After producing for some of New York’s best over the years, he sets his sights on Rochester’s underground emcee Rigz. The result is a slick, glossy and luxurious New York standard affair ...

By Ismail Muhammad / Photographs by Arielle Bobb-Willis When I met Thebe Kgositsile, the rapper and producer who performs as Earl Sweatshirt, in the greenroom of the Warfield in San Francisco ...

Earl Sweatshirt finally found his way to the Tonight Show stage Monday night to promote his new album Sick!, performing the not-quite-nostalgic single “2010.” Ironically, it was just after ...

This past summer, Kelefa Sanneh proposed that he write about Earl Sweatshirt, a preternaturally ... has an air of crisis management. In New York City, a shadow economy helps new arrivals find ...

Devotees of Earl Sweatshirt and The Alchemist have been ... Alchemist, sitting on the balcony during an alarmingly warm fall day in New York adds, “I like to think from the perspective of ...

Earl Sweatshirt’s real name is Thebe Kgositsile, and he is the son of South African poet Keorapetse William Kgositsile, whose best-known work inspired members of a legendary New York proto-rap ...

For the rapper and producer known professionally as Earl Sweatshirt, self-awareness was ... is that’s not necessarily accurate,” says New York Magazine music critic Craig Jenkins, who ...

The first voice listeners hear on Some Rap Songs, Earl Sweatshirt‘s latest album ... Artist’s Struggle for Integrity” speech at New York City’s Community Church. In it, he explains ...

and Boldy James will join Earl Sweatshirt on the 19-date run. The trek will kick off on January 29 at San Diego’s Observatory before hitting other cities such as Los Angeles, Chicago, New York ...

Earl Sweatshirt is back again after the release ... who recently completed a whole EP with gritty New York rapper Conway The Machine. For around three minutes and thirty seconds, Earl and Maxo ...