Mac Miller delivers two late night leaks of tracks from the Watching Movies With The Sound Off recording sessions. “Movies we didn’t watch,” he writes.

Earl drops off the Left Brain remix of “Chum”, along with a behind the scenes look at his LA apartment in the clip down below.

Freddie Gibbs & Madlib’s Pinata will be released March 18, 2014. Listen to “Robes” featuring Earl Sweatshirt & Domo Genesis, debuted last night by Benji B on BBC Radio 1.

My 1st Chemistry Set hits next Tuesday.

You’ll notice when Kendrick Lamar dropped his now infamous verse on “Control,” Tyler the Creator was one of the names he called out as his competition. Earl Sweatshirt, Tyler’s supposedly more lyrically potent running mate, was left off the list.

Multiple listens to his debut, Doris, confirms that Kendrick has nothing to worry about from Earl.

“Burgundy” featuring Vince Staples seems to sum up what may have been the problem with Doris’ creation. Earl’s troubled rhymes seem to indicate he just wasn’t ready for this: “Grandma’s passing/But I’m too busy tryna get this f**ckin’ album cracking to see her/So I apologize in advance if anything should happen/And my priorities f***ed up, I know it, I’m afraid I’m going to blow it/And when them expectations raising because daddy was a poet, right?”

Much of Earl’s output on Doris sounds like that of a kid overwhelmed by the moment.

The 19-year-old member of the cult favorite group Odd Future has garnered almost mythical buzz with his mixtape, Earl, and his subsequent disappearance having been sent to a boarding school in Samoa by his mother. He re-emerged notably with a memorable verse on “Super Rich Kids” off Frank Ocean’s (another Odd Future member) seminal channel ORANGE album.

There’s nothing on Doris, though, to match the high of that star guest appearance. At times he sounds completely lost – with the laughable braggadocio on “Pre” (“Pop artillery…Just watch, I’ma kill ‘em all in a minute”) or the utterly morose “Guild,” which sounds like sludge and features tired lyrics from Mac Miller (“Marilyn Manson channeling, panicking, spar with Anakin”) and Earl (“We could play doctor, ma/open wide for the thermometer”).

On “Sunday,” one of the album’s better cuts, he’s out-rhymed by Ocean, who seemingly has some things to say to Chris Brown:

“They thought me soft in high school, thank God I’m jagged/Forgot you don’t like it rough, I mean he called me a fa**ot/I was just calling his bluff I mean how anal am I gon’ be/When I’m aiming my gun/And why’s his mug all bloody, that was a three on one?”

Earl does have a unique and complex flow, able to topple one rhyme on top of another with no space in between. But it’s a fine line between complicated, like the wordplay on “Chum” (“Sixteen, I’m hollow, intolerant, skip shots, I storm that whole bottle, I’ll show you a role model, I’m drunk, pissy, pissing on somebody front lawn/Trying to figure out how and when the f**k I missed moderate”) and gibberish like on “Hive” (“…these critics and interns admitting the s*it spit/It just burn like six furnaces writ it/I affixed learning them digits and simultaneously/Dispelling one-trick pony myths, isn’t he?”).

Earl is the type of rapper you have to listen to hard, paying attention to every word. Unfortunately, there’s nothing about the music here that deserves that kind of respect.

From a production standpoint, Doris feels like it’s in slow motion. It never gets going. Instead it plods at the same tempo with the same depressing style of beats that glumly slur along.

He gets a little help from The Neptunes on “Burgundy,” but even that is downbeat for them. RZA lends his voice and production experience to “Molasses” and it’s one of the more energized efforts musically, but RZA’s chorus isn’t even worth repeating.

Earl also doesn’t differentiate himself from his mentor Tyler, whose album Wolf that came out earlier this year is a much better, more fully realized version of what Doris aspires to be, and it wasn’t even that good.

Doris is cluttered with guest spots, many of which outshine Earl, including the not exactly household names Domo Genesis and Vince Staples.

Whatever the opposite of a crowning achievement is, that’s what this is for the Odd Future collective. Sort of the epitome of this scattered, overhyped movement. Maybe Earl still has a future. Perhaps his brilliance is yet to be untapped. Right now he’s just an amateur who’s nowhere near close to being on Kendrick’s list.

Odd Future’s Earl Sweatshirt stops by Sway In The Morning, to speak on his new album, Doris, meeting Eminem, being in a relationship, and his creative process.

AKA Flying Lotus, Earl Sweatshirt, MF DOOM & Stephen “Thundercat” Bruner. “Between Villains” is the latest from Adult Swim’s Summer Singles series. It will be available for download next monday on adultswim.com.

Odd Future’s youngest-in-charge, Earl Sweatshirt, will release his debut album on August 20th. Today, he serves up a full album stream for the record, via their Soundcloud account.

Odd Future’s Earl Sweatshirt teams with RZA for this track from his August 20th release, Doris.

From Earl’s upcoming album, Doris, dropping August 20th.

Directed By Wolf Haley. Filmed By Luis Ponch. Produced By Tara Razavi. DORIS is coming soon.

The 2013 Bonnaroo Festival line-up has been announced, which will happen June 13-16 in Manchester, TN. Among the hip-hop acts scheduled to perform are the reunited WU-TANG CLAN, as well as Nas, Kendrick Lamar, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, A$AP Rocky, Big K.R.I.T., Action Bronson, Earl Sweatshirt, Killer Mike, plus other acts you might be interested in, such as R. Kelly, Araab Muzik, A-Trak, are among the 125 scheduled acts slated to perform at the festival. Check out the entire line-up below, and log on to Bonnaroo.Com to purchase tickets, starting this Saturday.

Obama and Romney go on a sunday stroll.

New music from Odd Future’s youngest in charge.

In a recent interview with Sway In The Morning, RZA revealed that he has completed a song with Odd Future’s Earl Sweatshirt.

“I actually just did a song with Earl Sweatshit,” RZA revealed, when asked about what current artists he was into at the moment. “For them, coming from the West Coast, the lyricism is deep. People in the past always slept, as if West Coast didn’t have lyricism. The West Coast always had lyricism. It just [that] everybody tried to choose a side for things. But Odd Future is coming through showing style, craziness, lyricism, and a movement as well.”

RZA also speaks on his new film, The Man With The Iron Fists, and speaks briefly with Scarface, who calls in the show.