Just a little over a month after releasing his album I Don't Like Sh*t, I Don't Go Outside, Earl Sweatshirt is back with yet another new project. Yesterday, without much prior promotion, the Odd Future emcee dropped a 10-minute, single-stream effort titled Solace on YouTube with the message: "Music from when I hit the bottom and found something," hence the album title.
The surprise project wasn't actually a secret for fans that were following the rapper's recent interviews closely. Back in March, while promoting his last album, he discussed the project with NPR.
"We set up a studio at my house and I did a little project real fast," he explained. "It's called Solace. It's more for my mom."
As MTV points out, the rapper's mother, who sent her son away to a Samoan Military Academy just as Odd Future began to take off, is even referenced on the album.
"When they drag me out the gutter," he rhymes. "Mail the ashes to my mother."
While the rapper was away, fans were outraged at the Earl's mom and began the "Free Earl" campaign while he was away with her as the target of their hate.
The rapper spoke about her experience recently in an interview with Grantland.
"People was all in her emails, people were calling her and sh-t, it was at the height of the [Odd Future] sh-t," he said. "N----s was driving by the house slow. She was scared to go to work."
Check out the jazz-influenced project below, and let us know what you think in the comments section.
