I met earl in 2013 and he looked at me and said “you look like a man who likes a good bowl of Cocoa Puffs”. I will never forget that, ever. Even if he had. Because I happen to love Cocoa Puffs and Earl somehow knew this...
Earl Sweatshirt's father was one of the most important South African poets of the 20th century. His name was Keorapetse Kgositsile. He was the Poet Laureate of South Africa, and a member of the African National Congress. He wrote and organized in exile in the United States for about 27 years. The 60's poetry group The Last Poets took their name from one of his poems. Thus, Thebe descends from a rich, rich heritage of Griots - African village storytellers and truth tellers. The bars he speaks of are boiling through his bloodline. I bring Keorapetse's name into this space because he is part of Thebe's story, no matter how difficult that story may be.
bro, when he came to my town for his some rap songs tour, he stopped the whole performance bc a guy at the front was, what i heard, having an epileptic attack. no one was helping the guy out and he was completely aghast by that. he said "how are you guys not doing anything?" "don't holler, this isn't funny or something to cheer about. get the guy some water."
They are both really smart, just in different ways. Earl's definetely like naturally a really deep thinker and u can tell he's really introspective and reflexive. But Tyler learns through his art, he creates and then he absorbs information.
can yall stop bringing up tyler constantly whenever talking about earl? they're their own people. weird af how earl's fans never shut up about tyler just because they used to make music together close to a decade ago
She is a really talented interviewer. Eases an uncomfortable Earl into conversation with something personal, adding her own input, never interrupting. Other interviewers should take note
Crasher Anton I forget who I heard say this but the Earth has been here long before us and will be here long after us. Having plastic in the oceans instead of in the ground doesn’t affect the earth, that shit will just come back to bite us. Basically we are only fucking ourselves over not the Earth
I'm just waiting for an Earl album with good vibes and positivity. This dude is just oozing with good shit but a lot is stored up and his grandma passing certainly didn't help.
Him talking about academia intellectualizing real issues hit home for me. Before all the protests sparked a bunch of social media activists’ careers, I attended this event surrounded by “woke” black intellectuals and thought leaders. I was in a group discussion with someone I once respected. After I expressed a somewhat radical yet complete thought, he asked me where I went to school. I told him “Nowhere at the moment,” and the way his face changed, it was as if he was repulsed by my existence. It clicked then just how fake this stuff is. My thoughts no longer have value because I’m not repping some institution? This is why I represent me and don’t name drop anything or anyone at events. Are you sincere, conscious, and empathetic or not? Are you serious about making things better or parroting other people’s ideas? It’s all that matters to me now.
Amber Jones thebe didn’t even go to college so it was prob his anti social awkwardness . and how much he knows pretty sure he knows that you do not need college . Or he was disagreeing what ever you said
Definitely. Definitely feel like it's an unnecessary form of gatekeeping, elitism, and you could even say it's anti-Black since at the foundation of US academia there's white supremacy
But I think there’s something to learn there. A lot of young people today see something on social media and regurgitate it and become “woke” or “activists.” We don’t look up to professionals and leaders that have done the work and actually know what they are talking about whether we agree with them or not. So yes! Represent yourself and your opinions, but in rooms where problem solving is involved we need leaders and professionals to guide us. They know more whether we like it or not. We young people are building ourselves up right now. One day we’ll take the torch after them, but we have to educate ourselves first. Right now, so many people are speaking in the room, I can’t hear the professionals.
@@destinyx1636 No dude. A lot of our Black PhDs, professionals, leaders go to school or do a lot of research because they want to help the people, but no one is listening. We love to question them and discredit their work. They have done the work. They know what they are talking about. Let’s leave room for them to speak as we take several seats. Most young people today are “woke” because we regurgitate what we see on social media. That’s dangerous. We should admit we don’t know what we are talking about most of the time and allow professionals to pour their advice down to us younger kids.
It makes sense Earl's mom' is a distinguished law professor at UCLA. He's clearly a gifted kid, he was passionate about music and his mom and him didn't see eye to eye. It's so nice to see them together amicably with Earl all grown up.
Earl Sweatshirt's father was one of the most important South African poets of the 20th century. His name was Keorapetse Kgositsile. He was the Poet Laureate of South Africa, and a member of the African National Congress. He wrote and organized in exile in the United States for about 27 years. The 60's poetry group The Last Poets took their name from one of his poems. Thus, Thebe descends from a rich, rich heritage of Griots - African village storytellers and truth tellers. The bars he speaks of are boiling through his bloodline.
She did an ok job but I felt the questions were shallow for a guy who rarely does interviews and the “it’s easier to control the narrative” comment on having closure on a public forum was kinda offputting. Maybe hot ones ruined my standards of internet journalism.
Earl is easily the most intellectual to come out of OF. I feel like his emotions conflict with his fame, and what he wants to be known for, or not be known of. He appears to battle himself hard, and I admire his breaking of doing what's "popular".
Always loved his music, but that shit he did for Na-Kel on DNA will always have my respect. You could tell that dude needed to vent and Earl gave him a platform for it.
Roc Cygnus but 1 random internet guy doesnt know the actual context of the songs creation 2 hes talking like he was forced to go to an unaccredited high school bc his parents couldnt afford housing
And she's sitting there going "just be positive! 😁" That's not gonna fix anything, sorry to tell you. You've gotta try and see everything for what it is, not just be positive all the time because negativity makes you uncomfortable. Nothing has ever been fixed by going "I'm sure it'll all work itself out."
The part that he said we have to share resources make me think he knew it was coming but didn’t know how to tell us , then he drops that new song called Whole World 😬
@@igobyxoxomusicunderaxlprks9000 yeah but growing up in a household where these conversations are had and you’re encouraged to think critically and read and write of course your level of intellect and knowledge in certain areas is going to be higher than others who grew up comparatively normally
I met Earl Sweatshirt back in 2015 right after” I don’t like shit I don’t go outside”dropped he was performing outside of Boston University. I was walking towards the line when I saw him rappin to one of his boys right next to his tour bus while smoking a cigarette. I dapped em up and told him that he makes dope music and to keep doing what he does and I kept moving, he just gave me a smirk and said thanks bro. He’s a very humble dude!
