Earl Sweatshirt Drops New Music Video & Prepares for Album Release Next Week!

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March 18, 2015

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Earl Sweatshirt channels his inner Charlie Brown on “Grief,” a new track from the rapper’s upcoming second album, I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside, which he announced just a week before its scheduled March 23rd arrival date, Pitchfork reports.

[WATCH] The Official Video For “Grief” Below:

“Grief” finds the Odd Future rapper navigating familiar themes of isolation and anxiety, and comes with a stark clip shot in X-ray-like vision. The video opens with Earl smoking alone on his couch spitting, “Good grief — I’ve been reaping what sewed / Nigga I ain’t been outside in a minute, I’ve been living what I wrote.” As he moves aimlessly through various scenes, Earl interweaves distrust and paranoia with braggadocio over lurching production; and while the MC retains his knack for building breathless piles of syllables and rhymes, he’s honed his marble-mouthed flow into something far sharper.

Following yesterday’s announcement of I Don’t Like Shit, Earl took to Twitter to deliver what seemed to be an all-caps invective against his parent label, Sony Music, for messing up the album’s release. However, it looks like he was only poking fun at Top Dawg Entertainment CEO, Anthony Tiffith, who blasted Interscope after Kendrick Lamar’s new album, To Pimp a Butterfly, arrived a week ahead of schedule.

I Don’t Like Shit officially drops on Monday, March 23, but is currently available for pre-order on iTunes. The album features various guest appearances including Def Jam Records’ emerging rapper Vince Staples, who will be joining the Los Angeles artist for select dates as he headlines his upcoming nationwide Not Redy 2 Leave Tour, which will be hitting Concord Music Hall in Chicago on Sunday, March 29. Tickets are on sale HERE.

 

Read the full story via Rolling Stone HERE.

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