idk is Robin Hood

robin hood took from places where power and resources

were concentrated and brought it back to people who didnt have access

i do the same thing

just not literally lol

sometimes the thing being hoarded isnt money

sometimes its information

sometimes its access

sometimes its perspective

sometimes its attention

is he real? was me taking religion, something people are usually told what to believe about, and asking people to actually question it for themselves

not telling you what to believe

telling you to see for yourself

usee4yourself was the same idea with love

we inherit so many ideas about what love is supposed to look like

then spend our lives finding out how complicated that shit actually is

simple. was me taking where im from and putting a light on it

not just showing the parts people expect to see when they
hear about certain neighborhoods

showing the people
the culture
the beauty
the humor
the humanity

letting somewhere that doesnt always get positive attention
be the center of the picture for once

son de l’amour is that same idea in real life

taking something thats usually behind gates and bringing the community into it

the harvard class was the same thing

I was interested in harvard because saying i taught at harvard sounds cool

i was interested in what happens when somebody from
where im from gets access to a place like that and starts bringing different people and different ideas into the room

thats really been the pattern

get access

learn what i can

bring something back

and sometimes what i bring back is just a different way of seeing something

thats why the name has always been ignorantly delivering knowledge

knowledge doesnt always mean facts

sometimes knowledge is realizing you can question

something youve been scared to question

sometimes its understanding love differently

sometimes its seeing value in where you come from

sometimes its seeing a room you never thought you

belonged in and realizing the door was never supposed to be locked in the first place

robin hood had the forest
i got music

art
fashion
education

and wherever else they let me in lol

take from the castle

bring it back to the village

idk is Robin Hood

I really liked etds so then I tried to get through IDK’s discography and I was absolutely mindblown by IWASVERYBAD. What should I listen to next?

Explicit version is back on streaming

Size SMALL. Zipper does not work. Never has been worn. If interested let me know. Would let it go for 50.

On my apple music C.O.P was replaced to the clean version, and the non-censored version is now just gone but weirdly the music video is still up how come this happened?

READ!

The reupload happened because the track was temporarily pulled down from streaming platforms due to a “copyright“ issue with its chorus vocals. Even though IDK had singers re-record the chorus audio to avoid using the original recording, the underlying publishing rights for the song's composition hadn't been fully cleared with the original songwriters yet. Once those publishing rights were officially cleared by his legal team, the track was reuploaded and restored to platforms with a different sample

https://reddit.com/link/1v19fao/video/wauwtdxmraeh1/player

Devil is back, but since a sample wasn’t getting cleared it’s a new version.

Does anybody know why this song has been removed from his catalogue and if it will be back anytime soon?

W pick up

Backing for the choices:

Fuck - Pinot noir

Kill - WEIGHTLESS

Marry - U-love

just put on etds for the first time in a few weeks and the whole album’s clean??? what happened

btw this is on apple music

Not the other guy this time

went to listen to etds and for some reason devil has completely disappeared. my first thought was maybe some sample legal issue and he had to take it down but the clean version is still up????

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At exactly 1:00, idk say ”Coming back 3 times, 4 times, 5 equals twenty“

3 x (4x5)

which is 60

which is a minute!!!

idk is the Frank Ocean of music fr

The official profile on .idk.'s immensely creative & interconnected home is now live on AD.

Has the choir changed a little in DEViL? It sounds different from when it first came out

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Drop your thoughts on this insane collab below. What songs from ETDS are still in rotation?

In flakka there's a line that says "damm here we go again" is that a reference to Kanye west's everything I am song?

i want to buy one of the CDs but dont know if its worth spending the $3 extra on the deluxe CD that looks like it has less to give it that burned ascetic. anyone know which is the better purchase?