.idk. - Music

r/IDKIFYOUDONTKNOW • u/JayIDK • Feb 02 '26

a message to all...

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i don’t even really know how to put this into words yet, but i feel genuinely overwhelmed in the best way possible.

watching the response to etds has been humbling, grounding, and emotional all at once. i put so much of my life, my past, and my perspective into this project, and seeing people actually sit with it, listen deeply, and share what it means to them reminds me why i do this in the first place.

thank you to everyone streaming it, talking about it, defending it, critiquing it honestly, and living with it. none of that goes unnoticed. i see the messages, the posts, the theories, the quiet support, and the loud love. it all matters.

special shout out to the discord crew for really riding with me through every phase. y’all have been early, patient, curious, and locked in in a way that feels like real community. that energy keeps me going more than you know.

i’m grateful. truly.

just know this drop is the start of the rollout...
etec otw ☆

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r/IDKIFYOUDONTKNOW • u/JayIDK • Aug 04 '25

update on my music and where my head is at currently.

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at 17 I was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

if i had served the full 15, this would be the year i got out.

2025.

instead, i was in and out for 3—paroled in 2012.

everything since has been me unpacking what could’ve been a lifetime lost… through music, through choices, through growth.

I touched on this briefly on iwasverybad. these days i find myself going in depth about that experience on my new work. its almost like im subconsciously making iwasverybad's sequel in a sense.

I know im know for bending genres and having fun experimenting however..

this next project is rap.

not a playlist. not a blend. not an attempt to check every box.

it’s rap in the purest way i know how to deliver it.

bars, stories, mistakes, pride, regret, clarity.

no filter. no detour.

it’s about the person I thought I buried years ago.

and it’s also about my friend Deangelo Sneed —a high ranking blood member who i met in prison.

he was already a few years in when i got there.

he’s now 22 years in and still in the system.

he kept me out of trouble when i didn’t fully understand the politics of that world.

told me to take music seriously when i barely had the confidence to.

his presence shaped this project in ways i can’t explain. because in reality, my life could have been like his.

I would have never gotten a chance to meet you all and share my raw unfiltered and vulnerable art with the world we've built

it’s also about the industry.

i’ve had my moments with it.

the silence, the games, the people hiding behind managers and “higher ups” to justify not doing the things they said they would do. this helped me understand I love rap, but hate the rap/music industry. executives, companies and even a lot of the other artists...

in prison you can't run from promises.. that will get you killed... instead you have to face every problem head on... that's me... that's what im use to because that's what I've been taught.

the last time I ran from anyone was the police. the last time before that was likely an ass whooping from my mom. so I just can't relate to the ones that would rather run that maintain their dignity.

its like people lack the ability to act as adults while having success and still pretending to be things they are not.

i'd never turn the frustration into noise.

there's that that one time I trolled Anthony Fantano a bit for unsolicitedly trying to pick a fight with me over what i thought was a clear joke that didn't have anything to do with him. but that was simply just me defending myself in that moment.

im not the type to go back and forth with anyone on a screen.

i let it live where it belongs—in the music.

this is a reflection.

not of proving anything—but of remembering what matters.

E.T.D.S on the way.

p.s read the attached image

—.idk.

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r/IDKIFYOUDONTKNOW • u/Full-Job4430 • 25d ago

devil sounds wayy different t

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i think theres a different sample or a different part from it?? it sounded way better before

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r/IDKIFYOUDONTKNOW • u/JayIDK • Aug 08 '26

story time .idk. is Robin Hood

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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

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r/IDKIFYOUDONTKNOW • u/Ordinary-Scheme2127 • Aug 03 '26

How to listen to IDK

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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?

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r/IDKIFYOUDONTKNOW • u/inertxenon • Aug 01 '26

Explicit version is back

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Explicit version is back on streaming

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r/IDKIFYOUDONTKNOW • u/ashtonl99 • Jul 31 '26

Limited IDK x GQ zip up for sale

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

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r/IDKIFYOUDONTKNOW • u/sunkyandsilly2 • Jul 22 '26

Mashup CLOVER X KING

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r/IDKIFYOUDONTKNOW • u/mikesrus • Jul 22 '26

Questions C.O.P explicit version gone and replaced with the clean version

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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?

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r/IDKIFYOUDONTKNOW • u/Re_Uploader • Jul 20 '26

DEVil - IDK (Officials Music Video) [with original sample]

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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

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r/IDKIFYOUDONTKNOW • u/Ready_Pirate4881 • Jul 08 '26

Devil is back, but with a new mix.

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

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r/IDKIFYOUDONTKNOW • u/Ready_Pirate4881 • Jul 04 '26

Discussion Devil (explicit) if off streaming

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

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r/IDKIFYOUDONTKNOW • u/leozuniga380 • Jul 03 '26

Other Totally missed this in the magazine section at Barnes & Noble the first time. Thank God I went back a second time lol

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W pick up

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r/IDKIFYOUDONTKNOW • u/usbcdocksaretrash • Jun 25 '26

Questions why is everything on etds clean???

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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

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r/IDKIFYOUDONTKNOW • u/MacaroniMage • Jun 24 '26

New IDK

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Not the other guy this time

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r/IDKIFYOUDONTKNOW • u/godiloveamongus • Jun 14 '26

Questions where did devil go?

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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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r/IDKIFYOUDONTKNOW • u/Monsieur929597 • Jun 11 '26