Earl Sweatshirt Drops Sixth Album Live Laugh Love Arriving Aug 22

Earl Sweatshirt has released Live Laugh Love, his sixth studio album, arriving on August 22 after a week of social-media hints, a Los Angeles listening party, and a broader sense of anticipation surrounding his return. The project comes as Sweatshirt’s first full-length since 2023’s Voir Dire, a collaboration with The Alchemist, and arrives amid continued curiosity about how the rapper’s unreleased-work strategy and sparse public appearances will translate into a cohesive new body of work.

Live Laugh Love presents as a focused, introspective statement from Sweatshirt, built around ten tracks that showcase his signature dense lyricism and experimental approach to production. A visible single from the project, Tourmaline, has a music video directed by Devlin Claro and creative direction by Sage Elsesser, with visuals shot in New York City and Los Angeles. The track list is reinforced by a track—Gamma Need the Love—that nods to the late Dave Trugoy of De La Soul, signaling Sweatshirt’s penchant for weaving personal memory and cultural references into his rhymes. A zine circulated with the album at the listening event, featuring contributions from a wide circle of friends and...