Earl Sweatshirt drops new project ‘Some Rap Songs’ feat Navy Blue, Cheryl & others.
After giving us a couple of songs earlier this month, Earl Sweatshirt has released his new album ‘Some Rap Songs‘. The project contains 15 tracks with guest appearances from Standing On The Corner, Navy Blue, Cheryl, Harris, and Keorapetse Kgositsile.
Earl makes his debut as a producer on Some Rap Songs, handling the majority of the album’s production. Earl’s mother, Cheryl Harris, and late father, South African poet laureate Keorapetse Kgositsile, both provide vocals. Lead single “The Mint,” “Red Water,” “December 24,” and “Playing Possum” are among the album’s standout tunes.
Earl also released the second single off the album, “The Mint,” which features Navy Blue and was produced by Black Noi$e. “The Mint” is Earl at his most abstract, succinct, and off-kilter. A year of existential crises (“Two years I’ve been missin’, livin’ life”) and time spent battling his demons (“Bumpin’ shoulders with the devil in disguise”) are shown in fleeting moments. It’s a perplexing and intriguing survival story. “In terms of the lineage of all the sh*t that I’ve done, ni**as have really really grown up with me. I’m a surviving child star.”
Some Rap Songs will be the follow-up to its creator’s critically praised full-length I Don’t Like Sh*t, I Don’t Go Outside, which was released in 2015 “Me and my dad had a relationship that’s not uncommon for people to have with their fathers, which is a non-perfect one,” Earl shared via last week’s press release, detailing the themes of Some Rap Songs. “Talking to him is symbolic and non-symbolic, but it’s literally closure for my childhood. Not getting to have that moment left me to figure out a lot with my damn self.”
Stream the album below.
