LISTEN: Earl Sweatshirt Drops “Some Rap Songs” Album

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Earl Sweatshirt dropped a new album — “Some Rap Songs” — on Friday with features from Navy Blue, Standing on the Corner, and more.

Just a few weeks after the release of his single — “Nowhere2Go” — Earl Sweatshirt released the third studio album of his career — Some Rap Songs. The album, mostly produced by Sweatshirt himself, is a taut 25 minutes long despite a 15-song tracklist. Rather than standard procedure, the Odd Future alum has most songs ringing in under two minutes, a tactic I’ve never seen before.

Listen to the avant-garde project below via Spotify:

According to PitchFork, the majority of Some Rap Songs “were written before the death of Earl’s father Keorapetse Kgositsile.” Despite that, Earl’s mother and father are both featured on “Playing Possum.” Check out the entire tracklist below:

“Some Rap Songs” Tracklist:

  1. Shattered Dreams (prod. Earl Sweatshirt)
  2. Red Water (prod. Earl Sweatshirt)
  3. Cold Summers (prod. Earl Sweatshirt)
  4. Nowhere2Go (prod. Darryl Anthony & Adé Hakim)
  5. December 24 (prod. Denmark)
  6. Ontheway! feat. Standing on the Corner (prod. Earl Sweatshirt)
  7. The Mint feat. Navy Blue (prod. Black Noise)
  8. The Bends (prod. Sage Elsesser)
  9. Loosie (prod. Earl Sweatshirt)
  10. Azucar (prod. Earl Sweatshirt)
  11. Eclipse (prod. Earl Sweatshirt)
  12. Veins (prod. Earl Sweatshirt)
  13. Playing Possum feat. Cheryl Harris and Keorapetse Kgositsile (prod. Earl Sweatshirt)
  14. Peanut (prod. Earl Sweatshirt)
  15. Riot! (prod. Earl Sweatshirt & Shamel of SOTC)

Another thing Earl did for Some Rap Songs that’s different than most other albums in the genre is that he’s offering hard copies on his website. If you’d like, you can buy Some Rap Songs on CD, cassette tape, or vinyl here.

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