Earl Sweatshirt has made his first appearance on Fallon since 2013 and performed his new single, ‘2010’.
The Odd Future alumni returned in November with the new release, and it featured on his recent album Sick! His third album is the fourth album from Sweatshirt and his first body of work since 2019’s Feet of Clay EP.
Over that fallow time between releases, Earl kept himself busy notching up features. He appeared on Armand Hammer’s ‘Falling Out the Sky,’ ‘Nobles’ and ‘Loose Change’ by The Alchemist, Boldy James’ ‘Photographic Memories,’ and Wiki’s ‘All I Need’.
‘2010’ is one of the standout moments from his new release as Earl races out of the traps and spits, “I’m a need a bigger bag for the cohort, Tryna make a millionaire out of slum dogs, Bet that, head crack, blunt force, Cozy with the east Africans up north, Where seven make a three, turn a ten by law, Crescent moon wink, when I blinked it was gone.”
Meanwhile, he recently talked to Pitchfork about the album. Sweatshirt said, “I only set myself up for high-percentage shots; it takes me a long time because I’m not going for everything. But you know what bust my head? Everything is moving faster and faster, like XXXTentacion came out and died between I Don’t Like Shit and Some Rap Songs. Shit takes me so long that a whole career can happen in between. It takes time to pattern it out, writing and chiseling.
“But I did want to nudge myself out of my comfort zone. I had to locate where I was uncomfortable, and it was writing a song bar for bar, like a freestyle. The gray Sunday morning when I wrote “Sick!” was one of them moments. I was bored and didn’t know what the beat was going to do, and it was one clear motion. I was just like, “N****, come on, we got to do it,” until I did.”
See the footage from his Fallon appearance below.
