He was born to Keorapetse Kgositsile and Cheryl Harris. His father was a South African poet and political activist, whereas his mother was a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has a brother named Randy Mafalanka. His father died at the age of 79 due to illness on 3 January in South Africa. He holds American nationality and belongs to black ethnicity. His birth sign is Pisces. He started rapping at a very young age.
Career of Earl Sweatshirt. Personal Life of Earl Sweatshirt. Earl previously dated model Mallory Llewellyn in Their relationship ended because of Earl's drug problems.
He then dated another model Kinda Salty in This relationship did not work out either after Kinda suspected him cheating on her. He currently lives in Hollywood, California.
Are you in a better space? Earlier in the year, we got word that you canceled some tour dates, and you were saying there was depression. For a long time this year, I was still kind of in shock and still can be shocked by the fact that my dad died. That shit really threw me the fuck off. And especially at your age. Yeah, it really fucked me up. We make movies in our heads, you know? Where this happens. And then this happens as a result of that. So, then when that shit happened with my pops … I talked to my brother, who I saw was doing better.
I can do it. I can see this. Going through that existential thing, plus other existential elements of my pops, him being a public figure, the public figure that he is. And then being Earl Sweatshirt on top of it? At a certain point, I put my head down, and we did our shit and buried our father.
But at a certain point, all of the pressures just kind of broke me. Just the idea of having to perform while I was kind of in this weird space, it was like, no fucking way. Why would I risk it? I need to process and heal some things for myself before I can be presenting myself. I recorded all that shit before he died.
Oh, man. But that album, even the shit where my dad is speaking, I was gonna just drop that, not tell him, and tell him to send a cease-and-desist if he wanted. So, you were working through the relationship in your head and in your music, and you were just going to present it to him.
Did he ever get to hear it? It was a crazy one, bro. I wondered what you meant by that. I was just remembering, man. You know, people pass, and they get in your head, if you spent enough time with them. I was listening to all the joints that me and him did. All I remember what that nigga was always on with me and Vince [Staples]. This shit hard. It was ridiculous. Yeah, let loose some cargo. Malcolm was one of those niggas like that, bro. He was moving real fast. A lot of the shit that we hold on to that slows us down, that makes us care about different shit and makes us second-guess?
It can make a man complacent. He absolutely did move faster than most people I know. I had the luxury of interviewing him this past August. He was just talking to me about concepts for cover art for new stuff. Yeah …. So, today is the tenth anniversary, incidentally, of The Odd Future Tape. I came in after that. I was like in eighth, ninth grade. Whatever grade I was in, that shit set that grade on fire, boy. It was like, oh shit. I have a question from way back. This is , when you first started getting flack for your lyrics.
I was always curious what the thought process behind that was. Earl stated in an interview with NPR that his record label gave him no notice they would release the album. He says he considers this his first album because he feels he can "back up everything, the good and the bad". He described it as "music from when I hit the bottom and found something. On July 30, , Sweatshirt expresses feelings of wanting to change his current rap name, simply tweeting "im finna change my rap name lol".
He continues with "it's not about hating my past I just found a flight name that makes me laugh more than earl sweatshirt does" and "I ain't finna tell y'all till I got some music to drop with it. Just be on standby". On August 6, , frequent collaborator Dash teases at a collaboration with Sweatshirt titled "Hunnit Beez".
On September 4, , Sweatshirt is video recorded in the studio with hip hop producer 9th Wonder, potentially a future collaboration. On November 25, , Philadelphia-based singer-songwriter Santigold released the music video for her song "Who Be Lovin' Me", which Sweatshirt appears in as a cameo in multiple parts of the video. Sweatshirt soon stated that it was indeed a leak and not an official release. On January 27, Kanye West shared a photo of an updated handwritten track list of his then upcoming album The Life of Pablo that featured Sweatshirt's signature "EARL" above a doodle of Sweatshirt's nose and lips, potentially hinting at a collaboration on the album.
This, however, did not happen. Sweatshirt explained that the song was originally meant to be on I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside but was not included because "the tracklist got fucked up" due to sample clearing issues. The animated music video for "Mirror" was released on June 21, On August 17, Sweatshirt was featured on Adult Swim's singles program on the 13th week's track "Balance", produced by Knxwledge.
Krule explained the collaboration in August by stating:. The posse cut was Brown's third single to his fourth studio album Atrocity Exhibition , which was released on September On December 23, , Sweatshirt plays a previously unheard track rumored to be called "Bad Acid" on his radio show Stay Inside. On February 27, , Sweatshirt reveals that his upcoming album is being recorded by tweeting "making the album for you rn".
Sweatshirt later confirms on June 26, that the track was in fact yet another leak and not an official release from him. The same song was also included on Fahim's album Dump Goat , released September 4, On July 21, , New York rapper Mike explains in an interview how Sweatshirt has taken the role of a mentor in his music career. On October 25, , Sweatshirt announces his new clothing brand called Deathworld.
It was initially only available at Camp Flog Gnaw on October 28 and 29 until November 20, when Sweatshirt made the brand available on an online store. The same day, The Alchemist takes to Twitter to tease Sweatshirt's new album, saying the album "is stupid" and that he "played mouth harp on a couple joints". On December 31, , Sweatshirt confirmed that new music from him will be released in , tweeting "new chunes , don't think i wasn't at work".
On January 3, , Sweatshirt's father Keorapetse Kgositsile passed away from a short illness at the age of This affected Earl a great amount, causing him to cancel that month's episode of Stay Inside as well as going inactive for the duration of the month on all social platforms except for one Instagram post of a picture of Keorapetse.
On April 3, , hip hop producer Cardo revealed that him and Sweatshirt had plans of doing a collaborative project in and that he would like to revisit that conversation. The same day, on an Instagram live, Vessey confirmed that more music with Sweatshirt does exist and that he does have an album on the way. On April 23, North Carolina rapper Phonte revealed that Sweatshirt was originally going to be featured on his second studio album No News Is Good News on the track "Cry No More", but the idea was scrapped because Phonte "felt exploitative" to do that because of the recent passing of Sweatshirt's father.
On May 10, , Odd Future associate, photographer, and skater Sagan Lockhart shared a snippet of a scrapped The Neptunes -produced instrumental from , around the time Sweatshirt was first working on his debut album Doris.
On May 23, Chicago rapper Lucki reveals a possible remix of his song "Distant" featuring Sweatshirt, posting on his Instagram story a screenshot of a text conversation between him and Sweatshirt:. On June 4, , Sweatshirt canceled all dates of his European Tour and representatives of Sweatshirt release this statement:. He thought he would be ready to perform but simply is not yet able to. He would like to apologize to his fans and promises to be back as soon as he is able to. On July 20, , Sweatshirt was pictured with mastering engineer Mike Bozzi in a recording studio.
On July 31, Oxnard, California-based rapper M. Coli" featuring Earl Sweatshirt. On September 25, Sweatshirt tweeted this following tweet, alluding to new music to be releasing soon:. On October 4, , The Alchemist revealed that he has listened to Sweatshirt's upcoming album and deemed it a "masterpiece". On October 8, Vince Staples posts a picture on his Instagram of himself and Sweatshirt back in the studio together.
This video features a snippet of an instrumental accompanied my a clip of a supposed upcoming music video. The following day, November 8, Sweatshirt released the song " Nowhere2go " as the lead single to his upcoming third studio album. He performed a never-before-performed song unofficially titled "Run For Your Life". Sweatshirt also performed songs from his albums Doris and I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside , as well as various non-album singles, more unreleased music, and even brought out Na'kel Smith and Rico Nasty to perform their respective songs.
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