Listen at 2:44 he called the coronavirus situation 3 months before it happened. Listen to your storytellers. Sometimes fiction can shine more light on truth than reality can
If you’re reading this don’t forget to pour water on the dumpster fire that is this world. And for the longevity of your mental health it is better to face your battles than submit to what everyone else wants for you. You will suffer more in submission, LOVE!
Y’all don’t understand how much older Earl is now lol. He just ain’t the same teenager when he blew up. Very much so the same person but he don’t care about harnessing the same amount of energy he used to put out.
well yeah, he loved mf doom. his persona as earl was fantastic! but like bumpy knuckles said to doom: "It's like, it's like a long time coming man for people to get a chance to look into the mind of a villain, you know like somebody who really has a serious outlook on their craft, you know there's a lot of clowns out here with you know, painted faces and when they take the paint off, It's just a clown with no paint on their face" when he takes the paint off, you realize that he's real as shit, and you could feel it through his character the whole time.
It's not even that his amount of energy has diminished, he was never all that prolific to begin with. it's just that he's channeling it into such a different place now. If anything, I'd say he's actually more dedicated now than ever.
I'm 26, feel like I've been listening to Earl for the entire decade. Really impacted my 2010s. Glad he's in a positive space where he can do long-ass interviews with his mums like this
+ when you think about the environment Thebe was raised in it makes sense. He grew up with two genius knowledgeable and poetic leaders for parents, you would understand the impact of these topics on a personal degree. Which to me seems like why he is motivated to uncover within himself. One of my favourite things about Thebe as an artist is his passion for clarity and understanding. Really appreciating the insight of the generation before him and taking the role of paving the way for his own off the beaten path. But that sense of responsibility has gotta take a toll. His art is like reading a book, like a book that just gets better every time you read it and you learn something different. Thank you for your time and work Thebe.
acovarrubias12 Thebe’s just special to a certain audience that is invested in him as a person and artist. I grew up with him, he’s slightly older then me but we have similar tendencies and I really enjoyed his intricate vocabulary and unique perspective. Especially since I don’t have an older brother my father figure does his own thing so I learned a lit from artist I look up too. He has strong family morals I admire and his rhyme patterns are insane. It’s completely non traditional and appealing for people who vibe with distorted beats and mental puzzles. If I were new to his work I would go back to when he was sly tendencies and really listen. You’ll get it.
I feel like until 29:45 the video doesn't get super deep. But the fact that the first half hour focuses on Earl's strong relationship with his mom (despite how opposite their worlds look like) speaks volumes in the whole context of this and the whole culture of hip-hop.
Coming back 3 years later after learning a lot about colonialism through community and history books (one of which was Earl's recommendation for Noname's book club, 'Open Veins of Latin America' by Eduardo Galeano) and I just gotta say this opened up so much for me in my understanding of the subtext of what they talked about. Like one thing that stuck out to me is how Earl called hip-hop "slave music" and how not a lot of people know that the abolition of slavery in the US only included chattel-slavery and that the 13th Amendment written during that time stated how slavery has remained legal as long as a person is incarcerated. Slavery was never abolished in the US, especially for Black people. If you read the book 'The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness' written by civil rights lawyer Michelle Alexander, she lines out specific court cases, statistics and decades if not centuries of history and it explains how today even in 2023, about 1 in 3 Black people have legally been slaves just by being incarcerated. It goes deeper than just that legality, of course. The myriad ways of subjugation/oppression that is daily inflicted on Black people is arguably an ongoing genocide, which is probably what Earl refers to when he talks about how if slavery had gone right, Black people would not exist. If not for countless uprisings and revolutions across the world by Black people, the trajectory of US chattel-slavery would probably have ended in the eradication of Black people through breeding and genocide like they did to the Indigenous peoples of North America when US settlers like Abraham Lincoln expressed that the Indigenous people were beyond assimilating and needed to be killed.
Wow I love seeing Earl and his mothers energy when they are speaking together. Ive lost almost everyone in my life including my mother who I hadnt seen in twenty five years and passed recently. This had me tearing up at the thought of what it must be like to be on a stage with your mom to showcase your strength, connection and intelligence. Up in front of people both proud of yourselves and each other. Showing and giving support to what youve helped each other become...amazing human beings and thats beautiful to me. Thebe Kgositsile and Cheryl I. Harris thank you both for doing this and for being really real....love and respect to you both always!!
@@xXMastaXGamerXx he seemed pretty coherent to me. Didnt seem like he was out of it,overly tired, dying or on anything so not quite sure what you watched that had zombies in it fam......isnt it a good thing when you make your mom happy?
Earl, we met back in 2014 and at that time i'm sure you weren't in the best place and we had a pretty bitter encounter. They say "Don't meet your heroes" Honestly you were and still are my hero in the music game. Fast forward we are both much older and more mature to understand the weight of the world and be kept and professional. I, like many other young individuals on the internet i'm sure feel they know you personally seeing you on social medias and watching videos and you've become such an inspiration and such a humble man. My heart goes out to you and your family and I hope to hear more projects in the future.
Long story short he told me to fuck off and he was high as a kite.. I was on fair fax outside the OF store and all the OF homies were out there and idk. Maybe it was me but I thought I was being respectful but maybe he took it the wrong way.
i can't stop playing burgundy i've listened to the same song for like a month and a half please i'm calling for help i'm addicted to doris and idlsidgo
Nah duh it's been forever. He grew from OF years ago. And obviously you don't respect his artistry because y'all steady talking about needing new music smh. Music isn't a physically timed thing. He's not a rapper, he's a artist. He literally just dropped good music and if you were a supporter you'd know that the whole squad has been dropping fire music lately.
