Earl Sweatshirt

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Image courtesy of Sala Apolo.

Few stories in 21st-century hip-hop are as fascinating as the character arc of Earl Sweatshirt. From his role as a kind of younger brother within the Odd Future collective, when Tyler, The Creator invited him to join the crew in 2009, to becoming the spiritual father of an entire generation of rappers who, in his image, conceive of the genre as an imperfect and flawed reality, Sweatshirt has lived several lives. Between the teenage MC who emerged on the internet fifteen years ago and the modern successor to MF DOOM that he is today, he has undergone a remarkable evolution. And he is still just over thirty.

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