The end of the year is a time to look back, reflect, and dig into the albums and songs that we may have glossed over the first time around. One such track is "Chum," a ruminative, self-reflexive, and wrenchingly emotional piece of hip-hop from Odd Future's Earl Sweatshirt. This is a kid whose homophobia and shock-tactics have given way to some of the best wordplay in contemporary hip-hop. It says a lot that after all the controversy with OFWGKTA, two members winded up being gay (or at least not ...
The end of the year is a time to look back, reflect, and dig into the albums and songs that we may have glossed over the first time around. One such track is "Chum," a ruminative, self-reflexive, and wrenchingly emotional piece of hip-hop from Odd Future's Earl Sweatshirt. This is a kid whose homophobia and shock-tactics have given way to some of the best wordplay in contemporary hip-hop. It says a lot that after all the controversy with OFWGKTA, two members winded up being gay (or at least not ...
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