This is such a trip, not only was i thinking this for awhile, but NOW because of this Covid-19 What he said at 2:30 all the resources, what are we dealing with, RESOURCE SHORTAGES DUE TO PANIC BUYERS!!
Tbh I was expecting more from earl's moms but she a sweet lady so it's all good. I'm just glad Thebe got a great relationship with his mom and happy right now.
Earl Sweatshirt's father was one of the most important South African poets of the 20th century. His name was Keorapetse Kgositsile. He was the Poet Laureate of South Africa, and a member of the African National Congress. He wrote and organized in exile in the United States for about 27 years. The 60's poetry group The Last Poets took their name from one of his poems. Thus, Thebe descends from a rich, rich heritage of Griots - African village storytellers and truth tellers. The bars he speaks of are boiling through his bloodline.
Cheryl is such a well-spoken person. Obviously that's a given when you teach for a living and are able to develop your speaking abilities as time goes on, but she is just so insightful and has such a great outlook on the world.
Man it's fucking hard to maintain a conversation flow with Earl, props to the interviewer she did an spectacular job to keep things interesting and flowing
i love when she calls him the 'Master of Two Minutes' and it takes him a moment to process what she really means. this is amazing, thank y'all so much.
I feel like this needs to be said, what Tyler, Earl, and the rest of the OFWGKTA collective as an entire unit has done for us, was single handedly perform shadow work before our very eyes, they first told us "no matter how you are right now, be it, own it and always rebel" and now they're showing us how beautiful it can be on the other side of managing shadow work and darkness within ourselves every single day, just look at the trajectory of all of them from 2010 up until now yo..... No one else could have done what they did for a generation and I can't thank them enough. And all it took was bravery.
Seeing this really makes me appreciate his humility and recognition he has towards his mother and especially his mothers words in general. Much love towards this mans and everything he stands for, he's planted a trademark status for getting us hip of the beginning downfall of late stage capitalism. We must protect him, his mother and likeminded folks out here. Power to the People
Smart fella, so much he cant put into words for others to understand. You can clearly see he is trying to dumb it down. Long live thebe 🔥 Its heart warming when his mother says she admires and respects him. He looks really happy. Much love bro! I wrote this comment as i saw the video and all im thinking is that earls mom is a genius. She definitely knows 42:00 and definitely raised a prophet to go out there to represent “with the bars” 43:00. As a mexican, i really admire earl and his culture. But ill never forget about mine. When she says she think he would be a comedian if he wasn’t rapping all i could think of was, “why you got so many N E C K L A C E?” Hahaha.
"Few niggas I'm on a first name basis with address me by the alias that trunk weighted like he about to catch a case again eighth louder then the voice of satan that be plaguing him"
Earl is so lucky to have her as mom, must b cool to actually look up to your parents and aspire to b like them. I got some weak ass parents, love em tho
Dylan B see I love my parents too but I’m always gonna tell them that y’all don’t inspire or influence me to be anyone that why I look up too J Cole Bray Wyatt and 2pac.
Earl sweatshirt the type dude that looks at somebody and doesn’t judge them off anything he sees them as a blank sheet of paper to write their own character on.
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I met earl in 2013 and he looked at me and said “you look like a man who likes a good bowl of Cocoa Puffs”.
I will never forget that, ever. Even if he had. Because I happen to love Cocoa Puffs and Earl somehow knew this...
Dude that's awesome 🤣
Justen J that story was alright
Lmao damn
Brah this the most funny thing I come across in months
Lmao thats funny
Earl Sweatshirt's father was one of the most important South African poets of the 20th century. His name was Keorapetse Kgositsile. He was the Poet Laureate of South Africa, and a member of the African National Congress. He wrote and organized in exile in the United States for about 27 years. The 60's poetry group The Last Poets took their name from one of his poems. Thus, Thebe descends from a rich, rich heritage of Griots - African village storytellers and truth tellers. The bars he speaks of are boiling through his bloodline. I bring Keorapetse's name into this space because he is part of Thebe's story, no matter how difficult that story may be.
Yo thank you for this back story
“And then expectations rising because daddy was a poet”
Them *
Now I get when Taco said "This nga look like an African poet" on the first track on the 'Earl' album.
notmyname the fact that you know this 👌🏾
"My momma raised me a prophet."
Realest line he ever spit.
@Belarion A.D. tybg
@frenchfuck It's obviously a joke you dense fuck
@frenchfuck bruh chilll you outta pocket as fuck
frenchfuck cause it’s his name shut the fuck up
@Parkingconetushka damn G smoke a clip or something and chill
Met Earl in 2015, he conversed with us fans for like half an hour after a show when he really didn’t have to. Very humble dude then and now.
It may be his introversion, not sure what happened.
Ryan Kyle I don’t like shit tour?
bro, when he came to my town for his some rap songs tour, he stopped the whole performance bc a guy at the front was, what i heard, having an epileptic attack. no one was helping the guy out and he was completely aghast by that. he said "how are you guys not doing anything?" "don't holler, this isn't funny or something to cheer about. get the guy some water."
a riana that happened at the show I went too also,, energy was amazing innat room fr
That’s crazy
Earl looks like younger Earl in disguise
so he grew up?
Lmao
Denzel Waru he still is the same looking guy. If he shaved and went back to old Afro hair he’d look the same. I kinda miss that look tbh
He reappeared bearded.
