Odd Future

Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All, normally shortened to Odd Future and abbreviated to OFWGKTA (stylized OFWGK†Δ), is an American hip hop collective from Ladera Heights, California. The collective was led by rapper and producer Tyler, The Creator, and included rappers Hodgy Beats, Domo Genesis, and Mike G, singer, songwriter and rapper Frank Ocean, producers Left Brain, Syd tha Kyd, Matt Martians, Pyramid Vritra and other non-musical members, notably Jasper Dolphin, Taco Bennett, L-Boy and Lucas Vercetti. There are multiple smaller groups inside the collective. The three active groups are The Internet, The Jet Age of Tomorrow, and the group HOG SLAUGHTA BOYZ (Earl Sweatshirt and Na'kel Smith).

History

2007–09: Early career

Odd Future formed around 2006-2007 in Los Angeles. The original members were founder Tyler, the Creator (Tyler Okonma), Left Brain (Vyron Turner), Hodgy Beats (Gerard Damien Long), Matt Martians (Matthew Martin), Jasper Dolphin (Davon Wilson) and Casey Veggies (Casey Jones), the latter of which appeared only on the group's debut mixtape before branching out to other projects. However Casey Veggies remains a close contributor. At some point before the release of Bastard, Chicago-based rapper brandUn DeShay collaborated with the group, and appeared on the track "Session," but Tyler and DeShay had a falling out, and his vocals on "Session" were replaced by Mike G. Much of their early music was recorded in a room of Syd the Kyd and Taco's South Central Los Angeles home, known as the Trap.

Earl Sweatshirt

Thebe Neruda Kgositsile (born February 24, 1994), better known by his stage name Earl Sweatshirt, is an American rapper, record producer, actor, songwriter, musician, and a former member of the Los Angeles-based hip hop collective Odd Future. He is signed to Columbia Records, as well as his own label, Tan Cressida. Earl gained recognition and critical praise for his debut mixtape, Earl. Following its release, his mother sent him to a boarding school in Samoa until his 18th birthday. On August 20, 2013, he released his debut studio album, Doris. On March 23, 2015, the digital version of Earl's second album, I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside: An Album by Earl Sweatshirt was released; the physical version of the album was released on April 14, 2015 to acclaim. On April 28, a ten-minute song/EP named "Solace" was released on YouTube.

Early life

Thebe Neruda Kgositsile was born in Chicago and moved to Los Angeles a few years later. His parents are Cheryl Harris, a law professor at University of California, Los Angeles, and Keorapetse Kgositsile, a South African poet and political activist who left the family when Thebe was six years old. Thebe attended the UCLA Lab School and then went on to graduate from New Roads High School in Santa Monica.

Future Records

Future Records is an independent record label, based in Reykjavík, Iceland. It was started in 2006 by Hreinn Elíasson, Sigurmon Hartmann Sigurðsson and Ólafur Halldór Ólafsson - all artists themselves.

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Odd Future Records

Odd Future Records is an American independent record label founded by rapper and producer Tyler, The Creator of Odd Future in 2011.

History

Odd Future Records was founded by Tyler the Creator in 2011 as a means to release material from the Odd Future collective. Despite this, members Earl Sweatshirt and Frank Ocean did not sign. Hal Williams also did not sign, however his collaborative project with Matt Martians, The Jet Age of Tomorrow, did. Hardcore punk band Trash Talk signed in 2012. Trash Talk were the first act to sign to Odd Future who were not involved in the initial collective. In 2015, Syd tha Kyd and Matt Martians' collaborative project, The Internet, expanded to include several members also not part of the original collective.

Current artists