“After spending the last dozen years or so crafting deeply personal opuses encapsulating different periods of his life, Earl Sweatshirt has grown from Odd Future's most promising prospect — a teen prodigy at the stylistic intersection of MF DOOM and early Eminem — to an avant-garde master of his craft with a penchant for pushing boundaries. Despite the guise of the shock-value antics and juvenile ”
“Earl is on another level. The way he deploys his skill, humor, and encyclopedic knowledge of hip-hop has made him one of the most effortlessly deep and cool rappers alive.”
“Rapper’s stellar new album, Live Laugh Love, shows his continued growth as a man with a deeper understanding of the world and his place in it”
“Earl’s blatant disregard for drum kits, hooks, and common time signatures connects the sampling antics of MF DOOM to the mood-over-form impulses of MIKE and Medhane, strengthening the argument that he is, in fact, still one of the coolest and most-inventive MCs alive.”
“**Favorite tracks:** rhyme schemes on the entire record as well, not only because it [Watch the review](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIN2veGtG18)”
“Earl is having more fun with spinning bars out of his complex experiences, be they traumatic or joyful. Even his simplistic flexes ring out louder than the hardest lyrics from mainstream rappers.”
