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Earl Sweatshirt's 'Some Rap Songs' releases on November 30 and will see the young rapper coming to terms with the death of his father.
Earl Sweatshirt calls himself "a surviving child star" in a press release announcing his new album, Some Rap Songs, out Nov. 30. It's not a label typically applied to prodigies in hip-hop, where ...
On ’Some Rap Songs,’ the reluctant Odd Future star gestures toward his strange relationship with fame.
Earl Sweatshirt has announced his first new album in three years. The follow-up to 2015’s I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside is called Some Rap Songs.
Beachside in Santa Monica, Calif., Earl Sweatshirt spoke with NPR's Ari Shapiro about memorializing his father, working through anger and his latest album, Some Rap Songs.
Earl Sweatshirt and many of his Odd Future colleagues, including Tyler, Frank Ocean, and Syd, are somewhere in the murky generational in-between, aged beyond their years but forging onward.
Sweatshirt, born Thebe Neruda Kgositsile, was a no-show. But the prodigious talent—beneficiary of a five-year-strong hype cycle—can be excused for reportedly skipping one of the countless ...
When Earl Sweatshirt teased an album in November with the release of singles “Nowhere2go,” an experimental track to say the least, and “The Mint,” a more “traditional” Sweatshirt track ...
EARL SWEATSHIRT Doris (Tuesday) Overview: "Free Earl" became a popular hashtag with fans of hip-hop collective Odd Future after Earl's mother shipped the rapper off to boarding school in 2010.
From Earl Sweatshirt’s personal and lo-fi “Some Rap Songs,” to J.I.D’s technical theatrics and Boosie’s long-awaited full embrace of the blues, plus much more.
Where Earl Sweatshirt has always differed, or at least since the release of his landmark Some Rap Songs (2018), is that he is a voice of surface-level zen; the calmness of his forthright vocal style ...
Just about a week ago now, Sweatshirt announced that his next album is called Some Rap Songs and that it’s coming quickly, with a release date of November 30.