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Earl Sweatshirt Reveals One of the Big Inspirations Behind His Dark 2015 Album ‘I Don’t Like S**t, I Don’t Go Outside’

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Over 10 years ago, Earl Sweatshirt made music from an extremely dark place. His 2015 album I Don’t Like S**t, I Don’t Go Outside was extremely stark and lyrically dense, digging deep into paranoia and depression.

“I was f***ed up when I made ‘Grief’,” he told Pitchfork in 2015. “I had been prescribed to be inside because I had f***ing medical exhaustion, so I was asleep for, like, three weeks and then I f***ing went outside and tore my meniscus and limped around on that for two weeks. My leg atrophied. It got hella small, along with my self-esteem. I wasn’t taking any pain pills or nothing, but then I took a Vicodin and went home and that song all just happened........

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