Rapper Earl Sweatshirt’s fourth album is in many ways similar to the previous one, the rich and bountiful (and equally short, around 24 minutes) Some Rap Songs published in 2018, with this major difference: its context. Sick! compiles the rapper’s pandemic reflections with good-natured and nonchalant prosody. One flow singular, at the service, again, of a spiritual pen which makes him write pearls like ” Booze is a fool’s fragrance “, just after ” My grandfather spoke thirteen languages / Somehow never had nothing to say ” on God Laughs, one of the most vaporous of this album with productions dripping with samples of soul and jazz — and an excerpt from an interview given by Fela Kuti, at the end of the title track. No rhyme is written in vain on this disc with well-packed ideas, but whose musical atmosphere (signed by a dozen collaborators, including Samiyam and The Alchemist) encourages meditation and reflection. The member of Odd Future continues his journey in the opposite direction of current rap trends.
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