He also later confirmed on his new Twitter account that he had returned to his home in Los Angeles. Three hours passed and Sweatshirt reached 50, followers and did release a new song on his website, entitled "Home", in which he ends the song with " On March 20, a video released on the official Odd Future YouTube page featured Earl in a cypher-style music video rapping along to his verse from "Oldie" with the other members of the crew. He turned down several other larger offers due to his priority of remaining close to Odd Future.
Earl Sweatshirt was also featured on MellowHype's third studio album and major label debut, Numbers on the track "P2". On November 2, Earl released his first solo single since his return from Samoa, titled "Chum". On November 12, he announced in a tweet that his second studio album will be titled, Doris. On December 4, Earl released the official music video for "Chum". Earl also confirmed the next single to be titled "Whoa" featuring Tyler, The Creator.
The song was released to iTunes on March 12, , along with the music video being released, which was directed by Tyler. Production was primarily handled by Sweatshirt under the pseudonym randomblackdude and production duo Christian Rich.
In September , Complex named Sweatshirt the tenth best producer in hip hop. Upon its release, Doris was met with universal critical acclaim from music critics, including perfect scores by The Guardian and Los Angeles Times , which praised Sweatshirt's rhyme schemes and lyrics along with the gritty underground production. On October 10, , Earl confirmed that he had completed the album to follow-up Doris.
On November 5, , he released a new song entitled "45" produced by The Alchemist. On March 17, , Earl released a music video, for the song "Grief". Earl spits out two teeth and pulls out a fingernail; by the end, nearly everyone is catatonic, or foaming at the mouth, or both. His voice has a pubescent twang, but he sounds disconcertingly calm and clear, especially given his chosen subject matter.
Their noxious attitude was seductive, and so, too, was their earnest devotion to the old-fashioned craft of hip-hop: subtle rhythms and unexpected rhyme endings, do-it-yourself beatmaking and engrossing storytelling. The members became viral stars long before they were proven ticket-sellers, let alone record-sellers; they built their audience almost entirely through streams and downloads. As Odd Future has barged into the hip-hop mainstream, it has charmed listeners by sneering at them.
There is something profoundly nostalgic about this strategy: Odd Future sometimes seems intent on resurrecting the bad old days, when hip-hop was scary, even if that means concocting sadistic fantasies or reinforcing old prejudices. The rise of Odd Future has turned Tyler into a new-media celebrity, a role he was born to play. Shit Was Wild! The other members of the group have become cult celebrities, too.
Two more rappers, Domo Genesis and Mike G, are known for unhurried verses that both proclaim and evoke their shared dedication to marijuana. Matt Martians makes spaced-out funk. Travis Bennett, known as Taco, and Jasper Dolphin are members but not really musicians; their uselessness has become a running joke. Because the members declined to say where or what, precisely, Earl needed to be freed from, many fans assumed his mother was the culprit.
He was some sort of hip-hop prodigy—the most exciting rapper to emerge in years, a virtuoso who was just starting to figure out what he could do with words—but he was gone.
In , Americans bought about seven hundred and eighty-five million albums, according to Soundscan, and about a hundred million of them— No form of music has suffered more from the industry collapse than hip-hop, a restless, technologically savvy genre wedded to a stubbornly old-fashioned business model.
Country music has listeners still eager to buy CDs, and indie rock has bands willing to think of themselves as online startups and supporters willing to go along ; hip-hop is stranded somewhere in between.
Fans gorge themselves on free online mixtapes, which are often more vibrant than the albums they ostensibly promote. At the same time, even established acts find themselves hard at work in the old industry, chasing terrestrial radio airplay and night-club spins in pursuit of a diminishing customer base.
For the members of Odd Future, hip-hop looks less like a road to financial salvation and more like a playground, full of rusty old attractions and rickety new ones; its dilapidated condition only offers more opportunities for mischief. One night, Tyler was discussing an emerging hip-hop star who had recently spent sixty thousand dollars on a chain. Odd Future was a social club before it was a hip-hop collective, and the members maintained their recreational approach even as they got more serious about music.
They started putting together albums long before they had a clear idea how, exactly, to make this activity profitable.
After school and on weekends, they got together to make beats and record their raps, often at a place they call the trap. Taco and Syd the Kyd live with their parents in the elegant house the garage belongs to.
Over a selection of famous and obscure hip-hop beats borrowed—or, if you like, stolen—from established acts, the members introduce themselves. Earl Sweatshirt begins one track by sneaking some autobiography into his wordplay:. Fans looking to defuse lyrics like these have sometimes pointed out that the group includes one lesbian, Syd the Kyd.
Neither does the word nigger. I got over that long ago. Although all the members of Odd Future are African-American, their music, especially the raps of Tyler, the Creator and Earl Sweatshirt, sometimes recalls that of the Beastie Boys and Eminem, white rappers who used exaggerated truculence, early in their careers, to prove that they belonged.
They won acceptance from black listeners and adoration from white ones. Odd Future, too, seems to attract a largely white audience, which is by no means unusual or irremediable but which remains a sensitive subject. Tyler once answered a question on this topic with a mixture of pride and resignation. Tyler is more than six feet tall, with a deep, resonant voice, but he moves with the sprightliness of a little kid, pausing for the occasional coughing fit brought on by asthma. He favors bright-colored Vans, slim-fitting shorts, and white tube socks, which he pulls up almost to his knees.
He hates being bored, and he has developed two strategies for keeping boredom at bay: either he entertains the people around him, thereby alleviating his misery, or he torments them, thereby sharing it. On a recent afternoon, he and the others were summoned to a local park to be photographed by the Los Angeles Times , and, once the shoot was over, Tyler found himself perilously underoccupied. Maybe I am! An older white man shuffled past with his family, dragging a bag on wheels. The man stopped, turned, and stared.
A friend arrived with a car and a video camera; the group was gathering material for a proposed show on Adult Swim, on the Cartoon Network. One idea was to have Tyler drive while Jasper, on his skateboard, held on to the passenger-side window and got pulled along. Tyler started slowly, but then turned onto a side street and accelerated, and so did Jasper—who then swiftly decelerated in a pile of trash bags.
Tyler pulled over and got out of the car. A campaign was launched by an anti-violence group to prevent Odd Future performing, based partly on prior occurrences of the group supposedly inciting violence by their fans towards members of the public, and by the group's lyrics allegedly supporting rape and violence towards women.
Immigration New Zealand canceled the visa of some group members because of prior acts of inciting violence, including one where the group allegedly encouraged fans to attack members of the police. Wiki Content. Recent blog posts Forum. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account?
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