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Earl Sweatshirt Details What His Album Rollout Was Supposed to Look Like

"I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside" wasn't supposed to be announced until after "Grief."

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Soon after the pre-order for I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside appeared on iTunes and alerted the world Earl Sweatshirt has a new album on the way, the rapper hit Twitter to voice his displeasure. Some thought he was simply poking fun at TDE CEO Anthony Tiffith's reaction to To Pimp a Butterfly's release, but a second round of tweets reveals Earl did indeed have different rollout plans.

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Soon after the pre-order for I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside appeared on iTunes and alerted the world Earl Sweatshirt has a new album on the way, the rapper hit Twitter to voice his displeasure. Some thought he was simply poking fun at TDE CEO Anthony Tiffith's reaction to To Pimp a Butterfly's release, but a second round of tweets reveals Earl did indeed have different rollout plans.

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if I had controlled the damn roll out y'all woulda got the video 1st so you could've just focused on that instead of the hype of an album


— EARL (@earlxsweat) March 17, 2015

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y'all would just be getting details about the album now, except you wouldn't know the track list or the features, cause all that...


— EARL (@earlxsweat) March 17, 2015

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...is unnecessary at this point.


— EARL (@earlxsweat) March 17, 2015

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In addition to the week of the surprise album, this is also becoming the week of the record label fuck up.

Look out for I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside to release March 23.

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