Earl Sweatshirt Quotes

I’ve been awkward forever. I have really low expectations for myself. When I do perform to some sort of social standard, I leave feeling really comfortable. I’m either so awkward that I look retarded or I’m so awkward that everyone else feels retarded.

Miscommunication is the number one cause of all problems; communication is your bridge to other people. Without it, there’s nothing. So when it’s damaged, you have to solve all these problems it creates.

The only thing that can combat fear is action. And there’s two actions. There’s fight and flight.

I don’t know why it’s difficult to admit that I miss you.

Trying to make it from the bottom. His sins
Feeling as hard as Vince Carter’s knee cartilage is.

Shout out to the fathers that didn’t raise us

The words that are coming out of my mouth and how I mean them, it’s so much different.

I’m the bestest/on a bad day I spit asbestos.

Everyone’s like sheep on social media; like, one person starts making noise, and everyone’s like, ‘Hey, yeah!’ and then you got a whole bunch of people making noise at you.

Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I’ll name it. It’s a feeling thing; it’s not logical at all.

All rappers are princesses like me.

It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny.

When I got home, I was trying to figure out how to be home. Like, be home in a sense that had nothing to do with music.

I’ve been YouTube surfing a lot lately so I’ll Shazam a song that I find or some s – – and type that in on YouTube and just go through all the relateds for it. So it’s been a lot of random jazz s – – lately. Like I found Lonnie Liston Smith, and Ahmad Jamal, s – – like that. So that’s been very tight.

Twitter is a real addiction, like the color of it, the process of it.

You get committed with what you put in songs. It made me wary of who and what I include, because that’s there forever.

Rapping is the only time I’m serious.

It would be ridiculous to say I don’t want to sell records, but I trust my taste.

I always try and tell dudes that are younger than me is that because of the Internet everyone can just be by themselves doing something, but the importance of a group is being able to have some sort of competition.

Ego is my career. Rap music is all ego.

Sometimes videos make a bad song very tight.

In a world where like everyone’s so accessible now, to say something new in an article that you can’t find out about a n— through his Twitter or like Googling him or some s— is rare. Just like how a good song is rare.

At first I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice I guess.

People think artists like 50 Cent don’t have charisma, but it’s just a different kind of charisma, a bully charisma, which is kinda frowned upon.

SK La’Flare’s a legend. It was me, him and Vince, and Frank would come through sometimes and s – – and he was, like, fully rapping. N – – s was on it.