Discovered by Tyler, the Creator in 2009, American rapper Earl Sweatshirt (born Thebe Neruda Kgositsile in Chicago on February 24, 1994) joined the OFWGKTA collective (aka Odd Future) the following year. His first mixtape, Earl, released the same year, attracted public attention, but his behavioral problems led his mother to have him committed to a specialized center in the Samoan Islands. When he regained his freedom and returned to the U.S. in 2012, buoyed by his growing reputation, he recorded the album Doris (#5 in 2013), which became one of the major rap releases of the year. In 2015, his second album, I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside: An Album by Earl Sweatshirt reached No. 12 in the U.S. charts. It was another three years before the release of the following opus, Some Rap Songs (#17 in 2018), on which his late father Keorapetse Kgositsile collaborated. The rapper's fourth studio album, Sick! comes after the Feet of Clay EP in 2019 and is released in early 2022. Preceded by the singles "2010", "Tabula Rasa" with Armand Hammer and "Titanic", it reached No. 80 on the Billboard 200. After collaborating with The Alchemist on Voir Dire in 2023, Earl Sweatshirt returned to solo work in 2025 with Live Laugh Love, which he wrote, composed and produced. The following year, he collaborated with Mike and Surf Gang on the double album Pompeii // Utility.
