music or is enough to allow the words to be short hand/a less descriptive version of the black experience because the majority of the listeners of rap don’t even understand the surface level experience of what it is like to be black so rappers give a superficial narrative in their lyrics rather then going into depth of what it actually means and feels like to be black and embody blackness and the in and outs of our day to day lives in detail. That’s the simplest way I can break down his question. Rappers sometimes give a simplistic watered down version of the black experience and it can often feel self deprecating at least for me to listen to sometimes so is it necessary for them to paint a fuller narrative by bringing in more details, which will probably make the songs longer. I appreciated the question.
I wished you asked it in his steed then. I understood your variation. I thought he was talking about the songs being too complicated and how they needed to be simpler
The narrative can't be too full because they also run the risk of opening too many minds too quickly and (Showtime At The Apollo-ly speaking) that will bring the Sandman. Also the majority of the public's attention span is inadequate for absorbing basic traditional cuts that are 3 verse structured. Most current songs are now a verse and a half long...if even THAT.
reminds me what toni morrison said abt not catering to the white gaze. Black people know about the Black experience. by not elaborating on shit we already know about, it centers our perspective and our lived experience, and makes the story so much richer. its more tailored to our understanding.
@@RebornLegacy While his question might have been understandable. I thought it was very wordy littered with jargon. And to the people that say "oh thats the problem. We always have to dumb our shit down." Step 1 of the Feynman technique: Pretend to teach a concept you want to learn about to a student in the sixth grade. Richard Feynman was a physicist. So even in theoretical physics the very first step of mastering a subject is having the ability to teach it to a sixth grader. I.e Simplification. Having the ability to explain things in complicated language and use a lot of jargon doesnt earn you extra points. You just end up alienating a large portion of your potential audience.
Earl is a rapper, not an all knowing being, his answer is what he believes rap is to him, that doesn’t mean that what he said is what hip hop as a whole is.
Maestro Immortal’s music is almost on another plane of existence.. you really have to expand the consciousness and open the ears to really digest his material .. he be rapping about topics that everyone’s most favorite conscious rapper’s wouldn’t even have the balls to touch (J.Cole, Kendrick, etc.) Immortal Technique is and always will be one of the most under appreciated lyricists.
There was this thing back in Europe between 5th and 16th century called “flyting “which is basically what they do in rap scholarcommons.sc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1305&context=ssl
Earls one of the only artists out there I've ever felt I had a true connection with, hearing him speak & say something I've never even thought about was captivating as hell I'd love to hear more of his way/process of thinking.
I was just thinking about something like this the other day. There are artists who write lyrics that are literal and straightforward. If they're telling a story they're telling a story in a direct way. This style can work but it can make the listener feel like they got it all figured out. But then there are artists that write in a vague, ambiguous, cryptic way, like Earl. Both ways can work but something about the latter often feels more interesting because it's unknown. It makes you curious.
Being more or less complex doesn't get the message to be more or less complex, meaningfull or well though Coding is either a way to be discret/secret or to create a closed community, those in get to feel appartenance but it doesn't make the meaning more great either Don't get me wrong i love his work but it's not because of complexity, if it was we would all straight up listen to poetry
It's nonsense. The Blues and old Country is the language of the exploited and abused. Rap music is all kinds of things, but it is most certainly not "slave music", unless you mean mental slavery.
Zed Dravot modern day slave music... I liked rap when it wasn’t slave music. There was a time when you didn’t need to read the lyrics and ask around to understand.
Nah niggas not from NYC cannot speam of hip hop. That shit is not black it was born in the south bronx Puerto rican hood. The first nigga to spit bars was Puerto Rican. Go ask Kool Herc.
"Under the rubric of afropessimism." That is a reference to that tradition of writing. I've been educated here. This life is about staying teachable. That was an important art-culture term. Dig it if you dig it. Don't be disagreeable cause man's has the theoretical language. V Important to discourse. I think it was a good question, and Earl is a brilliant communicator, possessing the capacity to re-write what that answer means on the fly. There was no right or wrong question or answer. It be the level of complexity we decide to operate in. Depends on us. I found the exchange really cool.
