Earl Sweatshirt

For a decade, the Low End Theory, the Los Angeles club night, was instrumental in building the wave of smart and heady beat-based music in…

Earl Sweatshirt has cancelled a brief run of festival shows he was scheduled to perform in Europe. Hours before he was scheduled to perform at…

Houston has had a year. In August, the world watched as Hurricane Harvey submerged the city in an incomprehensible amount of water, and as freeways…

Last month, Mach-Hommy, the enigmatic Newark rapper, teamed up with producer Knxwledge for the collaborative EP The Spook... Mach-Hommy's already followed it up, but this…

Nas proclaimed Hip Hop Is Dead 10 years ago. He had to raise the stakes on the album with a grandiose title and statement to…

Tyler, The Creator and Earl Sweatshirt started out together as linchpins of the Odd Future crew, but they've gone separate directions in recent years, and…

As of yesterday, we've officially entered fall 2016. This shit is flying by, people. Apparently some of us got new Zodiac signs this past week,…

A quick note: I wrote this column yesterday afternoon, before the passing of Shawty Lo. Shawty Lo's death is obviously the most important thing that's…

Earl Sweatshirt has a habit of performing new material at concerts, and it's usually a treat when he does. A little over a week ago,…

Danny Brown's feverishly anticipated new album Atrocity Exhibition comes out at the end of the month, and today, we get to hear the song that…

Earl Sweatshirt and Tyler, The Creator started out together as underground-rap teenagers. But since their sudden fame, they've moved in different artistic directions, and it's…

Last month, Earl Sweatshirt shared the brief new songs "Pelicula" and "Balance." And over the weekend, on the latest edition of his Red Bull Music…

Afropunk is beautiful black weirdness, a huge celebration of black creativity that assembles some of the best crowds I have had a privilege of being…