Earl Sweatshirt has completed his deal with Columbia Records. In an interview with Pitchfork, the enigmatic MC said 2018’s Some Rap Songs LP was his final album for the label.
“I’m excited to be free because then I can do riskier shit,” he noted.
According to Earl, making an album like Some Rap Songs while signed to a major label was a difficult endeavor. Now, it appears he’s ready to return to his underground roots and make music with no sense of limitations.
“Figuring out how you can be radical from within the system breaks your head,” he told Pitchfork. “That’s where I’m really at: that frustrating-ass place. And this is the best attempt I got. Only so much can happen above ground.”
Although it seems Earl’s creative process was arduous, he still managed to create a challenging work of art within the confines of a major label. In HipHopDX’s review of Some Rap Songs, Daniel Spielberger praised Earl’s “esoteric lo-fi production and imperfect style” for making the LP one of the 2018’s “most intriguing projects.”
Stream Earl’s Some Rap Songs below.
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THATs way to say “My label dropped me.”
Only a couple songs over 2 mins. I’ll pass.
“most intriguing projects.” lmao
– I was looking forward to his latest project but this is shit is not intriguing, its fucking lazy half ass rap songs of him mumbling half ass verses on half ass mixed beats, and these assholes praise this fake woke shit and call it hip hop. Even the song names are fucking lazy..fuck this album.
I actually agree with you and I’m a huge earl fan. I know every lyric off I Don’t Like Shit but this new album straight trash.
What’s riskier than making stupidly sampled beats and rapping like you have balls in your mouth?….
I thought it said “reveals he’s a fa66ot” and was like yeah that makes sense.
You salty. I ddnt like his last album either but you sound big mad. All you internet trolls talk soo much trash but at the end of the day.. your here on a post about an artist you don’t like giving them attention. Obsessively pathetic
mGK is that you? Can we get a few more songs about your bitch leaving you and you cutting yourself?
Nobody checking for Earl the Hooded Sweater
Nobody wants to listen to this f%ck boy.
Maybe he could head over to Shady or aftermath… oh, wait.
So he wants to make something even more unconventional than SRS now? That’s what’s up I guess. Fuck what you said, I thought the album was dope. The instrumentals were immaculate, the flow was inaccessible but the lyrics weren’t lazy like everyone says, his flow was just intentionally weird. He wasn’t making shit for everyone, but the ones who did get it will say the album was classic in the future.
You’re right, when we finally get to a place where kids are more incoherent and can’t string together more than 4 words at a time, he will finally take his place at the top of this art form and become a rap god!!!!!
Dude, that album was booty butt cheex…
die
Riskier?. Does it mean more uninspired, effortless bullshit that we only don’t call mumble rap cuz it’s not on a trap beat?
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