![]() ![]() Or because another member, Syd “The Kyd” Bennett, is openly gay, which is still a rarity amongst rappers. Earl Sweatshirt, was reportedly banished to a Samoan boarding school last year after he self-released his dark, misanthropic album Earl-a saga so bizarrely, mysteriously gripping that it was chronicled in both Complex and The New Yorker. Or because the group’s youngest member, 17-year-old Thebe Kgositsile, a.k.a. ![]() ![]() But trending buzz notwithstanding, Odd Future has emerged as a singular force in contemporary hip-hop, and not only because they make fascinatingly antisocial, deeply (almost painfully) human music that’s totally out of step with the pop mainstream. Odd Future, an 11-strong collective of anarchic, mix tape–dropping teenage and early-twentysomething skater-MCs from Los Angeles-also known as OFWGKTA, an acronym for Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All-have set the hip-hop micro-blogosphere afire this year with the indelicacy of a blast of kerosene from a flamethrower. ![]()
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