Earl Sweatshirt Criticizes Drake: "The Line Between Paying Homage and Wave Riding is a Blurry One"

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Drake recently posted a video to Instagram where he dances to “SKRT” by Florida rapper Kodak Black. Yesterday, Earl Sweatshirt sent out a number of tweets criticizing Drake’s co-signing of young artists, writing that he “can be a bit of a vulture” and that “the line between paying homage and wave riding is a blurry one.” Check them out below.

drake found kodak black? smh welp — EARL (@earlxsweat) October 25, 2015

@AwfulSam naw bro. no hipster nothing. drake can be a bit of a vulture on young rap niggas and i don’t want lil kodak to be a victim of it — EARL (@earlxsweat) October 25, 2015

@TeesanKomo I feel u but I still feel like drake overall statement isn’t “check out this new shit I heard” it’s always self serving — EARL (@earlxsweat) October 25, 2015

@TeesanKomo I guess u rite. it’s not his job to develop them as artists. but the line between paying homage and wave riding is a blurry one — EARL (@earlxsweat) October 25, 2015

aye but just like the line between paying homage and wave riding is a blurry so is the one between giving criticism and hating — EARL (@earlxsweat) October 25, 2015

so imma keep that in mind and charge head first into this lovely sunday morning — EARL (@earlxsweat) October 25, 2015

rap music is bored as a collective if every time I have an opinion about something an article gets written. — EARL (@earlxsweat) October 26, 2015

Read our interview with Earl Sweatshirt. Watch him on an episode of Pitchfork.tv’s “Over/Under”: