I don't know if any rap fans read the NY Times. I don't, but when I came home from school in Mass for the summer to stay at my parents house (Don't have an apartment on campus) my dad showed me an article about Earl. They apparently interviewed Earl through his mom and got the answers. I don't know how valid it is, though. Tyler said it wasn't. BUT, from the article, I gathered he was in a boarding school in Samoa until he turned 18.
hopefully he's free in february when he turns 18, but according to some guy who was on the island with him there's a program in which they stay until they're 21. it's supposed to be "voluntary," but you know how shit like that goes