Kgositsile first started rapping in the seventh grade. He attended the UCLA Lab School in Los Angeles and New Roads High School and Middle School in Santa Monica, California.

Harris and Kgositsile separated when Thebe was eight years old. Thebe Neruda Kgositsile was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Cheryl Harris, a law professor at University of California, Los Angeles, and Keorapetse Kgositsile, a South African poet and political activist. 2.5 2016–2019: Some Rap Songs and departure from Columbia Records.2.4 2014–2015: I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside and Solace.2.3 2012–2013: Return from Samoa and Doris.On November 1, 2019, Kgositsile released an EP titled Feet of Clay. He is currently signed to his independent label Tan Cressida, which was formerly distributed by Columbia Records.

His projects have all received widespread critical praise. His second album, I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside, followed in March 2015, and his third, Some Rap Songs, released in November 2018. Kgositsile rejoined Odd Future and started producing new music, releasing his debut studio album, Doris, in August 2013. He was unable to record music during his tenure there, but returned to Los Angeles in February 2012, just before his eighteenth birthday. Shortly after its release, his mother sent him to a boarding school in Samoa for at-risk teens for a year and a half. He gained recognition and critical praise for his debut mixtape, Earl, which he released in March 2010, at the young age of 16. Kgositsile was originally known by the moniker Sly Tendencies when he began rapping in 2008, but soon changed his name when Tyler, the Creator invited him to join his alternative hip hop collective Odd Future in late 2009. Thebe Neruda Kgositsile (born February 24, 1994), also known by his stage name Earl Sweatshirt, is an American rapper, songwriter, and record producer.

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