Keorapetse Kgositsile Puns

If destroying all the maps known
would erase all the boundaries
from the face of this earth
I would say let us
make a bonfire
to reclaim and sing
the human person

Refugee is an ominous load
even for a child to carry
for some children
words like home
could not carry any possible meaning
but
displaced
border
refugee
must carry dimensions of brutality and terror
past the most hideous nightmare
anyone could experience or imagine

Empty their young eyes
deprived of a vision of any future
they should have been entitled to
since they did not choose to be born
where and when they were
Empty their young bellies
extended and rounded by malnutrition
and growling like the well-fed dogs of some
with pretensions to concerns about human rights
violations

Can you see them now
stumble from nowhere
to no
where
between
nothing
and
nothing

Consider
the premature daily death of their young dreams
what staggering memories frighten and abort
the hope that should have been
an indelible inscription in their young eyes

Perhaps
I should just borrow
the rememberer’s voice again
while I can and say:
to have a home is not a favour

deep in your cheeks

your specific laughter owns

all things south of the ghosts

we once were. straight ahead

.

the memory beckons from the future

you and I a tribe of colours

this song that dance

godlike rhythms to birth

footsteps of memory

the very soul aspires to. Songs

.

of origins songs of constant beginnings

what is this thing called

love

   I’m in love with their lyrical prowess, or the way they describe life in their beautiful styles. I’m sorry if can’t describe it better that’s why I want to learn more arts similar to these to improve my articulation, enjoy the good reads and even write a bit on my own.
   In all honesty I know very little of earl’s father work so I’m gonna look more into those but maybe there are other poets out there similar that you guys can refer me to. I’m a huge fan of earl and my two favorite songs of his are quest/power, hat trick, and I love his feature on new faces with Mac Miller and Dash.
   I’ve read other poems, but most of them don’t intrigue me and hook me as much as their stuff
   Any help or advice is really appreciated. THANKS!

Keorapetse William Kgositsile, also known as "Bra Willie", was confirmed to have passed this morning. He was a poet and political activist, and also also the father to Thebe Kgositsile aka "Earl Sweatshirt".

Very saddened that this happened, and only a few days past New Years. My condolences to the entire Kgositsile family. IF YOU GUYS ARE FAMILIAR WITH ANY OF KEORAPETSE'S WORK FEEL FREE TO SHARE ANYTHING YOU LIKE WITH OTHERS

this morning i was reading a little more about the life of Earl's dad, Keorapetse Kgositsile, and it made me think back to Playing Possum

born in 1938 in apartheid south africa, he was forced into exile in 1961, and wasn't able to return to his home country until 1990. of this return to south africa after 29 years, he's discussing the group of writers and activists he'd been working with for a while who helped him come back:

>Here are my colleagues and hosts. Can you deal with that? Hosts! In my own country... But there are no memories here. The streets of Johannesburg cannot claim me. I cannot claim them either.

part of his poem Anguish Longer Than Sorrow, which Earl interpolates in Playing Possum, says:

>For some children, words like "home" could not have any possible meaning... To have a home is not a favor

now, ostensibly this poem is about child refugees of war torn countries, but i think there's also a connection to his personal experience of his home changing so much during his exile that he felt like a foreigner when he returned.

i think there's an interesting parallel here to Earl's relationship with the OF circle in LA. when he returned home from his exile, he felt like a refugee returning home to a place that had changed radically since he was last there, a place that had essentially moved on without him.

this sentiment is starkly juxtaposed against a speech from Earl's mother, Cheryl, which comprises the other half of Playing Possum. it serves as a mea culpa for her erratic and inconsistent behavior, and as an expression of gratitude for the support network that has allowed her to thrive. the twist here is that Earl is using his mother's own words to talk about his gratitude towards her, something he's gone on to say more explicitly later on (that she was there for him when he felt hung out to dry)

thanks for reading, i'd love to hear what yall think

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#TRACKLIST

1. Shattered Dreams [self prod.]

2. Red Water [self prod.]

3. Cold Summers [self prod.]

4. Nowhere2go [prod. Booliemane & Adé Hakim]

5. December 24 [prod. Denmark Vessey]

6. Ontheway! (feat. Standing on the Corner) [self prod.]

7. The Mint (feat. Navy Blue) [prod. Black Noi$e]

8. The Bends [prod. Sage Elsesser]

9. Loosie [self prod.]

10. Azucar [prod. Sage Elsesser]

11. Eclipse [self prod.]

12. Veins [self prod.]

13. Playing Possum (feat. Cheryl Harris & Keorapetse Kgositsile) [self prod.]

14. Peanut [self prod.]

15. Riot! [prod. self & Shamel of SOTC]

Hello everyone and welcome to another day of Album of the Year 2018, the daily write-up series where users from /r/hiphopheads talk their favorite albums of the year. Up today, I'm writing about the long-anticipated third studio album from Thebe Kgositsile, the artist professionally known as Earl Sweatshirt, Some Rap Songs.

Artist: Earl Sweatshirt

Album: Some Rap Songs

Listen:

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Spotify

Apple Music

Background by /u/ReconEG

The Earl Sweatshirt story is well-known and well covered, but in case you don’t know, here’s the quick recap: Born Thebe Neruda Kgositsile to Cheryl Harris, a law professor at University of California, Los Angeles, and Keorapetse Kgositsile, a South African poet and political activist. Earl’s father left his mother and him when he was 8 years old and returned to his home country. After getting his start in Tyler the Creator’s Odd Future collective with the release of mixtapes like Earl and features on Tyler’s Bastard and Odd Future’s Radical, Earl’s mother sent him to Samoa to attend Coral Reef Academy, a therapeutic retreat school for at-risk boys.