That is a good question, and i think we can share some points of clarity about it. One clue to this is the word rubric. That's like a simple set of principles, or couple or so concepts that guides and activity. Like the rubric of writing might be grammar, audience, perspective, time, pacing etc. So, there are a few basic understandings which the people in the tradition of afropessimism seek to support, question, challenge, subvert or anything. One writer who comes to mind, other than who the Wikipedia page refers to is the late writer called " Okwui Enwezor " Okwui penned a text called "afropessimism..." And you can find it via Google. Also, This is separate from questions of genre (e.g. sci-fi, non-fic, fan fic, poetry, memoir/autobiography) or medium so, afropessimism is broad and can carry many kinds of discourses. Sorry for the late reply. I hope I have helped. Happy writing 💛
See your life. I never said stupid. You are putting your words in my mouth. On account of that, I'm not going to entertain your factless opinion of my comment. The person questioning was not applying for a scholarship, they were seeking the truth. Why limit that with arbitrary word count? You sound hyper-rational. If word count is what stirs your humanity, please, let us know how many words the question is. Maybe you are a data mystic. I'm not mad at that.
He’s saying that when you hear bullshit or jumbled language without real meaning in his music its not always bullshit thrown together, its coded messages that sound jumbled, sparatic and weird because its almost not spoken in this language its spoken in what he calls a code
Earl embodies what he said here in his music. You won’t understand it or resonate with it on a surface level until you dig deeper into his discography and the meaning behind it.
or until you experience it yourself. i didnt fuck with idlsidgo until i started going through some of those same trials, then it seemed like every word began to make sense
While I can appreciate rap music being made parallel to slave communication (as both are tangible manifestations of African-American experience and expression), I think the effort put forth to make it cryptic also has a lot to do with vulnerability, insecurity and frustration. Aesop Rock, one of my favorite rappers, has a notoriously complex lyrical style and he's whiter than the sun. But his decision to write that way stems from how he feels - the feeling that his life, issues and beliefs are too personal or uncomfortable to express in plain, obvious terms. I don't think rap's coded language is something inextricable from *specifically* black oppression, more a general human emotional response to life and the world around us.
Yeah, I write poetry and it's just fun to make people think about what you're writing, being direct has its perks of course, but it's always better to crack the "code", feels like an epiphany.
As a writer of my songs and a artist i understand both the question and the answer , but in my opinion the answer did sound that intellectual but it made clear sense that what *i* write is what *i* feel whether nobody likes it or not in gna keep doing it because its my passion
he said unconscious and its probably refering to cultural facets that come up withing black culture without any outward communication between artists. kind of like how in 2009/2010 everyone seperately got on that 80s revivalist thing.
When the Wu tang clan first came out I didn't understand some of the things they were saying because I'm from the south. They had a different dialect, slang words, and lyrical cadence from what I was used to. It wasn't until I learned New York slang that I began to understand what they were saying.
RUclips comment sections always show me how much mofos need to have things explained or delivered to them in a way that’s direct and requires less thinking. Foos will literally freak out and call you weird just for typing a long reply lmao. It’s like peeps are afraid to think like their mind will fold in on itself and they’ll go insane looool
jizzabell as badly worded as it was and awfully delivered he’s basically asking earl being a talented artist with a voice that reaches out why he chooses to be more cryptic and less up front about things like racial inequality and helping give people a better understanding of what’s going on and his experiences that relate to it. Young man doesn’t understand that earl is a human like any one of us but he thinks of things from his own perspective and has his own language of delivering that can be taught to those truly willing to listen and learn his work. Any fan of earl knows that his work truly is HIS work
@@ShynolaDaStumpt you do know that his mom is a professor. Earl is educated, unlike y'all, and that's why he understood the question. I didn't care if anyone else did lol. that's on y'all. go read
Semassa Boko yes I know that I’m sure a majority of us here do and idk what you’re trying to say but I think you’re assuming that I implied earl didn’t understand the question when that’s not what I’m saying at all lol. You’re basically reinforcing my point by saying read
“Because blackness is already illegible, there’s less of a struggle to try to be legible, to try to have these long drawn-out songs and verses that are super descriptive and try to fit into the narrative form, so does that resonate with you?” I think he meant to say “effort” instead of “struggle”, his question would have made much more sense this way. Earl was basically saying “Yes it does resonate with me because speaking in a code/vernacular like slaves used to do veers away from a more expected path which many think rappers would take, and I have resonated with this sentiment in my own music, and will continue working to express these thoughts in my mind in my own verses.” (For the record this is my personal interpretation of his question response and he very well may disagree with me but regardless I decided to take a crack at it). A lot of rap music doesn’t contain long drawn out verses, but instead rely more one vernacular to tell a story in a simple way, not to say rap music can’t have long narratives and what not because it does, but it also doesn’t, and that’s ok too.
