Earl Sweatshirt
NeTi I---
Demographics
Gender Male
Birth Name Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
Birthplace Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Birth Date February 24, 1994
Ethnicity Southern/West African
Father Tswana South African
Mother African-American
Nationality American
Career Rapper, singer, poet, songwriter, record producer
Color Season Dark Autumn
Notes and Motifs
Member of alternative hip-hop music collective Odd Future
Lionel Boyce, Tyler, the Creator, and Frank Ocean were also members of Odd Future
Also known as Sly Tendencies and randomblackdude
NeTi I--- Adaptive
NeTi I--- Adaptive
Sweatshirt: "All rappers are princesses like me."
Sweatshirt: "Rapping is the only time I'm serious."
Sweatshirt: "Miscommunication is the number one cause of all problems; communication is your bridge to other people. Without it, there's nothing. So when it's damaged, you have to solve all these problems it creates."
Sweatshirt: "I'm obsessed with proverbs because, to me, flexing is being able to say the most with the least amount of words."
Sweatshirt: "I just write like a grown man, because that's what I listen to. I'm not even speaking complicated English... I don't do five-syllable words, I don't do four-syllable words. This is English. Rudimentary English."
Sweatshirt: "The only thing that can combat fear is action. And there's two actions. There's fight and flight."
Sweatshirt: "I've been awkward forever. I have really low expectations for myself. When I do perform to some sort of social standard, I leave feeling really comfortable. I'm either so awkward that I look r*tarded or I'm so awkward that everyone else feels r*tarded."
Sweatshirt: "The words that are coming out of my mouth and how I mean them, it's so much different."
Sweatshirt: "In every person, you have a world of personalities and souls, a world of perspectives that you can share. You can get into anyone's shoes. You've got to be willing to stare at the ugliest part of yourself and deal with it."
Sweatshirt: "Sometimes videos make a bad song very tight."
Sweatshirt: "Everyone's like sheep on social media; like, one person starts making noise, and everyone's like, 'Hey, yeah!' and then you got a whole bunch of people making noise at you."
Sweatshirt: "It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny."
Sweatshirt: "Black Lives Matter has already demonstrated that it has the power to shift the societal landscape by bringing awareness to age-old issues that have plagued us as a people."
Sweatshirt: "When I got home, I was trying to figure out how to be home. Like, be home in a sense that had nothing to do with music."
Sweatshirt: "People think being alone is a luxury, but it's crucial: Whatever you're not down with about yourself gets loud and in your face."
Sweatshirt: "Ego is my career. Rap music is all ego."
Sweatshirt: "I always try and tell dudes that are younger than me is that because of the Internet everyone can just be by themselves doing something, but the importance of a group is being able to have some sort of competition."
Sweatshirt: "Twitter is a real addiction, like the color of it, the process of it."
Sweatshirt: "People think artists like 50 Cent don't have charisma, but it's just a different kind of charisma, a bully charisma, which is kinda frowned upon."
Sweatshirt: "At first I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice I guess."