By Kelefa Sanneh Members of Odd Future, from left: Mike G; Syd the Kyd; Left Brain; Tyler, the Creator; Domo Genesis; Hodgy Beats; Jasper Dolphin.
Some of the members of Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All (or just good old Odd Future to most people) have been snapping every moment they've found worth capturing for the past year or so.
(It turns out that the members of Odd Future aren't entirely uninterested in old-industry prestige).
COMMENT FROM ANDREW: Did you get any sense of how the various members of Odd Future are doing financially?
Today, the members of Odd Future seem less like antisocial hooligans and more like people who have made careers out of being surly teen-agers.
Its domestic policies were incoherent and unfunded, its foreign policy worryingly anti-American, its members an odd coalition of socialists and exiles from the LDP.
On a Friday night, at the end of another long and intermittently productive week in Los Angeles, the other members of Odd Future crammed into a rental van to drive to Pomona, where they had booked a concert.
For the members of Odd Future, hip-hop looks less like a road to financial salvation and more like a playground, full of rusty old attractions and rickety new ones; its dilapidated condition only offers more opportunities for mischief.
Heathcliff Berru, a publicist who represents the other members of Odd Future, told the hip-hop Web site XXL that he wondered whether Earl's quotes actually came from "his mother speaking on his behalf".
We were sitting in the dining room of the Clancy house in Miracle Mile, in Los Angeles, where two members of Odd Future had just shown up within minutes of each other.
If the members of Odd Future maintain this trajectory, they could join the list, earning an indelible — and, for what it's worth, specious — reputation as the latest saviors of hip-hop.
