Earl Sweatshirt performs new music in ‘Atlanta’ season 4 premiere

The season 4 opener of Donald Glover‘s Atlanta, which premiered on FX this week (September 15), options new music from Earl Sweatshirt.

In the course of the season premiere, the characters Paper Boi (performed by Brian Tyree Henry) and Darius (Lakeith Stanfield) mourned the dying of a rapper known as Blue Blood, whose music was enjoying by means of the audio system through the scene.

After the episode aired, Pitchfork confirmed that the music from ‘Blue Blood’ was the truth is an unreleased observe from Earl Sweatshirt.

Atlanta will proceed to air weekly episodes on FX (and Disney+ within the UK), and you may see the season 4 trailer under.

Atlanta follows faculty dropout Earnest “Earn” Marks (Glover) and rapper Paper Boi (Brian Tyree Henry) as they navigate an otherworldly model of the Atlanta rap scene. The collection additionally stars Lakeith Stanfield and Zazie Beetz.

By an Afro-surrealist lens, the present examines themes of racism, whiteness, existentialism and fashionable African-American tradition.

A synopsis for the season reads: “Season 4 finds Earn, Paper Boi, Darius and Van again of their hometown. However the query is, has Atlanta modified or have they?”

Glover lately rejected the criticism that his comedy-drama collection Atlanta “isn’t for Black folks”.

“I really feel that is such a Black present,” mentioned Glover whereas talking at a Tv Critics Affiliation panel final month, by way of Entertainment Weekly. “To say it’s just for white folks, it’s like we’re chopping ourselves down which is type of whack to me.”

Glover argued that a whole lot of his work is “for the folks”, and responded to the criticism that his present shows examples of prejudice in direction of Black girls.