Is tyler the creator really gay
Is Tyler, the Creator coming out as a queer man or just a queer-baiting provocateur?
It’s not simple being a gay hip-hop fan. For years, I’ve wrestled with my admire of the music on one hand with my distaste for the homophobia embedded within it on the other, grimacing at the frustrating ease with which a rapper is able to say faggot, a hateful word that no straight person has any right to be using.
I’ve found this especially problematic with the song of Tyler, the Designer, the 26-year-old provocateur whose lyrics have often aimed to shock and repulse, whether addressing violence against women (“Punch a bitch in her mouth just for talkin’ shit”) or his apparent disgust at gay men (“Come get a stab at it, faggot, I pre-ordered your casket”). They’ve even propelled him into legal troubles after he was prevented from performing in both the UK and Australia, labelled as a threat. ”I’m getting treated prefer a terrorist,” he told the Guardian in 2015. “I’m bummed out because it’s like, dude, I’m not homophobic. I’ve said this since the launch. The ‘hating women” thing – it’s so nuts. It’s based on things I made when I was super young, when no one was listening.”
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Early in Tyler the Creator’s career his music seemed appreciate the same agro homophobic misogynistic hiphop we’d heard so many times before but many people loved it because they understood that it wasn’t. It was different. I always thought Tyler was actually mocking aggro homophobic misogynistic hiphop by creating a caricature of it. He was so over the top with it that he was funny. He left that sound behind but he’s continued trying to shock and troll and provoke. Over the years one of the ways that Tyler’s tried to provoke is by telling us that he’s gay.
Tyler loves to tell us that he’s lgbtq+. He says it over and over. He says it in his song and in interviews and onstage and in freestyles. On his album Bloom Boy he said “I been kissing white boys since 2004.” He told Rolling Stone that he’s “gay as fuck." He’s said in other interviews that he prefers white boys. He did a wildly entertaining freestyle on Funkmaster Flex’s exhibit where he rhymed endlessly about fooling around with Flex. He had a whole moment on Jerrod Carmichael’s incredible show. He injects his queerness so often and in so many ways that it seems beyond a normal coming out moment. It s
Tyler, The Creator apologises for hiding his sexuality in fresh song
The video for his new lyric illustrates his apologies with more context. In his self-directed visuals, Tyler gathers all of his alter egos from his past album covers together on a stage and raps each apology using a distinct version of himself. While he raps about his sexuality, Tyler embodies his persona from his 2017 Flower Boy album, in which fans believe he came out as bisexual on songs like ‘I Ain’t Got Time!’ and ‘Garden Shed.’
Tyler also extends apologies to his mother, his “old friends,” “the fans who said I changed,” his ancestors and even those whose pronouns he gets wrong.
“Sorry I don’t wanna bro down, sorry I don’t comprehend your pronouns/ I don’t mean no disrespect, but damn, we just met, calm the fuck down/ Oh, I’m out of handle and I’m a jerk? A bank account could never match my worth/ I’m sorry, Mother Earth, polluted atmosphere with chemicals and dirt / These cars ain’t gonna buy and guide themselves, what the hell you believe I work for?” he says.
Towards the end, we can see the Goblin persona beat his current alias Tyler Baudelaire to a pulp, which might be a approve of a fresh phase in his life – a
Tyler, the Creator
Tyler Okonma , established as Tyler, the Creator is a rapper and record producer. Despite living a straight edge lifestyle, his music is recognizable for being edgy and controversial.
Two of Tyler’s albums, Igor (2019), and Call Me If You Get Lost (2021) debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 and each won Top Rap Album at the 2020 and 2022 Grammy Awards. Tyler is also a founding member of the alternative hip-hop collective Odd Future. Outside of song, Okonma has designed his possess clothing line, along with elect cover art for Odd Future. In 2024, he released Chromakopia , his eighth studio album, through Columbia Records having been written, produced, and arranged entirely by Tyler to great commercial success.
For many years, Tyler was assumed to be homophobic due to the frequent use of slurs in his music, though the rapper now has a reputation for lyrics about his attractions and sexual escapades involving both men and women.
When asked for some clarity on his sexual orientation in a GQ Magazine interview, he said, "I favor girls — I just terminate up f*cking their brother every time." This, as well as lyrics like, "I could fuck a trillion bi