While Tyler and his fellow Odd Future members insisted that Earl’s music was what got him sent to Samoa, he himself clarified that his music played a minimum role in his excursion, as getting into various kinds of trouble with his friends was what sent him away. While he was gone though, Odd Future blew up. When he returned to the United States in early 2012, it was safe to say that he received a massive culture shock. It was this culture shock that defined him for a very long time, as his debut album Doris and follow-up I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside heavily dealt with his sudden rise to fame at an extremely young age and his ways of coping.

Now, while those two albums are still important to what led to Some Rap Songs, his long-awaited third LP and the album we’re talking today, it was a 10-minute EP/song he released shortly after IDLS that I feel is the most important stepping stone to SRS. Released to little fanfare, “solace” was a project Earl intended for his

Please tell me if it’s good and what you will change. Please be mean. Here’s my ranking of every Earl Sweatshirt song so far...:

1. December 24
2. Huey
3. Chum
4. Solace
5. Grief
6. Azucar
7. AM // Radio (feat. Wiki)
8. Hive (feat. Vince Staples & Casey Veggies)
9. Shattered Dreams
10. Wool (feat. Vince Staples)
11. Molasses (feat. RZA)
12. Ontheway! (Feat. Standing on the corner)
13. Nowhere2go
14. The Mint (feat. Navy Blue)
15. Luper
16. Earl
17. MTOMB (feat. LIV.e)
18. Whoa (feat. Tyler, the Creator)
19. Riot!
20. Off Top
21. 20 Wave Caps (feat. Domo Genesis)
22. Pigions (feat. Tyler, the Creator)
23. Sunday (feat. Frank Ocean)
24. Faucet
25. Stapleton
26. Epar (feat. Vince Staples)
27. El Toro combo meal (feat. MAVI)
28. Bergundy (feat. Vince Staples)
29. Od
30. Mantra
31. Tisk tisk / cookies
32. The Bends
33. Whole world (feat. MAXO)
34. DNA (feat. Na’kel)
35. Knight (feat. Domo Genesis)
36. Hoarse
37. Red Water
38. Uncle Al
39. Centurion (feat. Vince Staples)
40. 74
41. Kill
42. Veins
43. Inside
44. Moonlight (feat. Hodgy)
45. East
46. Sasquatch (feat. Tyler, the Creator)
47. Couch (feat. Tyler, the Creator)
48. Guild (feat. Mac Miller)
49. Eclipse
50. Ghost (feat. Navy Blue)
51. Grown ups (feat. Dash)
52. Loosie
53. Peanut
54. Thisn***augly
55. Pre (feat. Sk La’ Flare)
56. Wakeupfaggot
57. 4n (feat. Mach-Hommy)
58. Playing Possum (feat. Cheryl Harris & Keorapetse Kgositsile)
59. 523

Do your worst!

It really does, I swear!

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

They’re on standbi

Pilot on me!!

Buenosdillas

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

I won't be doing that today!

aight, in the spirit of Frank’s 2017 timeline, this is my Earl Timeline. It’s everything that Earl’s been up to since dropping I Don’t Like Shit I Don’t Outside. I’ve missed out unimportant Twitter spats and unofficial leaks etc. I’m sure the fans will help fill me in or check me if I’m wrong. But please don’t repost this shit anywhere, I’ve put one on r/hiphopheads too. I don’t lurk too much but I’ll update with big news every now and then. Peace. And have a good Sunday.

2015

March 23, 2015

Earl releases I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside.

March 24, 2015

Earl is interviewed for NPR's Microphone Check. He announced Solace, a "little project... for my mom."

March 25, 2015

Alchemist releases “Warlord Leather”, featuring Earl and Action Bronson.

April 2, 2015

Earl is interviewed for Pitchfork.

April 10, 2015

Earl is interviewed for Billboard.

April 28, 2015

Earl releases Solace. He described it as “music from when I hit the bottom and found something.”

May 2, 2015

Skepta talks about making music with Earl in LA.

May 13, 2015

Earl performs on Jimmy Kimmel with BadBadNotGood and Gary Wilson. Earl did “AM/Radio” and “Grief”, BadBadNotGood did their track “Kaleidoscope”.

May 31, 2015

Mike releases Crimson EP. Earl produced the title track with Matt Martians.

June 3, 2015

Lucki teases two collaborations with Earl.

June 30, 2015

• Vince Staples releases Summertime 06. Earl appears on “Ramona Park Legend, Part 2”.

• Earl is interviewed for Red Bull.

July 16, 2015

Earl is [interviewed](https://www.theguardian.com/musi

You take away their little brooms

This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

There hasn't been a post all year!

It’s pronounced “Noel.”

Why

After all his first name is No-vac

What, then, is Chinese rap?

Edit:

Notable mentions from the comments:

• Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits

• French/Finnish art

• Country/Canadian rap

• Chinese/Country/Canadian rock

• Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap

1. Shattered Dreams

2. Red Water

3. Cold Summers

4. Nowhere2go

5. December 24

6. Ontheway! Ft. Standing On The Corner

7. The Mint Ft Navy Blue

8. The Bends

9. Loosie

10. Azucar

11. Eclipse

12. Veins

13. Playing Possum Ft. Cheryl Harris and Keorapetse Kgositsile

14. Peanut

15. Riot!

Thoughts? Favorite songs?

Personally, Mint is the standout for me. I really like the cohesiveness of this album.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

When I got home, they were still there.