Watch Earl Sweatshirt’s brilliantly low-key video for his recent Best New Track, “Chum”.
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Earl Sweatshirt joined Odd Future at their NYC show last night— here’s our report. Photo by Will Deitz.
"Initially I was really pleased that all these people claimed that they wanted me released because I thought that translated into ‘they care.’ But now with the ‘Free Earl’ chants come a barely indirect ‘Fuck Earl’s Mom’ and in the blink of an eye my worry changes from ‘will there still be this hype when I get back’ to ‘Oh shit I just inspired a widespread movement of people who are dedicated to the downfall of my mom.’"
— Enigmatic MC Earl Sweatshirt— who, as it turns out, is the son of a celebrated South African poet and is not currently being involuntarily confined— breaks his silence in an 8,000-word New Yorker piece on the rapper and Odd Future by Kelefa Sanneh.
Some Unreleased Earl Sweatshirt Entitled “Dat Ass”. Our Soldier, Wolf, Bother And Friend Is Currently Not With Us. Stop Asking Where He Is, We Like To Keep This Private Because It’s Very Personal For Us. And No, He is Not As Some Boarding School And Blah Blah Blah, None Of You People Know Because NONE of You Know Him Personally. Free Earl. Click Photo To Download.
