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Is Tyler the Creator gay? Fans spect rapper me out based on lyrics om his new album.

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TYLER, THE CREATOR COM OUT AS GAY ON "GARN SHED"

From Tyler, the Creator to Lil Nas X, hip-hop has never had so many stars who intify as gay or bisexual. Is this a blip or a turng pot? * tyler the creator gay lyrics *

” In honor of that remix, we cid to take a look at five of our favore Tyler, the Creator gay lyrics (and more broadly queer lyrics, too). 5 Tyler, the Creator gay lyrics that’ll leave no doubt he’s a queer hip-hop star.

IS TYLER, THE CREATOR G OUT AS A GAY MAN OR JT A QUEER-BAG PROVOTR?

MTV's Bt New Artist hurls hundreds of anti-gay slurs on his new album. "I'm not homophobic," he has explaed. "Gay jt means you're stupid." * tyler the creator gay lyrics *

We had to start our list of favore Tyler, the creator gay lyrics wh his newt. We particularly love this b om “Garn Shed, ” his llaboratn wh Estelle, which Tyler, the Creator jok about the monly held belief (mostly by disappoted parents) that homosexualy is “jt a phase. Pl, this lyric slyly the word “poof, ” Brish slang for a gay man.

Back then, fact, was assumed Tyler was actually homophobic, due to some of his lyrics.

Tyler addrsed that “Domo 23, ” sayg that to monstrate he wasn’t racist or homophobic he grabbed Lus, the whe member of Odd Future, and kissed him. But then Tyler scrib that, though he kissed Lus jt to piss people off, he might be havg feelgs for him — and plays off wh the homophobic le of straight bros everywhere, “No homo.

TYLER THE CREATOR’S NEW LYRICS: IS TYLER THE CREATOR GAY? WHO IS HE DATG?

” He then subverts s ual meang by addg “Too soon, ” implyg ’s too early for a gay relatnship wh Lus, as they hadn’t even had sex yet. Did we miss any of your favore Tyler, the Creator gay lyrics?

ALL THE TIM TYLER, THE CREATOR POSSIBLY ALLUD TO BEG GAY

CultureTyler, The Creator Com Out as Gay on "Garn Shed"Thanks to the mic muny that is we now have the full lyrics to the track "Garn Shed, " the song that l up the ter jt a few hours ago due to Tyler's alleged admissn of beg gay.

The song featur Estelle on the chos and bridge, while the send verse particular seems to addrs Tyler's supprsed homosexual Geni annotators lucidluxury and IJUSTLEFTEARF note, the le "Garn shed for the garns / Them feelgs I was guardg" supposedly addrs "the garn shed as a metaphor for a closet, which riv om the phrase 'g out the closet. 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. 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”).

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