Earl Sweatshirt Turns Drake’s ‘Don’t Worry’ Into a Tour Finale

Throughout his Home on the Range tour with MIKE, Earl Sweatshirt has been ending sets with an offbeat ritual: a full-voice, karaoke-style singalong to Drake’s “Don’t Worry,” a deep cut from the 2017 Icemanc project. Clips began circulating in late May, showing the typically reserved rapper locking into the song’s final stretch, mouthing the line, “I just wanna see that boy struggle with the phone bill / The light bill / That’s how I feel.”

The choice isn’t just a nod. “Don’t Worry” is a textbook Drake moment—a revenge fantasy delivered with enough melodic charm to turn pettiness into something strangely relatable. It’s a song that thrives on specifics: wishing financial humiliation on an unnamed adversary, layered over a gentle beat. Earl’s live rendition strips away the discourse and zeroes in on the craftsmanship. The clips, predictably, were weaponized in the ongoing stan wars, with some fans interpreting them as ironic trolling and others as a signal that Drake “won” the beef. Neither reading holds. Earl, an exacting writer himself, seems drawn to the song for what it is: a sharp