I never become a famous rapper because I'm scared someone will ask me a paragraph long question like this guy and people will expect me to give back a detailed and smart response within seconds, when I'll just be sitting there trying to remember what he just said
Double back when you got it made Thirty racks of weed, no fat in the collard greens Off top was me, no cap, I don't bottle things Flashin' grandmama rings on her fingers
In Kodwo Eshun's More Brilliant Than The Sun, he makes the argument that 20th century black music of the likes of Drexciya, Model 500, Parliament-Funkadelic, Sun Ra, Mwandshi-era Herbie Hancock, Dr Octagon, etc, identified so much with the science fiction concepts of robots, extra terrestial beings or manifestations of abstract forces of nature and society, in part because to put it bluntly society has only started accepting black people as being "humans" in the past 50 or so years. So in that sense, a black creative wouldnt necessarily see the advantage of singing humanity's praises or being friendly to humanity, they would fully embrace the inhuman and the post human as a mode of expression
I like the way Eshun talks about Sun Ra and he makes a not to point out how in Sun Ra's story, he was an alien dictator. He wasnt this goofy jazz musician who dressed funny, he was a very serious and despotic expression of blackness
Subliminal messages in most songs, shows, movies. That's why there's so many oxymorons in rap because they're really trying to tell you one thing but on the surface level its saying another and if you try to explain to some people they'll think you're crazy lol. Runners of this world are truly smart and understand human psychology like no one else.
nah he did a horrible job of asking a question that could have been made straight forward lol that's what western education does to people. its a bunch of fancy words designed to ostracize people and purposely make their claims indisputable so no one else can prove them wrong unless they follow the same ridiculous rules. even the authors (like that guy) hardly even understand what they're saying themselves. its mostly pretentious BS and its not designed to be understood, and when you read enough BS like that, you start thinking like that and winding up asking stupid questions like this. lmao. most scholars are useless. the people who actually innovate, invent, inspire, etc.. they are the important people. for instance, earl schooled this scholar despite (i assume) having much less institutionalized "education". application>theory.
The way to answer that question would be ... first to define what we mean with coding? Then to separate how the meaning of coding is different from other ways it is used and processed. Then to give at least two examples ... He mentioned slaves, great! he could've made that even clearer, and take away the things that could be misunderstood from that. Then bring another idea that goes together with it documented in History or from an going event. Then talk about his own verses and how it helps him communicate what he wants to say in relation to his audience and the response he gets, since he is the only one with that information, and that's what the audience wants to know.
There’s only a few rappers nowadays that know how to do this without it sounding super dated. My favourite is Jay Electronica new album. “I'm swimming in light like Mahoney in Cocoon The truth like bones of man under the moon We reign all year round from June to June While niggas bite immediately if not soon”
I thought he was going to talk about python and C++
I thought you wouldn't understand him because its encrypted
Legit why i clicked
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@@graph100 You know Object Oriented Programming?
