The rapper was mistakenly identified as Earl Sweatshirt in the original version of this article.

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Though several 1990s hip-hop acts were featured, including the reunited Wu-Tang Clan, it promoted the next generation with 2 Chainz, Danny Brown, Earl Sweatshirt and others.

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Ocean became something of a mentor to the loopy rapper, whose coalition, Odd Future, which includes the rapper Earl Sweatshirt, was a rising assemblage of profane, libidinal, seemingly homophobic loons.

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