Surprise album releases are nothing new. Spurred on by the runaway success of Beyonce’s self-titled pop epic in back in 2013, the past few weeks alone have seen several prominent artists drop albums from seemingly out of nowhere, including Drake and Kendrick Lamar, who dropped his third album earlier this week.

But while the tactic is quickly becoming commonplace in an industry that’s constantly fighting against the scourge of leaked albums making their way onto Torrent sites, Los Angeles rapper Earl Sweatshirt, best known as a member of the Odd Future hip-hop collective, isn’t happy about his own surprise release.

In fact, as the young rhyme-slinger detailed in a series of irate tweets, he’s “livid” and he’s holding his own record label accountable. According to the rapper’s label, his third album, I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside, is due out 23rd March, but according to Sweatshirt, we’re not supposed to know that.

The album appeared in an iTunes listing on Monday night with no prior notice to any of Sweatshirt’s fans. As we previously mentioned, this is not an uncommon practice these days, but it’s not necessarily the one that Sweatshirt, real name Thebe Kgositsile, was hoping to pursue on this album.

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While the entire album was not leaked, as only one single, ‘Grief’, was made available for download, the timing has certainly got Sweatshirt fuming. “I would like to personally thank [Sony Music] for fucking up the roll out process of my shit. Someone gots to pay for their mistakes!” he tweeted.

“It’s trash to have to pay for someone else’s errors, I am fucking hot,” he continued. “Too many fucking cooks… don’t trust it if it doesn’t come from the source.” So far, Sony Music has not released a statement on the release of Earl’s album and the iTunes listing for the LP remains online.

Readers can check out ‘Grief’ below. The slow-burning anti-single is a slowed and thrower piece of black candy marked by bloated drums and phased-out clouds of synths, with Earl’s uneasy lyrics combining to give the track a truly creepy aura.

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