@@davidnichol9793 ya kinda lol but when i said "oop" i wasnt referencing that lol if thats what you mean by that
it feels so weird to see him hold a mic and talk normally like I expect him to just go "DOUBLE BACK WHEN YOU GOT IT MADE THIRTY RACKS AND WEED NO FAT IN THE COLLARD GREENS"
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Mhm Doom said it best “don’t know what he saying, but the words be funny”
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ALL CAPS when you spell the man name
Elijah real doom fans don’t care if you capitalize the name
@@first3numbers But the real DOOM care of you capitalize his name.
that-one-guy from-that-one-movie nah Daniel does not care whatsoever. He’s living in Britain chilling with his wife and kids.
This guy really asked a question ... about songs being too complex ... in a very complex way.
Then Earl said if you don’t get it, I’ll teach you.
" I know what I'm saying, you know what I'm saying?" 🔥🔥🔥
ツsknow cringe lmao
@@lovemesomenugsmmmm cringe lmao
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Fucking Earl fans will praise anything he says or does. His next record could be shitting noises and y’all will call that a classic
@@freepotatoez1189 yeah they're earl fans... go be a fan of what you like.
Next question be like:
“What’s your favourite song?”
DOUBLE BACK WHEN YOU GOT IT MADE
@Holy OFF TOP WAS ME NO CAP, I DON'T BOTTLE THINGS
i don’t even think earl really knew how to answer that question 😂😂😂
Lmaooo
Nah he answered it perfectly
Sounds to me 147 ppl didn't really understand the question themselves
Nah, Earl answered it in the first 2 sentences.
earl is a writer
Cracking the Code:
(Question) You are under the impression that Blackness is already hard to capture, and so it seems that you make little effort to make your messages clear, and simple. What do you think?
(Answer) My delivery is true to its original form.
So you need to learn the language.
I know the language,
and with a little effort,
you too can know the language.
I can teach you.
My lessons are well thought out.
Wow actual transcription, thanks, this idiot didn't know how to ask a question
Thanks
I think that the person asking the question didn’t really mean clear and simple messages, but less effort into making long drawn out and over explained ones.
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I understood his question. He was saying is it necessary to elaborate on our black experiences thru rap music or is enough to allow the words to be short hand/a less descriptive version of the black experience because the majority of the listeners of rap don’t even understand the surface level experience of what it is like to be black so rappers give a superficial narrative in their lyrics rather then going into depth of what it actually means and feels like to be black and embody blackness and the in and outs of our day to day lives in detail. That’s the simplest way I can break down his question. Rappers sometimes give a simplistic watered down version of the black experience and it can often feel self deprecating at least for me to listen to sometimes so is it necessary for them to paint a fuller narrative by bringing in more details, which will probably make the songs longer. I appreciated the question.
I wished you asked it in his steed then. I understood your variation. I thought he was talking about the songs being too complicated and how they needed to be simpler
The narrative can't be too full because they also run the risk of opening too many minds too quickly and (Showtime At The Apollo-ly speaking) that will bring the Sandman. Also the majority of the public's attention span is inadequate for absorbing basic traditional cuts that are 3 verse structured. Most current songs are now a verse and a half long...if even THAT.
Thank you! People act like his question was completely unintelligible.
reminds me what toni morrison said abt not catering to the white gaze. Black people know about the Black experience. by not elaborating on shit we already know about, it centers our perspective and our lived experience, and makes the story so much richer. its more tailored to our understanding.
@@RebornLegacy While his question might have been understandable. I thought it was very wordy littered with jargon. And to the people that say "oh thats the problem. We always have to dumb our shit down." Step 1 of the Feynman technique: Pretend to teach a concept you want to learn about to a student in the sixth grade.
Richard Feynman was a physicist. So even in theoretical physics the very first step of mastering a subject is having the ability to teach it to a sixth grader. I.e Simplification. Having the ability to explain things in complicated language and use a lot of jargon doesnt earn you extra points. You just end up alienating a large portion of your potential audience.
i didnt really get the question, i think it shouldve been longer so that he could get his point across better.
Yeah I was expecting a podcast, really unprofessional of him to make it that short
I’m just doing a sarcasm check.
