Earl Sweatshirt and JPEGMAFIA Throw Shots at Each Other on Social Media

Earl Sweatshirt fans are buzzing after the rapper appeared to respond to a perceived diss from JPEGMAFIA. It comes after an interview with Pigeons & Planes during which JPEGMAFIA talked about why he named his upcoming album Experimental Rap. 

“Other people in this genre, they want to pretend and try to be cool and be like, ‘I don’t want to be experimental rap. I want to be something else. I want to f**king rap like Lucki. I want to make songs that the young people make,’” he said. “I don’t really need to do that. I can just be myself, and I let other people try to figure out who they are at 40 or whatever.”

Earl appeared to take exception to the clip, appearing on the comments and posting emojis. 

“Nobody copies cuh because his music is gnarled rough and ugly (derogatory),” Earl wrote. “Lmao leave me alone pls I make music with my friends that I have (derogatory).” 

JPEGMAFIA later responded in a comment that has since been deleted.

“1st off n***a your career is gnarled and rough, you the first n***a since Joe Budden to go back underground literally,” wrote JPEGMAFIA. “2nd stop saying ‘cuh’ your 32 and you went to boarding school. 3rd neither you nor your friends would ever say none of this to my face. But thank you for the promo little guy.” 

Earl continued to insult JPEG for his fashion choices while also sarcastically praising Experimental Rap.

“You know what bro my fault I misspoke,” wrote Earl. “Bro is the king of making crunchy ass music and wearing muay thai shorts, super excited for the album brother (positive) seems like its gonna be really experimental.”

Experimental Rap is set to drop on May 21. 

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