@@ThatDamn_AndyV on top of a leer steering it into the kids ear again
Tyler is a smart/creative guy but Earl has always struck me as more introspective and thoughtful.
seem like Tyler try to be on Earls level of intellect where as Earl doesn’t have to try
They are both really smart, just in different ways. Earl's definetely like naturally a really deep thinker and u can tell he's really introspective and reflexive. But Tyler learns through his art, he creates and then he absorbs information.
can yall stop bringing up tyler constantly whenever talking about earl? they're their own people. weird af how earl's fans never shut up about tyler just because they used to make music together close to a decade ago
Mmm nice view but tyler gets more pressure tho
stevenistyping ikr, shit is annoying
She is a really talented interviewer. Eases an uncomfortable Earl into conversation with something personal, adding her own input, never interrupting. Other interviewers should take note
Thank you
That’s his mom
Pouria Moradi i think he mean the first person in the video
So many places where I thought she was gunna speak but she kept silent and let him keep answering
You can easily say the same for her co-host Talib Kweli on the podcast Peoples Party. She's great on there as well.
How his brain work so fast and slow at the same time lmao
ZGAMER777 he thinking faster than he speak lmao
Stoge Father I can relate
@@heemnificent me too bro shit make me not even want to speak at all how fast my mind moves 😂😂😂
Earl is literally me
bad acid, did damage to my mental
It takes a significantly high amount of honesty to defend and promote environmentalism then admit to not recycling enough.
Recycling doesn't matter much when just 100 companies create 71% of global emissions
@@ThatGuyBradley but every small step helps the earth even though it is a small impacz
@@ThatGuyBradley but you'd be a hypocrite if you trumpeted for a more environmentalist approach but then didn't do your part.
Crasher Anton I forget who I heard say this but the Earth has been here long before us and will be here long after us. Having plastic in the oceans instead of in the ground doesn’t affect the earth, that shit will just come back to bite us. Basically we are only fucking ourselves over not the Earth
And the earth can recover but you can’t say the same about us
Earl looks like he has taken the longest nap ever and just woken up
True
Plasterburrst Bro he talks like that too ☠️
Times are tiring
Crispyballoons Bro has to work zwith me the time I z
Crispyballoons Bro has to work '
He reappeared bearded on top of a lear steering it into us kid's ear again
Yes he did
Classic 🔥
@@JTK_00 It was Hive, not Whoa
Provider of the back drop music for a crack rock user in a mascot
Someone finally said it...
Why didn't ask him why he got so many necklace?
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BRO you gotta chill this took me all the way out😭😭
I don't get it
@@Davinciblack_ there is a funny sketch in loiter squad (Odd future's TV serie) where he says that.
davinci black
just search beyond scared straight loiter squad
Earl keeps to himself, but you can see how much knowledge he has stored up.
I'm just waiting for an Earl album with good vibes and positivity. This dude is just oozing with good shit but a lot is stored up and his grandma passing certainly didn't help.
and shares
@@ghostbehind9450 you gonna have to wait a while for a good energy album from him
@@ghostbehind9450 also his father passing must add on to all that
@@ghostbehind9450 the dark music is powerful
Him talking about academia intellectualizing real issues hit home for me. Before all the protests sparked a bunch of social media activists’ careers, I attended this event surrounded by “woke” black intellectuals and thought leaders. I was in a group discussion with someone I once respected. After I expressed a somewhat radical yet complete thought, he asked me where I went to school. I told him “Nowhere at the moment,” and the way his face changed, it was as if he was repulsed by my existence. It clicked then just how fake this stuff is. My thoughts no longer have value because I’m not repping some institution? This is why I represent me and don’t name drop anything or anyone at events. Are you sincere, conscious, and empathetic or not? Are you serious about making things better or parroting other people’s ideas? It’s all that matters to me now.
Amber Jones thebe didn’t even go to college so it was prob his anti social awkwardness . and how much he knows pretty sure he knows that you do not need college . Or he was disagreeing what ever you said
Definitely. Definitely feel like it's an unnecessary form of gatekeeping, elitism, and you could even say it's anti-Black since at the foundation of US academia there's white supremacy
This woke stuff is nothing but elitism. That’s why Hollywood is full of it.
But I think there’s something to learn there. A lot of young people today see something on social media and regurgitate it and become “woke” or “activists.” We don’t look up to professionals and leaders that have done the work and actually know what they are talking about whether we agree with them or not. So yes! Represent yourself and your opinions, but in rooms where problem solving is involved we need leaders and professionals to guide us. They know more whether we like it or not. We young people are building ourselves up right now. One day we’ll take the torch after them, but we have to educate ourselves first. Right now, so many people are speaking in the room, I can’t hear the professionals.
@@destinyx1636 No dude. A lot of our Black PhDs, professionals, leaders go to school or do a lot of research because they want to help the people, but no one is listening. We love to question them and discredit their work. They have done the work. They know what they are talking about. Let’s leave room for them to speak as we take several seats. Most young people today are “woke” because we regurgitate what we see on social media. That’s dangerous. We should admit we don’t know what we are talking about most of the time and allow professionals to pour their advice down to us younger kids.
It makes sense Earl's mom' is a distinguished law professor at UCLA. He's clearly a gifted kid, he was passionate about music and his mom and him didn't see eye to eye. It's so nice to see them together amicably with Earl all grown up.
Earl Sweatshirt's father was one of the most important South African poets of the 20th century. His name was Keorapetse Kgositsile. He was the Poet Laureate of South Africa, and a member of the African National Congress. He wrote and organized in exile in the United States for about 27 years. The 60's poetry group The Last Poets took their name from one of his poems. Thus, Thebe descends from a rich, rich heritage of Griots - African village storytellers and truth tellers. The bars he speaks of are boiling through his bloodline.
Girl in the beginning does a great job not dragging questions and actually making it seem like a genuine conversation by adding some of her input.
she looks like iris west
o00thunderhawk00o has to go look that up lol she’s a pretty girl
verison9.5 Thank you 😊
She did an ok job but I felt the questions were shallow for a guy who rarely does interviews and the “it’s easier to control the narrative” comment on having closure on a public forum was kinda offputting. Maybe hot ones ruined my standards of internet journalism.
@@kamphychair hot ones is dope tho. Shawn's questions be insightful and wholesome @ the same time.