Anthony Carroll check
he didnt use the word afro pessimism enough
He was high af
"And we were always considered evil, and they try to bust our only code of communicating with our people".
barz 🔥🔥🔥
This gives me an interesting new perspective on rap music.
Earl is a rapper, not an all knowing being, his answer is what he believes rap is to him, that doesn’t mean that what he said is what hip hop as a whole is.
listen to immortal technique
Maestro Immortal’s music is almost on another plane of existence.. you really have to expand the consciousness and open the ears to really digest his material .. he be rapping about topics that everyone’s most favorite conscious rapper’s wouldn’t even have the balls to touch (J.Cole, Kendrick, etc.) Immortal Technique is and always will be one of the most under appreciated lyricists.
@@weebtrash6119 i hope he doesnt stay under appreciated
There was this thing back in Europe between 5th and 16th century called “flyting “which is basically what they do in rap scholarcommons.sc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1305&context=ssl
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So So Right? Lol that was hard to process all the way and Earl handled about the best anyone could lol
Big Greedent for sure he did, he could’ve explained it in layman’s terms. Shit would’ve zoned me out
So So haha right? He tried to take the most boring thing and make it somewhat processable haha
He was tryna sound smart for Earl
that question was fuckin retarded. trying to sound smart makes you look stupid
Vegeta said it best: "He is speaking the language of gods."
Bro 😂😂😂😂
Peas and carrots nigga
There is a lot of depth in what they both said. I wish these ideas could be more fleshed out rather than getting a minute and a half of info.
Earls one of the only artists out there I've ever felt I had a true connection with, hearing him speak & say something I've never even thought about was captivating as hell I'd love to hear more of his way/process of thinking.
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I was just thinking about something like this the other day. There are artists who write lyrics that are literal and straightforward. If they're telling a story they're telling a story in a direct way. This style can work but it can make the listener feel like they got it all figured out. But then there are artists that write in a vague, ambiguous, cryptic way, like Earl. Both ways can work but something about the latter often feels more interesting because it's unknown. It makes you curious.
Being more or less complex doesn't get the message to be more or less complex, meaningfull or well though
Coding is either a way to be discret/secret or to create a closed community, those in get to feel appartenance but it doesn't make the meaning more great either
Don't get me wrong i love his work but it's not because of complexity, if it was we would all straight up listen to poetry
true asf. it increases the replay value
Amazing how much knowledge he packed into less than a minute 🤯✊🏿
“don’t know what imma say cuz i don’t label the bags, i stay in em” 🔥
See ya shootin but yo angle's' trash
0:43 Lil Tecca said, “Ight imma head out”
Underated asf🤧
@@funnyapple8389 no 😭😭😭
YO NAHH LMFAO😭💀
Might as well been him!!
Both the question and the answer didn't really make sense to me.
Coded
The slaves spoke in code and rap music speaks to us in code, it’s up to us to understand what the writer is trying to say
@@Sage_Pharaoh "Fuck bitches, get money" ahh so encrypted 😂
Mr. Schitz that’s the only rap song ever made
Jabb Boison if we’re being honest rap as a WHOLE does not have much substance right now
"Rap music is slave music" Gah dam that's a raw line
It's nonsense. The Blues and old Country is the language of the exploited and abused. Rap music is all kinds of things, but it is most certainly not "slave music", unless you mean mental slavery.
Zed Dravot modern day slave music... I liked rap when it wasn’t slave music. There was a time when you didn’t need to read the lyrics and ask around to understand.
Zed Dravot I think by slave music he meant music the slaves would sing to communicate.
Nah niggas not from NYC cannot speam of hip hop. That shit is not black it was born in the south bronx Puerto rican hood. The first nigga to spit bars was Puerto Rican. Go ask Kool Herc.
Trippy TV lol
Earl gave a humble and genius answer. Genuinely.
"Under the rubric of afropessimism."
That is a reference to that tradition of writing. I've been educated here. This life is about staying teachable.
That was an important art-culture term. Dig it if you dig it. Don't be disagreeable cause man's has the theoretical language.
V Important to discourse.
