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Earl Sweatshirt Brands Taylor Swift 'Shake It Off' Video 'Inherently Offensive'

The rapper isn't best pleased about Swift's latest video offering, branding it 'harmful'...

Taylor Swift has received a telling off from Earl Sweatshirt for her new music video, which he has branded 'inherently offensive'.

The Odd Future member is not a fan of Swift's twerking and hip-hop referencing Shake It Offclip (which he's not actually watched yet), and says it is guilty of 'perpetuating black stereotypes'.

'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,'he tweeted.

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

[related]'Perpetuating black stereotypes to the same demographic of white girls who hide their prejudice by proclaiming their love of the culture.'

'For instance, those of you who are afraid of black people but love that in 2014 it's ok for you to be trill or twerk or say n***a.'[sic]

Tay-Swift's new single Shake If Offis available to download now, and is the first to be released from her new album 1989, which is out October 27.

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