The tale of Thebe took a turn today, as new details emerged about his stay at a Samoan school for troubled American teens. Tyler Craven, a fellow-student who is now in the States sharing his side of the story, told Complex that Earl’s quotes in Kelefa Sanneh’s groundbreaking New Yorker article were meant to pander to his mother and the therapists that have him detained overseas. Sanneh, too, spoke with Craven, and here’s what he had to say:
Since the publication of that article, the saga of Earl Sweatshirt has only grown more complicated. Heathcliff Berru, a publicist who represents the other members of Odd Future, told the hip-hop Web site XXL that he wondered whether Earl’s quotes actually came from “his mother speaking on his behalf.” It was clear, though, that the answers did indeed come from Earl, and not just because they included a brief but credible list of rappers who had influenced him. (If you’re curious: “DOOM, The Cool Kids, and that one [Pharoahe Monch] album Desire… [a]nd Pre ‘let’s-hold-hands-and-cry-a-whole-lot’ Shady.”)
Last weekend, Complex published another Earl scoop, under a headline that said, “Earl Sweatshirt’s Coral Reef Academy Friend Says ‘New Yorker’ Story Is False.” In fact, the new information, like everything else about this story, wasn’t so simple. The writers talked to Tyler Craven, a young man who says he attended Coral Reef Academy with Earl; Craven had been posting on Facebook about his experience. In one post, Craven wrote, of Earl, “He hates his life right now and his mom for sending him there.” Reached by phone, Craven said that he didn’t doubt that the words in the New Yorker story were Earl’s, but he did doubt that they were sincere; he believes, as Complex put it, that Earl’s replies were “heavily influenced by therapists at the academy who need to see positive behavior if he wants to graduate.” Certainly that seems possible—there’s no way to know for sure until Earl returns, and even then some questions will doubtless remain. Not surprisingly, Craven’s analysis wasn’t warmly received by Tyler, the Creator, who is (understandably) sensitive about fans’ (equally understandable) curiosity about Earl’s state of mind. On Twitter, Tyler wrote, “Leave Thebe Alone, Shits Annoying. i Cant Do Anything About It Tho.”
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