I think it was a good question, and Earl is a brilliant communicator, possessing the capacity to re-write what that answer means on the fly. There was no right or wrong question or answer.
It be the level of complexity we decide to operate in. Depends on us.
I found the exchange really cool.
How do you get into that type of writing
No ones saying his question was stupid, just a little long and overthought. If you truly are into writing then you would know less is more.
That is a good question, and i think we can share some points of clarity about it.
One clue to this is the word rubric. That's like a simple set of principles, or couple or so concepts that guides and activity. Like the rubric of writing might be grammar, audience, perspective, time, pacing etc.
So, there are a few basic understandings which the people in the tradition of afropessimism seek to support, question, challenge, subvert or anything.
One writer who comes to mind, other than who the Wikipedia page refers to is the late writer called " Okwui Enwezor "
Okwui penned a text called "afropessimism..." And you can find it via Google.
Also, This is separate from questions of genre (e.g. sci-fi, non-fic, fan fic, poetry, memoir/autobiography) or medium so, afropessimism is broad and can carry many kinds of discourses.
Sorry for the late reply. I hope I have helped.
Happy writing 💛
See your life.
I never said stupid. You are putting your words in my mouth. On account of that, I'm not going to entertain your factless opinion of my comment.
The person questioning was not applying for a scholarship, they were seeking the truth. Why limit that with arbitrary word count? You sound hyper-rational.
If word count is what stirs your humanity, please, let us know how many words the question is.
Maybe you are a data mystic. I'm not mad at that.
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The only way to hold a mic is like you're performing lmao
Damn he's smart, that was a really insightful response to the question
He’s saying that when you hear bullshit or jumbled language without real meaning in his music its not always bullshit thrown together, its coded messages that sound jumbled, sparatic and weird because its almost not spoken in this language its spoken in what he calls a code
I never thought about that, slang would help slaves immensely for communication
Dumb profound (literally)
finally, someone says it
Earl embodies what he said here in his music. You won’t understand it or resonate with it on a surface level until you dig deeper into his discography and the meaning behind it.
Can you tell me the meaning behind it
or until you experience it yourself. i didnt fuck with idlsidgo until i started going through some of those same trials, then it seemed like every word began to make sense
While I can appreciate rap music being made parallel to slave communication (as both are tangible manifestations of African-American experience and expression), I think the effort put forth to make it cryptic also has a lot to do with vulnerability, insecurity and frustration. Aesop Rock, one of my favorite rappers, has a notoriously complex lyrical style and he's whiter than the sun. But his decision to write that way stems from how he feels - the feeling that his life, issues and beliefs are too personal or uncomfortable to express in plain, obvious terms. I don't think rap's coded language is something inextricable from *specifically* black oppression, more a general human emotional response to life and the world around us.
"I think we're all a bunch of weirdos on a quest to belong
The songs are echolocation up in impregnable fog".
Please be quiet nigga
Yeah, I write poetry and it's just fun to make people think about what you're writing, being direct has its perks of course, but it's always better to crack the "code", feels like an epiphany.
As a writer of my songs and a artist i understand both the question and the answer , but in my opinion the answer did sound that intellectual but it made clear sense that what *i* write is what *i* feel whether nobody likes it or not in gna keep doing it because its my passion
Exactly. The whole world dont have to underatand it, but those who desire to will
earl sweatshirt looks like he lived in a forest for 3 years with nothing but a stick of gum and a pencil to try and find spiritual enlightenment.
"Collective black consciousness"
What?
A more simplistic term would be the culture and history of blacks in america.
@@ariestheram789 Yeah definitely. Collective consciousness makes it sound like something supernatural.
I heard him say “unconscious”
he said unconscious and its probably refering to cultural facets that come up withing black culture without any outward communication between artists. kind of like how in 2009/2010 everyone seperately got on that 80s revivalist thing.
it’s probably a reference to some of Carl Jung’s works on the psychology of groups and their impact on individuals
Rap music doesn’t always have to be black communication. Just make what you like. 😂😂😂😂😂
nah bro like its real like rap is the only genre of music we havent had gentrified from us bra
Lol Rap music is BLACK culture
When the Wu tang clan first came out I didn't understand some of the things they were saying because I'm from the south. They had a different dialect, slang words, and lyrical cadence from what I was used to. It wasn't until I learned New York slang that I began to understand what they were saying.