He holds the mic like he's going to spit fire and she holds it like a librarian giving a speech
This video hit so different now..
Swear
Well he's a rapper and she's a professor lol
@@AjeethRajesh i know it's just funny that you can tell so much about them by the way they stand
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Bruh if you look at Earl's face long enough he looks like a kid in a rasta man costume
Oh my god i died
BRUHHHH
That forehead incredible 😩😩🙏
Chris 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Chris boy you high as shit
“you need to smoke?”
“no- *yeah* “
"I hit the spliff but don't promote it under overpass" 😅💯
no - no, that's not why I'm acting like this
yeah - well yeah I always could use a blunt
DanielleEstZen LMFAAO very accurate
It's a feelin
for those interested in what Cheryl is talking about, check out the writings of Frantz Fanon, Kwame Ture, Walter Rodney etc.
Bobtheclamm shouts to the only comment addressing the actual content of the video lmao 👏🏾
Fanon a real nigga
And Amos Nelson Wilson, and Alton Henry Maddox Jr. and Bobby Eugene Wright
Also read Kwame Nkrumah, Fred Hampton, Huey P Newton.
Also look up Noble Drew Ali! Let’s get to the really real...
Earl look like he in a parent teacher conference
Earl is easily the most intellectual to come out of OF.
I feel like his emotions conflict with his fame, and what he wants to be known for, or not be known of.
He appears to battle himself hard, and I admire his breaking of doing what's "popular".
franky is too, but hes also his own genre as well.
Tylers matured alot too since the OF days.
he sounds like a fucking moron in this interview...
He should be smart since his mother Cheryl is a UCLA professor and put Earl aka Thebe in the best LA private schools.
They all got knowledge and different perspectives in life to share worth acknowledging earl always just been that nigga with a different type a depth.
Always loved his music, but that shit he did for Na-Kel on DNA will always have my respect. You could tell that dude needed to vent and Earl gave him a platform for it.
Benjamin Franklin why do people talk like this ? tHaT sHiT hE dId Fo , bro shut up you dont know what your talking about just being a goofy
@@雌わ雄 He's talking about when Na-Kel found out that one of his best friends had passed. That's what his verse on DNA was about
Roc Cygnus but 1 random internet guy doesnt know the actual context of the songs creation 2 hes talking like he was forced to go to an unaccredited high school bc his parents couldnt afford housing
@@雌わ雄 because its a fact, fuck head. They've both talked about it in interviews. Fuck off.
Good Shepherd stfu you sound goofy you the sheep.
with this pandemic going on now, earl’s words about society collapsing in the beginning of the video are chilling to hear
and again right now after this past week's events with George Floyd
@@montueswedthursfri real talk, foreshadowing at its finest
as someone from the future i can confirm
Was looking for this comment 💯
@@bladep5653 now, do you really think we’ll believe that shit, be honest
I think Earl don't even know that he one of the best in the game💯
Lamar Shaw facts
*East music intensifies
I am sure he does. But why would you care when you know it's a game
@@harrison777ify2 W
I mean kendrick can agree
You know you're a great artist when all your interviews are rare and appreciated by all. Thebe, wish you the best for the next decade!
"I'm doing bad, but I know what's going on" earl just summed up the entirety of the human race in one sentence
And she's sitting there going "just be positive! 😁"
That's not gonna fix anything, sorry to tell you. You've gotta try and see everything for what it is, not just be positive all the time because negativity makes you uncomfortable. Nothing has ever been fixed by going "I'm sure it'll all work itself out."
"I know what's real even when I'm feeling bad"
peace to every crease on your brain
we giving praise and glory to ya name, kid
ahh fuck I skipped a line
Peace to who came before me in the game
@@BrotherMalMusic we giving praise and glory to yuh name kidddd
On*
Wee Woo I was gonna correct him too but I said fuck it lol
Hard to find real people in hip-hop nowadays... Protect Earl at all costs.
in general *
Word
You really must not know hip hop... what are you...18...21...
Rahiem Wahid stop being salty bruh chill with that negative energy
Hollywood elites always have security...
can’t believe this happened 3 months prior to this outbreak ...
The part that he said we have to share resources make me think he knew it was coming but didn’t know how to tell us , then he drops that new song called Whole World 😬
Outbreak?
@@dragonwithshades Weird ass conspiracy theories.
Elaborate
Earl really inherited an insane amount of intellect from his parents..
you dont inherit intellect bruh
@@igobyxoxomusicunderaxlprks9000 yeah but growing up in a household where these conversations are had and you’re encouraged to think critically and read and write of course your level of intellect and knowledge in certain areas is going to be higher than others who grew up comparatively normally
@@igobyxoxomusicunderaxlprks9000 You can't prove this, intellect like all other human gifts are genetic.
You won’t see this but you are wrong
@@Dill112 I hear ya bud!
Earl's mom needs a verse on the next album
Shaun Edson RattPack till my pulse flat
She already got one on some rap songs
@jordyn seawright wym
@@Scere she and earl's dad were sampled on playing possum
@@eero4516 yeah but it's not a verse
Earl be talking in codes but than his mom solves them. You can tell they related both they minds work the same
That's actually sort of beautiful
@@greatestevar swag
@@greatestevar Cool story bro 👍 except 👀 I don't care 💅💅💅💅💅
@@greatestevar thog dont caaare
@@greatestevar thog dont care
Notice how his mom holds the mic like a professional and how he’s holding the mic the same way he holds it when he raps
Saw it !
She's a professional speaker.
And he was extremely nervous.
He holds it like a professional rapper
Taariq Moore it’s not that deep lol
Taariq Moore I don’t think that was his point it was just an observation
I met Earl Sweatshirt back in 2015 right after” I don’t like shit I don’t go outside”dropped he was performing outside of Boston University. I was walking towards the line when I saw him rappin to one of his boys right next to his tour bus while smoking a cigarette. I dapped em up and told him that he makes dope music and to keep doing what he does and I kept moving, he just gave me a smirk and said thanks bro. He’s a very humble dude!
