On the cover of Some Rap Songs, the latest album from the enigmatic and reluctant rap star Earl Sweatshirt, there’s a shaky photograph of an unknown smiling person blurred beyond any easy identification, as though the photographer dropped the camera in the middle of taking the shot. It’s an apt visual metaphor for the music itself, both in the image of a spark of life amidst chaos, and in the sense that the creative process of taking the photo may have been ruptured as it was happening. Some Rap Songs is a portrait of an artist in the midst of...
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