Earl Sweatshirt - "Whoa" Video

Late last year, the recently returned and ferociously talented young Odd Future rapper Earl Sweatshirt — who, let the record show, is still a teenager — gave us the introspective, endlessly compelling “Chum” and its stark, creeped-out video. But as Earl gleefully shows on “Whoa,” his new collab with old buddy Tyler, The Creator, he hasn’t pulled some complete aesthetic switchup. It’s the first recorded use of the phrase “that old fuckin’ 2010 shit,” and it’s a gallumphing and awkward Tyler synth beat with some fired up but densely compacted verbiage from Earl (“the misadventures of a shit-talker / Pissed as Rick Ross’s fifth sip off his sixth lager”). Tyler, under his Wolf Haley alias, also directed the track’s new video, which returns Earl to Odd Future’s antic junk-shop style, as he cuddles a top-heavy middle-aged ballerina and reclines in a stagnant trash-puddle at the bottom of an empty pool while someone skateboards all around him. Members of the extended Odd Future family, including Trash Talk, make cameos. Watch it below.

Earl’s album Doris is out this year on Tan Cressida/Columbia Records. We’ve also posted video of him debuting three more new songs.

Comments (13)
  1. Nice seeing those two together as a pair. EARLWOLF has some potential.

  2. This song is very enjoyable. I’m glad Tyler and Earl are finally making music together again.

  3. Album is gonna be sick… just hold the Mac Miller please!

  4. Tyler loves the R-E U-P G-A-N-G.

  5. This and Chum are exactly what I hoped Earl had in him when I heard his first record.

  6. The track is great, but can’t Tyler just let Earl do some music on his own without him being featured on every damn track. I understand he produces a lot of the beats and whatnot, but I’m tired of every one of his verses mentioning wolf gang, golf wang, etc.

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  8. its come to the point where so many believe that Tyler is the most overrated OF member that they have decided to not like him and now its like he is the most underrated due to his perceived overrated status. what.

  9. but as a producer/rapper tyler is one of the most unique out there and earl’s verses speak for themselves.

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