Earl Sweatshirt Brings The 3L Tour To History
On Monday, December 8th, Earl Sweatshirt and friends brought the 3L World Tour to HISTORY, marking a memorable night for longtime fans of the hip-hop veteran as we wrap up the 2025 concert season. The rapper’s nonchalance remained a theme tonight as this tour took a unique approach to the standard show format.
Thebe Neruda Kgositsile, known in the music scene as Earl Sweatshirt, showed class and humility by labelling this tour Earl Sweatshirt & Friends. Sweatshirt had no grand entrance, spending most of his night pre-performance onstage with his openers — hanging out, nodding along, watching their sets from a few feet away. He called the artists on tour with him “family,” and in Toronto, it showed. When Liv.e’s dreamlike neo-soul drifted across the room, Earl was right there, bringing a sense of overall friends-and-family vibe to concertgoers.
The setup was intentionally bare-bones: just his DJ, a few lights, and his crew surrounding him. It stripped away all distance between performer and audience — a reminder that Earl has always been a man of the people, allergic to spectacle, drawn instead to connection. And that connection translated to the crowd. Even though Toronto is known for being reserved, the room was fully tuned in — heads nodding, voices rising, pockets of the crowd rapping entire verses back at him. For an artist whose art speaks for itself, this show was a testament to the 15 years he’s spent evolving from Odd Future prodigy to the well-respected artist he is today.
Earl Sweatshirt’s Toronto show wasn’t designed to blow the roof off. It was designed to pull you in. And it did — with atmosphere, intimacy, and an artist fully in his element. For fans of his music, it was a reminder of why seeing him live is something different, something deeper, something worth leaning into.
All photographs were shot by Kianna Sumitani on behalf of The Hip-Hop Guru.
