Earl is actually at Coral Reef Academy, a place like Tera Melos said is where 'troubled youths' get sent by their parents to get corrected. He hates it.
I always laugh when people are like "FREE EARL, FREE EARL" like he's in prison for something he didn't do. He's at a "troubled youth" in Samoa because his mom thought he was troubled. People don't just send their children to "troubled youth" places in a different country for nothing.
Yes, Tyler has a few horrorcore and emotional raps, but you have to judge him (and the group) as a whole. Some of the horrorcore shit you hear is through his alter-ego or characters he has created.
This is the part where I go out of my way to point out that alter-egos have never been an excuse for the lyrics one writes. I didn't like Eminem (still don't) for the fact that when people cornered him on his lyrics, he went out of his way to say he was "expressing himself through an alter ego". Which I can understand if you're telling a story through your words, but most of the shit is just straight up garbage and all talk. Hype to make themselves sound all out there, when I know for a fact that a bunch of preppy white kids and hipsters are/were the key component to Odd Future. Period.
“in my back pocket, take jade on vacation
the hotel switch from heartbreak to bates quick,
rippin out braids with bare hands amazes
the crowd, go crazy, hands raised, im laced with
swag by the eigth in case you wanna taste it.â€
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Let me explain.
Heartbreak Hotel = An Elvis song about romance
Bates = The Hotel in an Alfred Hitchcock movie 'Psycho' about murder
Result: He starts romancing a girl in a hotel room, and all of a sudden goes into a violent and Psycho state. Classic teenage romance.
Now how many 15 year old rappers, let alone rappers can rap like that? I can find many examples from a teenage Tyler's lyrics, too, that not any common rapper will rap about.
I'm sorry, but I'm one of those people who says that a lot of the time, music doesn't take as much skill as you think it does. I agree, that lyric is great, there's no denying that the reference was very clever. But does one, two, ten, references outside your music make it great? Do metaphors really make the song?
Now you say why other rappers don't rap like that. Well you see, pop music and trash that comes out of the mainstream music industry, is absolute garbage. Not only are they reigned in, but their music is strictly for pop music purposes. If it sounds catchy on a beat, and it can be turned into soundbites on a phone, then they can make a shit ton off of it.
The general attitude is the "dont give a fuck" mentality, which is what Tyler and Earl bring. They hate a lot on mainstream, but so what, it's all warranted with the shit that is produced. There are others in OF who are all about completely different themes and can accommodate to any mood;
- Mike G is a lot more optimistic and smooth
- Frank Ocean... well he's just a dope R&B singer who is generally about love and romance
- MellowHype, these guys are just potheads with a slightly dark theme
I've talked to people who say they're so good because of the difference in their music and all of that shit, but that's the deal with a GROUP. You can't just let one of your members get shot down for being a pile of shit by saying "you gotta judge us all, that's the only way it works out". If one of Odd Future is garbage, one of Odd Future is garbage. If you want to say a "one is a part of the whole", then Odd Future is garbage because the "don't give a fuck mentality" is stupid.
I could honestly go on, but all up, there is nothing new about your rants. But the conclusion jumping and misunderstanding is getting a little old. Tell Tyler on his formspring and he will tell you "that's awesome as fuck, why are you telling me this". They make music because they enjoy doing it, not to please everyone (fuck mainstream). I listen to them because they are a young, vibrant, intelligent, diverse group who bring something to the table that hip-hop and rap is missing.
"Tell Tyler on his formspring" is where I just started laughing. Formspring? Fuck formspring. All questions/responses from that website are so fucking fake that if I could, I'd wipe the website out. It's an ego-stroking contest. I'd love to go tell him that his music isn't original (he may have wolves, but ya know, ICP has clowns
) , or that he's not really "x" or "y". But I don't have much to say other than my personal vote to ignore it and move on. Hence why I've made a personal choice not to listen to it and give it more publicity. Which is something most people should do if I'm not mistaken.
HOWEVER, just for the comment alone from you, JohnK, where you say "We just don't get it". That's just laughable, plain and simple. I get it, he's trying to straggle for attention. He has issues that he expresses through his music and tries to put on "alter-egos" as a way of hiding it. He has a group of people that all do their own thing, like most groups do.
It's almost, ALMOST like people who say that Soulja Boy is talented because he's satirical. Almost. Because I can personally say that people who believe that Soulja Boy is satirical, are autistic.
Also, I've pretty much summed some of the songs from Odd Future into one step up than this.
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