@@greatestevar u dumb as sh!t
@@greatestevar you never dapped someone up b4?
lmao i don’t think it was just a cigarette
Listen at 2:44 he called the coronavirus situation 3 months before it happened. Listen to your storytellers. Sometimes fiction can shine more light on truth than reality can
he really grew up thats crazy
“I been grown boy”
That’s not crazy, that’s life. Growth and Development.
Q.Smitty L.E.O. TV someone missed the joke
Who doesn't miss EARL earl
Elliott Lee Yeah you right
I love how the interviewer notices his body language and lets him talk. Much more chill than him having to interject.
Zuzu Superfly Thank you 🙏🏽
Yes I would agree. You did a great job Jasmine
Zac preston thank you
Jasmin’s World you’re so flyyy.. what’s your instagram ID? 😍😍
Cyrus LastLaff @realjasminleigh
I love how this is shot. All her shots are steady, symmetric, even. While all of his are steadily moving & zooming in & out.
If you’re reading this don’t forget to pour water on the dumpster fire that is this world. And for the longevity of your mental health it is better to face your battles than submit to what everyone else wants for you. You will suffer more in submission, LOVE!
The water >> dumpster fire analogy also stuck with me the most. Well said broski
Appreciate this message brother, thank you
Thanks bro, much love from Texas
Sha Crow thank u bro.
I just ss that.. deep.
Y’all don’t understand how much older Earl is now lol. He just ain’t the same teenager when he blew up. Very much so the same person but he don’t care about harnessing the same amount of energy he used to put out.
well yeah, he loved mf doom. his persona as earl was fantastic! but like bumpy knuckles said to doom:
"It's like, it's like a long time coming man for people to get a chance to look into the mind of a villain, you know like somebody who really has a serious outlook on their craft, you know there's a lot of clowns out here with you know, painted faces and when they take the paint off, It's just a clown with no paint on their face"
when he takes the paint off, you realize that he's real as shit, and you could feel it through his character the whole time.
dog well put
dog aight bro lol
@@dhamage2k that's when shit got serious back in 2015... you immediately recognized the difference between the young earl and now. Even Doris
It's not even that his amount of energy has diminished, he was never all that prolific to begin with. it's just that he's channeling it into such a different place now. If anything, I'd say he's actually more dedicated now than ever.
The way Earl opens up to the first interviewer is beautiful.
*Cheryl Sweatshirt*
This is it chief
Thanks yall
The best suggestion by far!
bro that’s my name on ig and I didn’t even know his mom name was Cheryl till now. Gotta change it
@@dorfinn2196 message her or Thebe first so no one steals it haha
you can tell he's so nervous. i would too. this made me reflect a lot on how me and my mom talk. she is also a sacred person to me.
Let me tell you, I’ve had a fucking year. And hearing 2 new earl projects , and this interview , is a breath of fresh air
Earl shouting out billy woods makes my day. need them to collab.
I'm 26, feel like I've been listening to Earl for the entire decade. Really impacted my 2010s. Glad he's in a positive space where he can do long-ass interviews with his mums like this
I love how Earl holds the microphone like he's rapping at all times 😂
+ when you think about the environment Thebe was raised in it makes sense. He grew up with two genius knowledgeable and poetic leaders for parents, you would understand the impact of these topics on a personal degree. Which to me seems like why he is motivated to uncover within himself. One of my favourite things about Thebe as an artist is his passion for clarity and understanding. Really appreciating the insight of the generation before him and taking the role of paving the way for his own off the beaten path. But that sense of responsibility has gotta take a toll. His art is like reading a book, like a book that just gets better every time you read it and you learn something different. Thank you for your time and work Thebe.
i don't get it. like i get it. but don't get why this dudes so special. put on a pedestal i should say.
acovarrubias12 Thebe’s just special to a certain audience that is invested in him as a person and artist. I grew up with him, he’s slightly older then me but we have similar tendencies and I really enjoyed his intricate vocabulary and unique perspective. Especially since I don’t have an older brother my father figure does his own thing so I learned a lit from artist I look up too. He has strong family morals I admire and his rhyme patterns are insane. It’s completely non traditional and appealing for people who vibe with distorted beats and mental puzzles. If I were new to his work I would go back to when he was sly tendencies and really listen. You’ll get it.
@@acovarrubias12 I would say he is being elevated to elevate others. We need this.
This interview made me respect earl recent album 100% more. Top 5 Artist Of All time.
Earl's mom is such a beautiful woman
ong id clap
@@cocosmokes what bro 😭
@@zurik77 you feel me🤝🤝🤝🤝
I feel like until 29:45 the video doesn't get super deep. But the fact that the first half hour focuses on Earl's strong relationship with his mom (despite how opposite their worlds look like) speaks volumes in the whole context of this and the whole culture of hip-hop.
Thanks for doing this🙌🏾
Coming back 3 years later after learning a lot about colonialism through community and history books (one of which was Earl's recommendation for Noname's book club, 'Open Veins of Latin America' by Eduardo Galeano) and I just gotta say this opened up so much for me in my understanding of the subtext of what they talked about.
Like one thing that stuck out to me is how Earl called hip-hop "slave music" and how not a lot of people know that the abolition of slavery in the US only included chattel-slavery and that the 13th Amendment written during that time stated how slavery has remained legal as long as a person is incarcerated. Slavery was never abolished in the US, especially for Black people. If you read the book 'The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness' written by civil rights lawyer Michelle Alexander, she lines out specific court cases, statistics and decades if not centuries of history and it explains how today even in 2023, about 1 in 3 Black people have legally been slaves just by being incarcerated. It goes deeper than just that legality, of course. The myriad ways of subjugation/oppression that is daily inflicted on Black people is arguably an ongoing genocide, which is probably what Earl refers to when he talks about how if slavery had gone right, Black people would not exist. If not for countless uprisings and revolutions across the world by Black people, the trajectory of US chattel-slavery would probably have ended in the eradication of Black people through breeding and genocide like they did to the Indigenous peoples of North America when US settlers like Abraham Lincoln expressed that the Indigenous people were beyond assimilating and needed to be killed.
