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[ATTENDED: December 3, 2025] Cletus Strap

After seeing Tyler the Creator earlier this year, I thought my daughter might also enjoy seeing Earl Sweatshirt, his former partner in Odd Future.

What was fascinating was that Tyler’s show was MASSIVE.  He sold out Wells Fargo Center.  He had two stages, lots of lights, and a whole routine.  Earl’s show was at Union Transfer and didn’t even have a backdrop.  There was no light show, just the venue’s lights.  And all of that is totally fine, it was just such a contrast.

It was also interesting that there were FIVE artists on the bill and I hadn’t heard of any but Earl.

There was a table in the middle of  the stage.  There was a DJ (possibly unnamed).  He had a laptop or two.

Up first was Cletus Strap.

Cletus Strap is kind of a mumble rapper.  And the problem with his whole set was that the music was louder than his microphone so I genuinely didn’t hear anything he said.  And I didn’t think is music was all that compelling.

What was most fascinating was that here were about five other people on stage and all of them were taking pictures.  They were using their phones and walking around him like they were filming his set for a YouTube video.  It was highly entertaining.

At one point he got a crowd chant going of We in Philly; Live Laugh Love.

The DJ was a hype guy as well, although he was hit lots of sound effects during the songs which I found really distracting.

Cletus’ set was about 25 minutes and the best part of the show was that there was no pause between acts.  Cletus finished his set and walked over to the side of the stage to be with the others.  And out from the shadows walked Niontay.

FILOTV recorded the whole set from the stage