If it offends you, it offends you…If you call me a n-a, I really don’t care, but that’s just me, personally. Tyler also told MTV News, in response to the controversy: “Well, I have gay fans and they don’t really take it offensive, so I don’t know. I don’t want anyone to think I’m homophobic.” I don’t know, we don’t think about it, we’re just kids. I just think ‘faggot’ hits and hurts people. Tyler told NME at the time: “I’m not homophobic. He used the word “faggot” and its variants 213 times on his debut album and was blasted by GLAAD for homophobic and misogynistic lyrics. Tyler has been creating controversy for years with his lyrics. Thought it would be like the Frank poof, goneīarely interested, but I went to my boys like bruh Truth is, since you kid, I thought it was a phase I didn’t wanna talk and tell em’ my location Garden shed, garden shed, garden shed, garden shed
They suggest the garden shed is the closet, the Frank reference is Frank Ocean… He also said this in August of last year in response to a tweet from Kendall Jenner regarding rumors that they were dating:Īlso, via Highsnobiety, here are the lyrics to Tyler’s first verse on “Garden Shed” referenced above. I TRIED TO COME OUT THE DAMN CLOSET LIKE FOUR DAYS AGO AND NO ONE CARED HAHAHHAHAHA As well as pointing out the album’s name itself perhaps being indicative of this, Twitter users highlighted bars such as, “I been kissing white boys since 2004″ on “I Ain’t Got Time,” and the album’s seventh track “Garden Shed,” featuring Estelle, where Tyler raps, “That was real love I was in, Ain’t no reason to pretend” before spitting “All my friends was lost / They couldn’t read the signs / I didn’t want to talk / I tell ’em my location and they ain’t want to walk” later on in the song.ĭespite always being one to joke around and poke fun at himself, Tyler’s been playing around with his sexuality for years, with a Tweet back in 2015 seemingly affirming these notions. The most interesting takeaway from the leak is the album’s lyrics, which can be interpreted as Tyler coming out. A post shared by Tyler, The Creator reported: