Earl Sweatshirt
I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside: An Album by Earl Sweatshirt

It has been a while since the last review uploaded on Debaser, today I return with an album that, until two years ago, I never imagined I would review: I Don't Like Shit I Don't Go Outside by Earl Sweatshirt.
But let's start from the beginning, many of you might be wondering who this young black guy with huge lips and endless rhymes is. Earl came to light with the hip-hop music collective Odd Future (along with much more famous snack companions like Tyler The Creator and Frank Ocean). After releasing an album and some mixtapes with them (including ''Earl''), he was forced by his mother in 2010 to attend the ''Coral Reef Academy,'' a school for at-risk boys, from which he returned with his debut album ''Doris.'' From his first album, one can understand the many literary and musical influences from which he draws inspiration. His is a reflective, gloomy, almost ''chamber'' music, freaky, saturated with rhymes, filled with wide beats and basses suitable for a night in the car chasing an undefined goal. Music not to be taken to heart, but rather to the gut, visceral music that echoes in your insides, to be listened to with eyes half-closed. His second album is a continuation of the gray shades imprinted in ''Doris,'' but it is a much more personal album, starting with the entire self-managed production and with few collaborations that instead peppered the tracks of the first album. The title itself is a statement of intent, from which fear, depression, anxiety, and endless claustrophobia emerge, highlighted, for example, by ''Grief.''
Earl plays at being Mf Doom stuffed with methamphetamine, and indeed lyrically he can be considered among the best of his generation, unraveling rhyme after rhyme with a grave and monotonous voice, like a pendulum perpetually oscillating between apathy and pain. The bases have, like almost all his production, a strong jazz vein (by the way, he collaborated with BadBadnotGood in ''Hoarse,'' a track contained in ''Doris'') and also a strong influence from producers like Flylo or J Dilla (as indeed the whole current hip-hop scene). IDLS IDGO is a short record, a scarce half-hour to listen to with bated breath and consequently so will my review be. Until next time.

P.s. I didn’t intentionally give a rating, I don't like to give ratings, listen to it and don't let yourself be influenced.