Is tyler the creator really gay
Tyler, the Creator
Tyler Okonma , known as Tyler, the Creator is a rapper and record producer. Despite living a straight edge lifestyle, his music is known 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 Best 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 tune, Okonma has designed his own clothing line, along with select 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 exploit 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 like girls — I just end up f*cking their brother every time." This, as good as lyrics like, "I could fuck a trillion bi
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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 same-sex attracted. He says it over and over. He says it in his harmony and in interviews and onstage and in freestyles. On his album Petal 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 reveal where he rhymed endlessly about fooling around with Flex. He had a whole moment on Jerrod Carmichael’s astonishing show. He injects his queerness so often and in so many ways that it seems beyond a normal coming out moment. It s
Is Tyler, the Designer coming out as a gay dude or just a queer-baiting provocateur?
It’s not easy being a gay hip-hop fan. For years, I’ve wrestled with my love 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 fit to say faggot, a hateful synonyms that no vertical person has any right to be using.
I’ve found this especially problematic with the music of Tyler, the Author, the 26-year-old provocateur whose lyrics possess often aimed to shock and repulse, whether addressing aggression against women (“Punch a bitch in her mouth just for talkin’ shit”) or his noticeable disgust at male lover 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 favor 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 commencing. 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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Tyler, The Creator apologises for hiding his sexuality in new song
The video for his new tune 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 different 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 realize your pronouns/ I don’t represent no disrespect, but damn, we just met, calm the fuck down/ Oh, I’m out of touch and I’m a jerk? A bank account could never match my worth/ I’m sorry, Mother Earth, polluted air with chemicals and dirt / These cars ain’t gonna buy and drive themselves, what the hell you think 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 sign of a new phase in his life – a