Vulnerability and comfortability shows a lot in human nature.
Sounds like you talking bout Earl
He’s born and bred through greatness he’s beautiful through and through
Wow I love seeing Earl and his mothers energy when they are speaking together. Ive lost almost everyone in my life including my mother who I hadnt seen in twenty five years and passed recently. This had me tearing up at the thought of what it must be like to be on a stage with your mom to showcase your strength, connection and intelligence. Up in front of people both proud of yourselves and each other. Showing and giving support to what youve helped each other become...amazing human beings and thats beautiful to me.
Thebe Kgositsile and Cheryl I. Harris thank you both for doing this and for being really real....love and respect to you both always!!
U wild that man a zombie trying to make momma happy
@@xXMastaXGamerXx he seemed pretty coherent to me. Didnt seem like he was out of it,overly tired, dying or on anything so not quite sure what you watched that had zombies in it fam......isnt it a good thing when you make your mom happy?
Sorry to hear that man :( but yes it must be a beautiful thing to imagine.
They’re so in tune it’s great to see the little signs they give one another throughout the video
Stay strong bro 🙌
Earl, we met back in 2014 and at that time i'm sure you weren't in the best place and we had a pretty bitter encounter. They say "Don't meet your heroes" Honestly you were and still are my hero in the music game. Fast forward we are both much older and more mature to understand the weight of the world and be kept and professional. I, like many other young individuals on the internet i'm sure feel they know you personally seeing you on social medias and watching videos and you've become such an inspiration and such a humble man. My heart goes out to you and your family and I hope to hear more projects in the future.
What happened?
Long story short he told me to fuck off and he was high as a kite.. I was on fair fax outside the OF store and all the OF homies were out there and idk. Maybe it was me but I thought I was being respectful but maybe he took it the wrong way.
are you white
MaceJa wot
MaceJa nah bro, I’m light skin like earl.
If anything ever happens to this man.. I will cry rivers upon rivers. Hes the last young artist after Mac who really cares about the world
Shut up
Kendrick?
“Talk to Joey, Earl, Kendrick, and Cole, gatekeepers of flow
They are extensions of instinctual soulIt's the highest in commodity grade” - ATCQ
Classic album
JBadge
Cole is shit
cole is fucking dogshit
@@insertausernamehere4515 lmao why
I feel like earl has grown so much as an individual since OF. I’m proud of him and can’t wait for new music
Fr bruh I feel like I grew up with him
Adrian Rogers Ong bro
i can't stop playing burgundy i've listened to the same song for like a month and a half please i'm calling for help i'm addicted to doris and idlsidgo
Nah duh it's been forever. He grew from OF years ago. And obviously you don't respect his artistry because y'all steady talking about needing new music smh. Music isn't a physically timed thing. He's not a rapper, he's a artist. He literally just dropped good music and if you were a supporter you'd know that the whole squad has been dropping fire music lately.
D X ayt.
This is such a trip, not only was i thinking this for awhile, but NOW because of this Covid-19
What he said at 2:30 all the resources, what are we dealing with, RESOURCE SHORTAGES DUE TO PANIC BUYERS!!
Its Wild
Respect the hell out of him as an artist & just as a person, so grounded & intelligent.
EARL SWEATSHIRT INTERVIEW EARL SWEATSHIRT INTERVIEW
Moe Barnes what does he mean when he says year 4 of 8 45 at 40:07 that illuminati shit
ncs649 referring to the 4th year of the possible 8 year presidency of the 45th president
RARE RARE RARE RARE
i been waiting for another one
Moe Barnes y’all gotta play back EARL for the culture , that’s how he came up th-cam.com/video/3hzym5u3tNk/w-d-xo.html
I love how earl seems like he doesn't know what hes gonna say and then a second later hes deep in a conversation
"Rap is slave music it has to be spoken in code" great way to end the interview even tho this wasn't the main topic at hand.
Isiah Finley that’s real tho
Damn..
Tbh I was expecting more from earl's moms but she a sweet lady so it's all good. I'm just glad Thebe got a great relationship with his mom and happy right now.
Earl Sweatshirt's father was one of the most important South African poets of the 20th century. His name was Keorapetse Kgositsile. He was the Poet Laureate of South Africa, and a member of the African National Congress. He wrote and organized in exile in the United States for about 27 years. The 60's poetry group The Last Poets took their name from one of his poems. Thus, Thebe descends from a rich, rich heritage of Griots - African village storytellers and truth tellers. The bars he speaks of are boiling through his bloodline.
@@tjtube65 "the bars he speaks of are boiling in his bloodline" holy shit
Dude this is one of best things I’ve seen. You can tell that they have a conversation like this everyday
Earl giving his mother a platform to speak on and about things such as the conversations she was left out of its really lovely.
Cheryl is such a well-spoken person. Obviously that's a given when you teach for a living and are able to develop your speaking abilities as time goes on, but she is just so insightful and has such a great outlook on the world.
Gotta protect earl at all cost, this young man is a King.
I love how Earl holds his mic like he does when he's performing and his mother holds hers the way literally anyone besides a rapper would lol
Hope all is well for Thebe and anyone reading.
thanks bro same for you.
Peace to you.
Look up JBadge
My man looks healthy and these dreads suits him well!
The Erkenbrand locs*
@@bilalali7336 thanks for the correction
The Erkenbrand very welcome
They really do
If they freeform then FREEFORM FTW
I could listen to Earl and his mom talk together for hours, Really glad they did this and I hope they'd do it again. Waitin on her mix tape.
