Earl Sweatshirt slams Taylor Swift's new video for promoting black stereotypes

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Oh Taylor.

Taylor Swift just dropped the visual to her first single on her new album, 1989, and “Shake It Off”  is already being criticized for perpetuating stereotypes.

Like Lilly Allen, Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus and other white singers, Swift’s “Shake It Off” echoes the same imagery of twerking, breakdancing, and other aspects of black music culture in her latest video.

Earl Sweatshirt, who’s arguably the best lyricist in the rap collective Odd Future, took to Twitter yesterday to voice his thoughts on ‘Shake It Off’.

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He’s not a fan.

haven’t watched the taylor swift video and I don’t need to watch it to tell you that it’s inherently offensive and ultimately harmful

— EARL (@earlxsweat) August 19, 2014

perpetuating black stereotypes to the same demographic of white girls who hide their prejudice by proclaiming their love of the culture

— EARL (@earlxsweat) August 19, 2014

Does Earl have a point? Watch Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off” and sound off in the comments below.

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