Mavi has tapped Earl Sweatshirt for his first single of 2025. “Landgrab” is the rappers’ second collaboration, following their 2019 Toes of Clay link-up “El Toro Combo Meal.” It’s additionally the primary correct Mavi single to function a visitor. Hollywood Cole produced the brand new monitor, and it’s accompanied by a music video directed by Jesse Fox Hallen. Watch it under.
“It is smart that Thebe [Kgositsile aka Earl Sweatshirt] is the primary rap function, as I’m forming into a brand new form of Mavi, doing a bunch of stuff for the primary time,” Mavi mentioned in a press release to Pitchfork. “Earl was the primary particular person to deliver me out in a collaborative approach, so it seems like, as I’m coming into this new paradigm, I need him to accompany me by way of that door as he did earlier than.”
He continued: “My first few tasks served as one thing just like the preface to my story of me coming into younger maturity and this trade, studying my powers by way of rap, artwork, and enterprise. Now, I’m manipulating the forces another way, having much more enjoyable, with much more collaboration coming quickly.”
Mavi shared the album Shadowbox final 12 months. Revisit the profile “Mavi Is Making Introverted Rap for Black Liberation.”
