Artist:
Earl Sweatshirt
Genre:
Rap
Total Time:
24:00
Record Label:
Warner Records
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Release Date
August 22, 2025
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Earl Sweatshirt
Genre:
Rap
Total Time:
24:00
Record Label:
Warner Records
Purchase Album (click links):
CD, Amazon Music, Vinyl,
Apple Music
Release Date
August 22, 2025
"The Entertainment Factor is supported by its audience. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission."
Find out more about this album release after the jump.
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Product Description: In the decade since 2015’s I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside dropped, Earl Sweatshirt transformed from Odd Future’s mumbly alumnus into one of the most unique hip-hop artists of his generation. The acerbic idiosyncrasies and deceptively lethargic flow that made the ruminative rapper so compelling early on in his run metamorphosed over time to place him in an even less categorizable stratum. More recent work, like 2022’s SICK! or the following year’s VOIR DIRE with The Alchemist, found him seemingly examining and embracing the possibilities of brevity, doing more by saying less and keeping his projects as concise as they are insular.
In line with that apparent methodology, Live Laugh Love contains songs that are often quite brief, filling the space provided by his curatorial left-field beat selections with pithy, incisive bars and comparatively looser vocal riffs. Some of these producers have been by his side for a while, namely Black Noi$e and Navy Blue who, respectively, contribute to roughly half the tracks. Apart from a sole instrumental from underground climber Child Actor—the murkily soulful 2 Fast 2 Furious nod “Heavy Metal aka ejecto seato!”—the remainder come from Theravada, a New York-based artist who Earl’s fans may recall from SICK!’s “Tabula Rasa.” The first four songs here benefit from his beats—from the squirmy filter funk of “gsw vs sac” through the percussive jolts of “Gamma (need the 3).”
Yet regardless of who happens to be behind the proverbial boards, Live Laugh Love is anchored by Earl’s unconventional appeal and discursive proclivities. “INFATUATION” mixes metaphors as if they were recipes, serving up tastily reconstructed wordplay seasoned with heady poetry. Among the longest songs here, “Live” cautiously raises one of the album’s oft-revisited trope dissections—dying on a hill—before spiraling downwards with a beat-flip to match the mood. The slightly redacted “CRISCO” offers up a fractured narrative flecked with graphic imagery, while “WELL DONE!” subversively flexes in different directions than most rappers could even attempt. On the closing “exhaust,” he comments on both work ethic and something far more personal, vacillating between civil splits and parting words of wisdom, albeit with the occasional Erykah Badu interruption.
In line with that apparent methodology, Live Laugh Love contains songs that are often quite brief, filling the space provided by his curatorial left-field beat selections with pithy, incisive bars and comparatively looser vocal riffs. Some of these producers have been by his side for a while, namely Black Noi$e and Navy Blue who, respectively, contribute to roughly half the tracks. Apart from a sole instrumental from underground climber Child Actor—the murkily soulful 2 Fast 2 Furious nod “Heavy Metal aka ejecto seato!”—the remainder come from Theravada, a New York-based artist who Earl’s fans may recall from SICK!’s “Tabula Rasa.” The first four songs here benefit from his beats—from the squirmy filter funk of “gsw vs sac” through the percussive jolts of “Gamma (need the 3).”
Yet regardless of who happens to be behind the proverbial boards, Live Laugh Love is anchored by Earl’s unconventional appeal and discursive proclivities. “INFATUATION” mixes metaphors as if they were recipes, serving up tastily reconstructed wordplay seasoned with heady poetry. Among the longest songs here, “Live” cautiously raises one of the album’s oft-revisited trope dissections—dying on a hill—before spiraling downwards with a beat-flip to match the mood. The slightly redacted “CRISCO” offers up a fractured narrative flecked with graphic imagery, while “WELL DONE!” subversively flexes in different directions than most rappers could even attempt. On the closing “exhaust,” he comments on both work ethic and something far more personal, vacillating between civil splits and parting words of wisdom, albeit with the occasional Erykah Badu interruption.
TRACK LIST:
1 .
gsw vs sac
(01:56)
2 . FORGE (01:24)
3 . INFATUATION (01:36)
4 . Gamma (need the <3) (02:01)
5 . WELL DONE! (01:11)
6 . Live (03:30)
7 . Static (01:23)
8 . CRISCO (02:39)
9 . TOURMALINE (02:54)
10 . Heavy Metal aka ejecto seato! (03:07)
11 .exhaust (02:29)
2 . FORGE (01:24)
3 . INFATUATION (01:36)
4 . Gamma (need the <3) (02:01)
5 . WELL DONE! (01:11)
6 . Live (03:30)
7 . Static (01:23)
8 . CRISCO (02:39)
9 . TOURMALINE (02:54)
10 . Heavy Metal aka ejecto seato! (03:07)
11 .exhaust (02:29)
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