Tyler is gay
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Early in Tyler the Creator’s career his music seemed fancy 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 inform 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 Plant 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 light boys. He did a wildly entertaining freestyle on Funkmaster Flex’s show where he rhymed endlessly about fooling around with Flex. He had a whole moment on Jerrod Carmichael’s amazing 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
Tyler Okonma , known as Tyler, the Creator is a rapper and record producer. Despite living a straight edge lifestyle, his music is known for existence 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 music, Okonma has designed his own clothing line, along with choose 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 song, 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 cease up f*cking their brother every time." This, as good as lyrics favor, "I could fuck a trillion bi
Tyler, The Creator apologises for hiding his sexuality in new song
The video for his new ballad 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 perceive 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