{"id":365235,"date":"2026-03-25T23:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T23:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/365235\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T23:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T23:58:13","slug":"earl-sweatshirt-mike-surf-gang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/365235\/","title":{"rendered":"Earl Sweatshirt, MIKE, &#038; SURF GANG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next month, underground rap giants Earl Sweatshirt and MIKE will join forces to release the new double album POMPEII \/ UTILITY. It&#8217;s not a collaborative record, exactly. It&#8217;s two albums packaged together \u2014 one from MIKE and one from Earl, with the adventurous SURF GANG collective producing the entire thing. We already posted the <a href=\"https:\/\/stereogum.com\/2491764\/earl-sweatshirt-mike-surf-gang-announce-new-album-pompeii-utility-hear-earth-minty\/music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">first two singles<\/a>, MIKE&#8217;s &#8220;Earth&#8221; and Earl&#8217;s &#8220;Minty,&#8221; and the two rappers only collaborate a few times on the album&#8217;s 33-song totality. Today, they&#8217;ve shared one of those collabs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Leadbelly&#8221; comes from UTILITY, the Earl Sweatshirt half of the new album, and it has a joyously sleepy energy, as if you can smell the late-night session where they cooked it up. Earl and MIKE switch back-and-forth mid-verse, talking shit and looking back at their pasts. SURF GANG members Harrison and Elipropper co-produced the fizzy, languid beat with regular MIKE collaborator Tony Seltzer, and Richard Philip Smith and Ian Lopez shot the murky video. Check it out below.<\/p>\n<p>POMPEII \/ UTILITY is out 4\/3 on 10k\/Tan Cressida\/SURF GANG\/the Harp. Starting in June, Earl Sweatshirt and MIKE will tour North America and Europe together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Next month, underground rap giants Earl Sweatshirt and MIKE will join forces to release the new double album&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-365235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}