As Earl's music deepened, it took on qualities both of classic underground rap and free jazz, filled with unstable rhythms, stream-of-consciousness flows, drumless beats, and a sense of fragmentation that made them feel dense but startlingly alive.īy the time he was in his mid-twenties, he was already a kind of elder statesman, the progenitor for a new wave of artists dismantling the dusty, downcast sound of ’90s boom-bap and building something entirely new. And after all, he was only in his early twenties-how could he possibly pretend to know exactly how he felt?īorn Thebe Kgositsile in Chicago in 1994, he was raised primarily in Los Angeles, eventually hooking up with Odd Future founder Tyler, the Creator, via MySpace-an orientation toward the social possibilities of the internet that helped make the collective one of the first success stories of its kind. So while the essayist James Baldwin’s use of the phrase “imprecise words” referred to the ways in which language can, when generalized, help perpetuate inequity in structures of power, Earl’s sampling of it at the beginning of 2018’s Some Rap Songs sounded more like an endorsement: Yes, abstraction can harm, but it can also be liberating, a light shone down an unexplored hallway. But like the Wu-Tang Clan or Lil Wayne, Earl’s raps could make even violence and vulgarity sound surreal-not just instruments of parental disturbance, but wet clay in the hands of a lyricist bending metaphor into strange, unfamiliar shapes. This mixtape gathers up some of the highlights of Earl’s career so far to get you excited, and for newcomers informed, which include tracks from that first Earl mixtape, his spots on Odd Future mixtapes - before he got shipped off to Samoa by his mom - his spots on Tyler’s output, along with other members of Odd Future and plenty of spots with outsiders too.When Earl Sweatshirt started out with the Odd Future collective in the late 2000s, it wasn’t clear whether he’d mature at all, let alone into the artist he became.
I teased at Doris’ impending release back when Earl dropped Whoa featuring Tyler, the Creator, but there have been a couple tracks leading the way to Doris, like Chum, Guild and Hive, that have paved the way for what’s likely to be either a promising or brilliant debut album. The mixtape’s called Earl 2 : The Road To Doris and perhaps acts best as a catch up, or refresher, course for newbies and oldies alike. Not only as a keep sweet and a tease for fans, but it acts as a good introduction for the uninitiated too. A month ahead of the release of his debut album proper, Doris, Earl Sweatshirt drops a stopgap mixtape to keep fans sweet a fairly late stepping stone between 2010’s debut mixtape Earl and his official debut Doris.
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