Earl Sweatshirt
Earl Sweatshirt, native Thebe Neruda Kgositsile ( born February 24, 1994) is an American rapper, producer, songwriter and member of the hip-hop collective Odd Future.
Life
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. He grew up in Los Angeles and graduated from the New Roads High School in Santa Monica. His father left him at age six, this circumstance he processed in the song Chum.
Before Thebe began rapping under the name Earl Sweatshirt, he was in the group The Backpackerz as Sly Tendencies member. In 2009, Tyler, The Creator Earl discovered on his MySpace page, were published on the tracks of his mixtape Kitchen Cutlery. The mixtape was not completed yet officially published. Earl Sweatshirt joined the hip- hop collective " Odd Future ". After Earl had published his first mixtape Earl, he verschwandt. His mother had brought him for his frequent Marijuanakonsums and school problems for Coral Reef Academy, a therapeutic school for young men outside the Samoan capital of Apia. He had two to three times a day therapy, swimming with whales, to all episodes of the series The Mentalist looked at, learned to play the piano and read Manning Marables Malcolm X biography. On 8 February 2012, the rumor spread, Earl was back in America, in a video uploaded on YouTube, he promised to publish a full track, he should get 50,000 followers on Twitter. This was achieved within three hours, after which Home was published on his website. At the end of the title Earl confirmed his return with the words " ... and I'm back. Bye. ". Earl Sweatshirt runs his own label Tan Cressida which is supported by Columbia Records. Nevertheless, future publications will be under the Odd Future logo appear.
In November, the single, Chum appeared after Earl returned from Samoa. On November 12, he announced that his third album will be called Gnossos to then publish in December the title of his second album, Doris. The official music video for Chum came out in December. On 6 March, he presented three new songs (Burgundy, Hive and Guild ). The song Whoa was released on March 12 via iTunes.
Discography
Studio albums
- Earl (2010)
- Doris (2013 )
Albums along with Odd Future
- Radical ( 2010)
- The OF Tape Vol 2 (2012 )
List of songs as a guest musician
Music videos
Collaborations
- EarlWolf (along with Tyler, The Creator)
- Sweaty Martians (along with Matt Martians )