my favore gay album.
Contents:
- IS TYLER, THE CREATOR G OUT AS A GAY MAN OR JT A QUEER-BAG PROVOTR?
- TYLER THE CREATOR SAYS HE IS GAY ON NEW ALBUM “FLOWER BOY”
- IS TYLER, THE CREATOR COMG OUT AS GAY ON NEW ALBUM?
IS TYLER, THE CREATOR G OUT AS A GAY MAN OR JT A QUEER-BAG PROVOTR?
Tyler The Creator has e out the closet and nfirms that he is gay on his new album Scum F**k Flower Boy. The album was somehow leaked onle on Sunday * is flower boy a gay album *
It’s not easy beg a gay hip-hop fan.
For years, I’ve wrtled wh my love of the mic on one hand wh my distaste for the homophobia embedd wh on the other, grimacg at the tratg ease wh which a rapper is able to say faggot, a hateful word that no straight person has any right to be g.
TYLER THE CREATOR SAYS HE IS GAY ON NEW ALBUM “FLOWER BOY”
Fans spect the 26-year-old spter will potentially e out as a gay on his new album which is set to arrive on July 21. * is flower boy a gay album *
I’ve found this pecially problematic wh the mic of Tyler, the Creator, the 26-year-old provotr whose lyrics have often aimed to shock and repulse, whether addrsg vlence agast women (“Punch a bch her mouth jt for talk’ sh”) or his apparent disgt at gay men (“Come take a stab at , faggot, I pre-orred your sket”).
IS TYLER, THE CREATOR COMG OUT AS GAY ON NEW ALBUM?
“I’m bummed out bee ’s like, du, I’m not homophobic. This progrsn has e to a crcendo wh his latt album, the dreay melancholic Flower Boy, the tle of which potentially acts as a clue to what might be his most ntroversial statement the rapper who ed the word faggot, or other anti-gay variatns, 213 tim on his but album actually be gay or bisexual himself? In an terview, he once said he “100% would go gay for ’96 Leo”, and a recent Instagram post married a picture of DiCapr om Romeo + Juliet wh the words “y boyiend y” another new track, Garn Shed, there are a number of referenc, both oblique and obv.
”The songs have led fans to turn tectiv by lvg to Tyler’s past terviews, songs and social media posts, surg them for evince that might support the assertn that one of rap’s most seemgly homophobic figur might have been gay all along. The clu range om the slight to the slightly ’s quipped about dulgg gay sex on tracks like Seven and Domo 23, released a le of T-shirts that reappropriated a symbol of whe supremacy wh rabow lors – oh, and tweeted this out:I TRIED TO COME OUT THE DAMN CLOSET LIKE FOUR DAYS AGO AND NO ONE CARED HAHAHHAHAHA— Tyler, The Creator (@tylerthecreator) April 13, 2015. Or is this jt another example of a button-phg attentn-seeker, ridiculg the gay experience for puerile effect?
In a Rollg Stone profile om 2015, the journalist Ernt Baker noted the nstant referenc to beg gay amid the banter of Tyler and his entourage, g him to wonr what exactly was at the root.