This explanation was better than lil mosey's fresstyle
That was such a fantastic answer
"I can teach it you if I know what I'm saying, you know what I'm saying?"
Earl forever
i respect him so much
I usually ask them yes or no questions and use the least amount of words possible, that way we can understand each other .
Random dude: *asks the question*
Me: I like your words funny man.
RUclips comment sections always show me how much mofos need to have things explained or delivered to them in a way that’s direct and requires less thinking. Foos will literally freak out and call you weird just for typing a long reply lmao. It’s like peeps are afraid to think like their mind will fold in on itself and they’ll go insane looool
What did his question mean?
jizzabell as badly worded as it was and awfully delivered he’s basically asking earl being a talented artist with a voice that reaches out why he chooses to be more cryptic and less up front about things like racial inequality and helping give people a better understanding of what’s going on and his experiences that relate to it. Young man doesn’t understand that earl is a human like any one of us but he thinks of things from his own perspective and has his own language of delivering that can be taught to those truly willing to listen and learn his work. Any fan of earl knows that his work truly is HIS work
@@ShynolaDaStumpt you do know that his mom is a professor. Earl is educated, unlike y'all, and that's why he understood the question. I didn't care if anyone else did lol. that's on y'all. go read
Semassa Boko yes I know that I’m sure a majority of us here do and idk what you’re trying to say but I think you’re assuming that I implied earl didn’t understand the question when that’s not what I’m saying at all lol. You’re basically reinforcing my point by saying read
literallyyyyy bro these niggas are not used to thinking for more than one second lmfao!
“Because blackness is already illegible, there’s less of a struggle to try to be legible, to try to have these long drawn-out songs and verses that are super descriptive and try to fit into the narrative form, so does that resonate with you?”
I think he meant to say “effort” instead of “struggle”, his question would have made much more sense this way.
Earl was basically saying “Yes it does resonate with me because speaking in a code/vernacular like slaves used to do veers away from a more expected path which many think rappers would take, and I have resonated with this sentiment in my own music, and will continue working to express these thoughts in my mind in my own verses.” (For the record this is my personal interpretation of his question response and he very well may disagree with me but regardless I decided to take a crack at it).
A lot of rap music doesn’t contain long drawn out verses, but instead rely more one vernacular to tell a story in a simple way, not to say rap music can’t have long narratives and what not because it does, but it also doesn’t, and that’s ok too.
I don't think either party had any idea what the fuck the other was saying
i remember you was encrypted, misusing your influence
Earl sweatshirt is in top 5 of all time for me, forever for me
Earls so smart
“And I’m prolly the worst nigga to get involved with, these shoulders is not for you to sniffle on”
Damn that clip gave me chills
You'll think everything is straight and solved out and predictable until You have to share it.
he dont even know what he asking lmao
I don't think you got the coded message loool
He sounds like Denzel curry when he was talking into the mic
I thought earl was the old lady for a second
That's his mom
I never become a famous rapper because I'm scared someone will ask me a paragraph long question like this guy and people will expect me to give back a detailed and smart response within seconds, when I'll just be sitting there trying to remember what he just said
Double back when you got it made
Thirty racks of weed, no fat in the collard greens
Off top was me, no cap, I don't bottle things
Flashin' grandmama rings on her fingers
In Kodwo Eshun's More Brilliant Than The Sun, he makes the argument that 20th century black music of the likes of Drexciya, Model 500, Parliament-Funkadelic, Sun Ra, Mwandshi-era Herbie Hancock, Dr Octagon, etc, identified so much with the science fiction concepts of robots, extra terrestial beings or manifestations of abstract forces of nature and society, in part because to put it bluntly society has only started accepting black people as being "humans" in the past 50 or so years. So in that sense, a black creative wouldnt necessarily see the advantage of singing humanity's praises or being friendly to humanity, they would fully embrace the inhuman and the post human as a mode of expression
I like the way Eshun talks about Sun Ra and he makes a not to point out how in Sun Ra's story, he was an alien dictator. He wasnt this goofy jazz musician who dressed funny, he was a very serious and despotic expression of blackness
Not entirely related to the topic maybe, but eshun is one of my favorite writers and i really like the way he thinks afrofuturism Nd science fiction
“I know what im saying, you know what im saying.”
