Earl Sweatshirt and JPEGMAFIA Are Beefing Hard Right Now: ‘His Music is Gnarled, Rough, and Ugly’

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Earl Sweatshirt and JPEGMAFIA Are Beefing Hard Right Now: ‘His Music is Gnarled, Rough, and Ugly’

Earl Sweatshirt and JPEGMAFIA bicker back and forth online after the latter sneakily dissed him during a recent interview.

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Beef is alive and well within hip-hop in 2026. Now, two of the underground’s most prominent rappers are bickering back and forth, calling each other wack.

It all started when JPEGMAFIA was interviewed by Pigeons & Planes, where he declared himself the king of experimental rap. In the process, he took a not-so-subtle shot at Earl Sweatshirt. “I’m already the best in this space of experimental rap. There’s no one who competes with me. People cannot do what I do. So me naming it ‘Experimental Rap’ is just me laying claim to something I already had,” JPEGMAFIA said.

“Other people in this genre, they want to pretend and try to be cool and be like, ‘I don’t want to be experimental rap. I want to be something else, I want to f***ing rap like Lucki. I want to make songs that the young people make,’” JPEGMAFIA said, shading Earl Sweatshirt and his new music. “I’m not having a midlife crisis, musically, so I don’t really need to do........

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