This Friday (November 30), Earl Sweatshirt will release his third album, Some Rap Songs. The tracklist for the album has now been revealed on iTunes, as Exclaim! points out. The 15-song record includes collaborations with New York rapper/producer Navy Blue (“The Mint”) and Standing on the Corner. In addition, a track called “Playing Possum” features Earl’s parents, Cheryl Harris and the late South African poet laureate Keorapetse Kgositsile. Find the tracklist below.
According to the press release for Some Rap Songs, prior to Kgositsile’s death in January 2018, Earl and his father were “roughly a month out from from a reunion that would facilitate a long-anticipated conversation.”
“Me and my dad had a relationship that’s not uncommon for people to have with their fathers, which is a non-perfect one,” Earl said in a statement. “Talking to him is symbolic and non-symbolic, but it’s literally closure for my childhood. Not getting to have that moment left me to figure out a lot with my damn self.”
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Some Rap Songs:
01 Shattered Dreams
02 Red Water
03 Cold Summers
04 Nowhere2go
05 December 24
06 Ontheway! [ft. Standing on the Corner]
07 The Mint [ft. Navy Blue]
08 The Bends
09 Loosie
10 Azucar
11 Eclipse
12 Veins
13 Playing Possum [ft. Cheryl Harris and Keorapetse Kgositsile]
14 Peanut
15 Riot!
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