People are literally just commenting son quotes ain’t even watching the thing
DankPills lmfao FACCS
Deadass🤦🏽♂️niggas wanna sound so cool and try so hard to make it seem like they are the bigger fan than the other,fuckin weirdos
@@ThaHKBlower That's the most annoying thing about former OF musicians fanbases.
Fr a bunch of zombies. Fake supporting
It's boring. It's like listening to your parents tell an unrelated life story
im 21 soon to be 22 and i have that same feeling of feeling like the world is too much.
Thanks EARL and mama sweatshirt this comforted me lol
Man it's fucking hard to maintain a conversation flow with Earl, props to the interviewer she did an spectacular job to keep things interesting and flowing
*thebe is really...a beautiful soul.*
He really hates when people that aren't his close friends refer to him that way
Earl and his Mom kind of reflects this generation right now and relationships with they parents
Big facts
He looked like he really needed to smoke throughout the interview.
how could you tell?
@@47circles15 you can tell by how antsy and fidgety he is
i love when she calls him the 'Master of Two Minutes' and it takes him a moment to process what she really means. this is amazing, thank y'all so much.
what does it mean?Not done yet
@@lochofmceo premature ejaculation
microwav shush
Loch121 she means that he can say so much with his music in only a 2 minute song
@@cgarcia3137 youre clearly wrong
"The concept of the loop keeps coming back." Dropping bars while he talks
Come on now let’s all work together. We need a Earl sweatshirt podcast! I’m ready to donate right now
I'd love to see Andre 3000 and Earl have a conversation
L PHILLIPS hell yeah 2 legends having a conversation would be the best thing that’s ever happened
He grip that mic like he spitting bars.Lool like chill. Look how different his mum holding the mic. Lol . Love the dude.
I feel like this needs to be said, what Tyler, Earl, and the rest of the OFWGKTA collective as an entire unit has done for us, was single handedly perform shadow work before our very eyes, they first told us "no matter how you are right now, be it, own it and always rebel" and now they're showing us how beautiful it can be on the other side of managing shadow work and darkness within ourselves every single day, just look at the trajectory of all of them from 2010 up until now yo..... No one else could have done what they did for a generation and I can't thank them enough. And all it took was bravery.
I’m inspired by them
Balance
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Ive been trying to tell a different story
I ain’t got time for feeling sorry
@@oblivionaccess Tell Grandma I'll be with her shortly
JLifeAdvice I won’t panic when they send her for me.
This should be our greatest export yet. Love, from South Africa.
Feet of Clay*
27:07 Time stamp for earls mom asking him what music he's been listening to and Earl mentioning billy woods.
Bend we don't break
We not the bank
swing we don’t miss
we all we got
switch whips relocate
way outta state
@@khoahuynh9646 Bada Bing Bada bam it's the puppet master all of the strings in my hands
Im so glad he released it!
Seeing this really makes me appreciate his humility and recognition he has towards his mother and especially his mothers words in general. Much love towards this mans and everything he stands for, he's planted a trademark status for getting us hip of the beginning downfall of late stage capitalism. We must protect him, his mother and likeminded folks out here. Power to the People
Thebe and his mom are such chill people.
Don't call him his real name, you dont know him
@@gmoney2372 that's the dumbest shit I've read all day
@@lostmyedge_ he has stated that he prefers that people that don't know him to refer to him as his alias
@@lotusberry725 where'd you hear that
Smart fella, so much he cant put into words for others to understand. You can clearly see he is trying to dumb it down. Long live thebe 🔥
Its heart warming when his mother says she admires and respects him. He looks really happy. Much love bro!
I wrote this comment as i saw the video and all im thinking is that earls mom is a genius. She definitely knows 42:00 and definitely raised a prophet to go out there to represent “with the bars” 43:00. As a mexican, i really admire earl and his culture. But ill never forget about mine.
When she says she think he would be a comedian if he wasn’t rapping all i could think of was, “why you got so many N E C K L A C E?” Hahaha.
IT SMELL LIKE BITCH IN HERE
@@aceydoesmusic ALL Y'ALL SMELL LIKE BITCH TO ME
his mom is cheryl harris who is literally one of the best academics when it comes to race and blackness in america
bryan zzz its clearly visible, bless her for making a prodigy🔥
"Why you out here spilling beans man plug your mixtape!" Yooo had me dying. I loved this whole thing sooo much.
If you dont mind can you check me out when you can th-cam.com/video/SFZJRruysgY/w-d-xo.html
good grief..
I been reaping what I sow
nigga i aint been outside in a minute i been livin what i wrote
mama taught me how to read ‘em when i look
Miss me at the precinct getting booked
Fishy niggas stick to eating off of hooks
Good afternoon Thebe
Benjamin Kyle bruh do yk Parker Trager he’s my cousin and a cuber from Long Island
lbwr bkyle
"Few niggas I'm on a first name basis with address me by the alias that trunk weighted like he about to catch a case again eighth louder then the voice of satan that be plaguing him"
Earl is so lucky to have her as mom, must b cool to actually look up to your parents and aspire to b like them. I got some weak ass parents, love em tho
Dylan B see I love my parents too but I’m always gonna tell them that y’all don’t inspire or influence me to be anyone that why I look up too J Cole Bray Wyatt and 2pac.
“Welcome to my life”
@@marksotelo6472 🤣 loiter squad reference?
Comment sections are wild AF .....as for "I got some weak ass parents" 💀
@@sedi2066 😁
Cause time waits for no man and death waits with cold hands im the youngest old man that you know.
TurntUpJuiceMan if ya soul intact let me know
Solace
Earl sweatshirt the type dude that looks at somebody and doesn’t judge them off anything he sees them as a blank sheet of paper to write their own character on.
Wow
@@chrismalinowski654 ikr
Her voice is mad soothing
yea!!! thanks earl!