Mavi has tapped Earl Sweatshirt for his first single of 2025. “Landgrab” is the rappers’ second collaboration, following their 2019 Feet of Clay link-up “El Toro Combo Meal.” It’s additionally the primary correct Mavi single to characteristic a visitor. Hollywood Cole produced the brand new observe, and it’s accompanied by a music video directed by Alex Free. Watch it under.
“It is sensible that Thebe [Kgositsile aka Earl Sweatshirt] is the primary rap characteristic, as I’m forming into a brand new form of Mavi, doing a bunch of stuff for the primary time,” Mavi stated in a press release to Pitchfork. “Earl was the primary particular person to deliver me out in a collaborative manner, so it looks like, as I’m getting into this new paradigm, I need him to accompany me by that door as he did earlier than.”
He continued: “My first few initiatives served as one thing just like the preface to my story of me getting 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 yr. Revisit the profile “Mavi Is Making Introverted Rap for Black Liberation.”
