“Earl Sweatshirt has been more prolific than a myth, but less accessible than a rap star. He’s conscientious about his status as a Black artist, was compared to Illmatic-era Nas as a teenager, has spent time living at a therapeutic school for at-risk boys (amid a juvenile but nationwide campaign to get him back home), and has dreads like a Jamaican in Flatbush. Earl is the son of an educator and a ”
“Earl Sweatshirt used to make you sift through the mud to find the gold. On his latest album, the nuggets are gleaming right on the surface.”
“LA rapper sums up the times with grit and menace”
“Before Free Britney there was Free Earl, the 2010 movement to “liberate” the then 16-year-old US rapper Earl Sweatshirt from a reform school in Samoa to which his law professor mother had sent him, alarmed at his drug use. Since Sweatshirt’s graphic start as part of fellow enfants terribles Odd Future, the MC born Thebe Kgositsile has grown into one of hip-hop’s least obvious talents, rejecting ma”
“The groundbreaking MC continues to push himself on his most artistically rewarding album yet”
“Earl Sweatshirt’s latest project SICK! is an ode to his ever-growing craft”
