New Earl Sweatshirt music features in first episode of Atlanta season four

Last Thursday (15 September) the final season of Donald Glover's Atlanta started, and the first episode saw Paper Boi (Brian Tyree Henry) reflect on the death of a fictional rapper called Blue Blood, who is voiced by Earl Sweatshirt.

The episode features some unreleased Earl Sweatshirt music, and the fictional rapper appears to be a tribute to the late MF DOOM, as Blue Blood's death is announced three months on from the actual date. Paper Boi also goes on a scavenger hunt in Atlanta's laundromats, cinemas, arcades and comic book stores after finding a clue in Blue Blood's lyrics which lead him to the fictional rapper's funeral.

„Atlanta“ paid tribute to MF DOOM during their Season 4 premier, which included previously unheard music from Earl Sweatshirt pic.twitter.com/qZrH4gg9Nt

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how y’all feeling about this unreleased Earl Sweatshirt that played in the Season 4 premiere of Atlanta? pic.twitter.com/Om9E2hHL7A

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Earl Sweatshirt released his latest project SICK! in January.

In November 2020, Donald Glover wrote on Twitter that the third and fourth seasons of Atlanta are "going to be some of the best television ever made. Sopranos only ones who can touch us."