‘Rap saved my life’: A hazy conversation with MIKE and Earl Sweatshirt

“I mean the elephant in the room is that me and MIKE are pretty similar,” Earl Sweatshirt tells Dazed over video call. MIKE, who is sitting next to him, immediately bursts into a fit of laughter familiar to any fan of his work, throwing his head back and holding his stomach as Earl takes a slow toke of his joint, smiling. 

It’s good to get it out in the open. Since their fateful encounter back in 2016, Earl and MIKE have become figureheads of a particularly cerebralhellip;

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