That was the most contrived question I've ever heard.
How the fuck Earl sound more enthusiastic answering a question than on his albums
i come back to this video to hear earl say "i can teach it to you"
I learned to adapt way better than I could plan
Yeah
Yuh
He should have replied that it’s not suppose to have a deeper meaning but he was trying to cater to his question instead of saying how it really is.
This guy earl should start making music, I think he’d do good
Can he just stop being the greatest for 5 minutes.
That question had me lost Earl handled it well
Subliminal messages in most songs, shows, movies.
That's why there's so many oxymorons in rap because they're really trying to tell you one thing but on the surface level its saying another and if you try to explain to some people they'll think you're crazy lol. Runners of this world are truly smart and understand human psychology like no one else.
the fact that he understood the question lol
Ima be honest I cant grasp that fucning question lmao. I really wish I went to college.
I dont think he even understood his own question
nah he did a horrible job of asking a question that could have been made straight forward lol that's what western education does to people. its a bunch of fancy words designed to ostracize people and purposely make their claims indisputable so no one else can prove them wrong unless they follow the same ridiculous rules. even the authors (like that guy) hardly even understand what they're saying themselves. its mostly pretentious BS and its not designed to be understood, and when you read enough BS like that, you start thinking like that and winding up asking stupid questions like this. lmao. most scholars are useless. the people who actually innovate, invent, inspire, etc.. they are the important people. for instance, earl schooled this scholar despite (i assume) having much less institutionalized "education". application>theory.
he did not know how to answer that long ass question LMAOOO
same mic earl used to record srs
Bring old earl back 2020
why
Fuck u mean this guy used to be hilarious
"if I know what Im saying, you know what I'm saying" I fucks with this
he sounds like he’s rapping talking normally bro
Never thought I'd see 2 guys be more full of themselves and pretend to be humble about it at the same time in the same room
The way to answer that question would be ... first to define what we mean with coding? Then to separate how the meaning of coding is different from other ways it is used and processed.
Then to give at least two examples ... He mentioned slaves, great! he could've made that even clearer, and take away the things that could be misunderstood from that.
Then bring another idea that goes together with it documented in History or from an going event.
Then talk about his own verses and how it helps him communicate what he wants to say in relation to his audience and the response he gets, since he is the only one with that information, and that's what the audience wants to know.
that dude asking the question sounded exactly like zack fox
This too smart for me😂
Facts
Earl Sweatshirt one of the realest alive
Information=Confusion
How do you guys not understand what he's saying, use the frontal lobe for once
That’s a lot of hot air
"...if I know what I'm saying, you know what I'm saying?"
I could ask you the same thing, I think?
There’s only a few rappers nowadays that know how to do this without it sounding super dated. My favourite is Jay Electronica new album.
“I'm swimming in light like Mahoney in Cocoon
The truth like bones of man under the moon
We reign all year round from June to June
While niggas bite immediately if not soon”
Why y'all hating on the dude that asked the question?
probably dumb af odd future whites who just wanna hear earl rap abt how angry he is
So this where Earl been good shit bro🤟🏾
Necklis
Lol where tf did RUclips take me
Oblivion NPC dialogue at its finest
I clicked this for bars the way hes holding the mic lol.
Shout out for Daylyt he woke me TF up.
Earl holding the mic like he rappin
Bruh my brain can not process this shit
Bro sitting on speaker got the worst posture I’ve ever seen
My man said rap music is slave music 😭😭😭
This is the same guy who said he was a rapist in training😂 black power boys 🤘
ole girl in the back was me the entire time