Earl Sweatshirt’s Compelling Contradictions Come To Life At 9:30 Club

By Chris Kelly, E-mail the writer Midway through his concert Monday night, Los Angeles rapper Earl Sweatshirt asked the crowd, Are you guys proud of yourselves? Like most of his interactions with the audience, the sentiment was somewhere between sincere and sarcastic, but the kids standing in the sold-out 9:30 Club didnt care: Getting teased by Earl Sweatshirt makes you part of his crew. Still a week shy of 20, the Odd Future rapper already has the devoted following and outsize legend that most artists twice his age can only dream of. Two years free of a Samoan therapeutic retreat (his unknown whereabouts inspired endless sleuthing and theorizing on the Internet) and six months after the release of his debut album Doris, Earl is quickly and definitively delivering on the promise of his early work. Looking for things to do? Select one or more criteria to search Kid-friendly Get ideas In the same way that he dazzled with Doris, Earl performed with a presence and skill that belies his age, never getting lost in the tangle of syllables in his densely written songs. Joined by frequent collaborator Vince Staples and DJ/court jester Taco Bennett, Earl treated the gig more like an episode of Odd Futures Adult Swim TV sketch show Loiter Squad than a pure concert. Between songs, the three would lounge at the DJ table, catch their breath and banter among themselves and with the crowd, busting chops as adolescent guys tend to do. The contradictions that make him such a compelling artist on Doris, Earl is supremely confident one moment and self-loathing the next affect the live show, too. He told the crowd he wouldnt play one of his most reprehensible songs, the rape-and-murder fantasy epaR, yet he had no problem playing Earl, a song awash in the kind of violent misogyny and homophobia that Odd Future is known for. No matter how vulgar and violent the lyrics, Earls self-awareness makes them easier to accept: The impish goofball on stage cannot possibly be as depraved as his songs suggest. That quality was on display Monday night, whether he was deconstructing the absurdity of some of his most vile lyrics displaying mock horror at their literal meanings or asking the 9:30 Club technicians for a dark and ominous light before performing the confessional Chum. The crowd, made up mostly of his peers (plus a handful of dutiful parents), was entranced throughout, rapping along and chanting at all the right places. The front half of the room lurched like an amoeba with the testosterone-fueled mosh pits and crowd surfing more common at punk shows. Earl certainly feeds off the crowds energy.
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funny Bible Quotes

Can you find funny Bible quotes in the Bible? Even though it is not a book for jokes or humor, you can still find some funny phrases and stories inside the Bible. They are some of the most entertaining Christian funny quotes you can find.

So why it is so? Does God want to tell us it is good and encouraged to have fun and enjoy ourselves? Does you want to tell us he is not that serious and strict that some of us may think? You can think anyway you like, but the fact is we can find many funny quotes in the Bible.

Here are some of the funniest parts you can find...

1. Funny Bible Quote:

Proverbs 21:19 (New Living Translation)
"It is better to live alone in the desert than with a crabby, complaining wife."

2. Funny Christian Quote:

Proverbs 31:6 (New International Version)
"As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly."

3. Funny Bible Quote:

One time, Jesus was asked to leave town to for kill all the pigs... Matthew 8:28-34 (New International Version)

"When he arrived at the other side in the region of the Gadarenes, two demon-possessed men coming from the tombs met him. They were so violent that no one could pass that way. "What do you want with us, Son of God?" they shouted. "Have you come here to torture us before the appointed time?"

Some distance from them a large herd of pigs was feeding. The demons begged Jesus, "If you drive us out, send us into the herd of pigs." He said to them, "Go!" So they came out and went into the pigs, and the whole herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and died in the water. "

4. Funny Bible Quote:

Proverbs 29:20 (New Living Translation)
"There is more hope for a fool than for someone who speaks without thinking."

Did you enjoy the funny quotes above taken from the Bible? Then you can find even more amusing quotes and funny stories here.