Who is Earl?

The hip-hop world is asking, “Where is Earl?” But the question of who is Earl, A.K.A. Thebe, is a lot more fruitful. Check his first blog right here, back when he was known as Sly. He writes intimately–about his creative process, posts pictures of slit wrists, mentions that his mother is gay, etc.:

I’m Sly. I’m fifteen. I like to write music…

Little Basic Info: I’ve been writing for a bit, and i’ve been spitting since like the sixth grade. I sucked ass until about seven months ago, when I hit an epiphany.. I’m not quite sure exactly what it was, but it was for the better. I rap. The majority of my beats come from Loofy, who happens to be my best friend. I made my first ever recorded song with him called wattstax at his house in cramped computer room with our friends mic in about 45 minutes. Gutter.

I’m a part of the Backpackerz.. who are a couple of adoloscents with goals and shit. We are the weird motherfuckers who you hate because their style is awkward and their music is different and they don’t have the same faggy cookie cutter that you use to get dressed in the morning with. We are planning to drop a mixtape by the time school lets out in June, to defecate on the summer with.

I’m not a happy person. I don’t like alot of people. But people say i’m funny, so go figure. My mom is lesbian. I don’t know why I included that. I plan to drop a mixtape sometime in the near future…Kitchen Cutlery V1..

I have alot of big dreams that I hope can take me places. I want to move out of my house as soon as possible and escape these damn walls. I want to make an imprint on the rap scene, which i will, because i have charisma out of my asshole. if you don’t think so, fuck you and take a lap.

Feast.

And later…

I feel like..
every new verse I write progresses.
A while ago, my friends’ older sister listened to the tracks that are on my music page, and was disappointed with me. Not with my skill or lack of talent or whatever.. But because of the content.. And i realized how much that disturbed me. There’s people out here like Brandun Deshay who’s flow and wordplay is dope without a whole bunch of unneccessary shit. So lately, I’ve been making a conscious effort to make the stuff that i write more creative, and sophisticated in a way. I think that when I get writers block.. My content gets more and more simplistic, but when i let go of whatever block i’ve clamped on my imagination, my music gets doper. When music is all blah blah shit fuck dick doint ass pussy blah blah, it makes you seem more retarded.. and I don’t want that. SO! As soon as this nigga Matt hooks some studio time up, expect a slightly altered version of the sly you’re listening to on myspace.

This all gives a bit of credibility to the alleged story behind his initial friendship with Tyler back in 2008. Supposedly, Earl was a huge fan of Tyler’s who messaged him on MySpace until granted the opportunity to appear on “AssMilk.” The same source writes that the duo as well as Taco were involved in an incident with the police around March 2010 which prompted Earl’s mom to send him off to boarding school. Neither this nor the following screenshot is confirmed to be authentic, but the writing sounds similar to that on Earl’s blog: