Earl Sweatshirt is the youngest member of the California skate-rap collective Odd Future, and he’s been missing in action ever since the crew came to prominence in mid-2010, even though his album EARL is probably the most compulsively listenable thing to come out of the crew. Some pretty reliable sources have supposedly discovered Earl at a youth camp in troubled Samoa, where, legend has it, his mother sent him after getting worried about the music he was making. Others have disputed that. But as far as we can tell, Earl appears to be back now, with a new song and everything.
After teasing the new track with a video and a Twitter account, this alleged Earl today posted a link to his new website, Terttle Fer, which has a stream of the new song “Home.” And yes, it really does sound like Earl, with all those twisted-up, remarkably complicated deadeyed rhymes over a diffuse, washed-out soul sample. It’s less than two minutes long, and it’s definitely worth a listen. Click here to hear it.
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I haven’t been keeping up on the OFWGTKA happenings as of late, but the separate website has me wondering if he’s back in an Odd Future capacity as well. Tyler hasn’t made any mention of him yet via tweet as far as I know.
He has acknowledged he’s back on his formspring. He left a link to the James Pants sampled on the track. It is looking though as if he’s no longer part of OF. No celebrations or anything.
Dope track though. This kid still got skills.
I Believe He Still Is Because In An Interview Tyler Nd OF Said Their Fav Composer Was James Pant This James Pants Originally Made This Beat
But what does he think about Lana Del Rey?
odds are, he wants to violently rape her. maybe eat her out with a bit of mustard.
Lana Del Grey Poupon, or something.
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You are the 90%
I didn’t know Early Man was back! Favorite album “Death Potion” or “Closing In”? GO!
His answer will most likely be “Goblin”
like i said before: if anybody’s got the time/skills, now would be a really good time to post a photoshop of rubberjohnny’s head jumping over a shark.
If I had been stuck on a Samoan island against my will for over a year, I would at least make a small mention of it on my comeback track.
Yes Earl’s back! I’ve been waiting for his return…my favorite OF member
Today Is A Good Day.
The Hot & Bothered Astronaut has returned to Earth.
This is exciting. I know it’s dumb of me to be waxing nostalgic about something that happened like a year ago, but the EARL song/video is still easily the most compelling thing these guys have put out. When I saw that for the first time it was hard for me to think of anything else for the next couple hours. I think Tyler’s media saturation since then has been to the detriment of their music–part of the initial appeal was the mystery. It was genuinely a little scary. I kind of hope Earl keeps a lowish profile and just focuses on putting out good music.
couldn’t agree more, on all of that. i first found out about OF when pitchfork published that “/b/ boys” article, or whatever the article was called, and then i spent the rest of the night eating up all the OF music and videos that i could find online. not so much because i thought the music was great (it’s good), but because the whole thing was mysterious and disturbing, and i like disturbing shit. but then, started popping up on mtv, everyone started saying “swag,” and the rubberjohnnys of the world (or should i say, the real-life versions of the rubberjohnny character) latched on to OF like it’s the new eminem. so, the mystery died, and the disturbing factor started to look more like sophomoric schtick.
but that said, earl was always by far the best rapper IMO, and i’d love to see him become a fixture in the underground. not too blown away by this comeback track, but a collab with doom or danny brown or something like that would be so dope. hope we hear a lot more from him.
um, *tyler* started popping up on mtv. my mistake.
It’s funny that you mention Doom because I think Earl sounds a lot like him on this track. On earlier OF tracks I liked how he always had a really clear, conversational flow but on this one it’s a bit more blurred, and he packs together all these crazy images in his lyrics that seem detached from one another but still form a coherent thread of thought in the way Doom does with a track like Saliva or something. Really good shit. The washed out production is nice but I hope we’ll get something a bit more lush for him to go on, he got a nice beat on Blade and killed it.
i prefer the blade-style production as well. there’s some great stuff on the fuck samoa compilation; if you haven’t heard it, check out the track “dat ass.” probably right up your alley.
Blade is actually a fat Joe beat that they used for the mixtape. But honestly Earl killed that beat and made it his own. I’d love to see him make more songs in that same style. Glad he’s back though, the kid has serious talent. He’s easily the most talented member of Odd Future, if he’s even a member still.
Made me think of Doom immediately as well. I’d love to hear a collab.
Yeah! The heir to the poet-laureate throne is back!
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