“With his latest record, the onetime teen prodigy reemerges as the face of a new sound and scene that blurs the line between avant-garde jazz and hip-hop.”
“Some Rap Songs is Earl Sweatshirt's most emotionally intense and artistically defined project yet.”
“One of hip-hop's most original voices describes the feeling of drowning even as art keeps ascending”
“Where is Earl Sweatshirt? It’s a question that fans and admirers of the supremely-gifted rapper have found themselves asking ever since he introduced himself at the age of 16 with ‘EARL’, his incendiary, shocking yet precocious mixtape. In a tale that now seems like a lifetime ago (2010, to be exact), Earl – AKA Thebe Kgositsile – was subsequently packed off to a reform school in Samoa after his m”
