Earl sweatshirt

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Earl sweatshirt 2012
Earl sweatshirt 2012
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Doris
  UK 23 08/31/2013 (2 weeks)
  US 5 07.09.2013 (5 weeks)
I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside
  UK 53 04/04/2015 (1 week)
  US 12 04/11/2015 (4 weeks)
Some rap songs
  UK 75 December 13, 2018 (1 week)
  US 17th December 15, 2018 (2 weeks)
EPs
Feet of Clay
  US 102 11/16/2019 (1 week)

Earl Sweatshirt (born February 24, 1994 ; real name Thebe Neruda Kgositsile ) is an American rapper , producer , songwriter and member of the hip-hop collective Odd Future .

biography

Earl Sweatshirt's parents are Cheryl Harris, a professor at the University of California , Los Angeles, and Keorapetse Kgositsile , a South African poet and political activist. Sweatshirt grew up in Los Angeles and graduated from New Roads High School in Santa Monica. His father left him at the age of six, and he deals with this fact in the song Chum .

Before Thebe started rapping under the name Earl Sweatshirt, he was a member of The Backpackerz group as Sly Tendencies . In 2009, Tyler, the Creator Earl discovered on his Myspace page, on the tracks of his mixtape Kitchen Cutlery were published. The mixtape was neither completed nor officially released. Earl Sweatshirt joined the hip hop collective Odd Future . After Earl released his first mixtape Earl , he disappeared. His mother had taken him to Coral Reef Academy , a therapeutic school for young men outside the Samoan capital, Apia , because of his frequent marijuana use and school problems . He had therapy two or three times a day, swam with whales, watched all of The Mentalist's episodes , learned to play the piano, and read Manning Marable's Malcolm X biography. On February 8, 2012, the rumor spread that Earl was back in America . In a video uploaded to YouTube , he promised to publish a full track should he get 50,000 followers on Twitter . The project succeeded within three hours, after which Home was published on its website. At the end of the track, Earl confirms his return with the words " ... and I'm back. Bye. ". Earl Sweatshirt runs its own label, Tan Cressida , which is supported by Columbia Records . Nevertheless, future publications will also appear under the Odd Future logo.

In November, the single Chum was released after Earl returned from Samoa . On November 12th, he announced that his third album would be called Gnossos , and that the title of his second album Doris will be released in December . The official music video for Chum came out in December. On March 6th he presented three new songs ( Burgundy , Hive and Guild ). The song Whoa was released on March 12th via iTunes.

Discography

Studio albums

  • Doris (2013)
  • I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside (2015)
  • Some Rap Songs (2018)

EPs

  • Feet of Clay (2019)

Mix tapes

  • Earl (2010)

Albums with Odd Future

  • Radical (2010)
  • The OF Tape Vol. 2 (2012)

List of titles as guest musicians

title year album Artist
AssMilk 2009 bastard Tyler, The Creator
CopKiller 2010 YelloWhite Mellowhype
Stick up 2010 Ali Mike G
Chordaroy 2010 BlackenedWhite Mellowhype
PNCINTLOFWGKTA 2012 Customized Greatly Vol. 3 Casey Veggies
oldie 2012 The OF Tape Vol.2 Odd future
Super rich kids 2012 Channel Orange Frank Ocean
Elimination Chamber 2012 No idols Domo Genesis & The Alchemist
Daily News 2012 No idols Domo Genesis & The Alchemist
Gamebreaker 2012 No idols Domo Genesis & The Alchemist
P2 2012 Numbers Mellowhype
Between Friends 2012 Duality Captain Murphy
Rusty 2013 wolf Tyler, The Creator
JM 2013 Jellyfish Mentality The Jet Age Of Tomorrow
Yacht lash 2013 High tide Harry Fraud & Riff Raff
Robes 2014 Pinata Madlib & Freddie Gibbs
Ramona Park Legend (Part 2) 2015 Summertime '06 Vince Staples
Really doe 2016 Atrocity Exhibition Danny Brown

Music videos

title year Director
Earl 2010 AG Rojas
Chum 2012 Hiro Murai
Whoa 2013 Wolf Haley
Grief 2015 Hiro Murai

Collaborations

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Chart sources: UK US
  2. Brief review of Pinata by Madlib & Freddie Gibbs including Robes with Earl Sweatshirt , published on April 4, 2014, accessed on June 3, 2015.