Is Tyler, the Creator g out as a gay man or jt a queer-bag provotr? | Hip-hop | The Guardian

Contents:

• IS TYLER, THE CREATOR G OUT AS A GAY MAN OR JT A QUEER-BAG PROVOTR?
• TYLER, THE CREATOR IS OPENLY GAY: WHO IS HIS BOYIEND?
• IS TYLER THE CREATOR GAY, WHY IS MSAGE ABOUT A ‘DRS’ NFG FANS?
• IS TYLER THE CREATOR GAY? EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE POPULAR RAPPER
• ALL THE TIM TYLER, THE CREATOR POSSIBLY ALLUD TO BEG GAY
• IS TYLER THE CREATOR GAY: GIRLIEND REIGN JUDGE, RELATNSHIP TIMELE
• TYLER, THE CREATOR COM OUT AS GAY ON "GARN SHED"
• WHY TYLER, THE CREATOR'S GAY PRI SHIRT IS MORE THAN JT A FASHN STATEMENT

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

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”).

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?

TYLER, THE CREATOR IS OPENLY GAY: WHO IS HIS BOYIEND?

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. When queried about , he claimed to be “gay as fuck” and said his iends were ed to him “beg gay”, but when asked outright, he nied ’s clearly somethg fetishistic for Tyler about homosexualy and the latt bout of gay referenc uld jt be a more tempered eratn of llg everyone a faggot or equatg gay wh stupid. I’m not phg the cynil ia that Tyler has “gone gay” to achieve the mercial succs of Ocean, but his msagg has clearly been tailored to avoid limg breakout he is straight, as he has claimed on multiple ocsns, then his ntued obssn wh all thgs gay strik me as schoolyard-level, mirrorg the tirome bag I n rell om straight teens back at school.

IS TYLER THE CREATOR GAY, WHY IS MSAGE ABOUT A ‘DRS’ NFG FANS?

Channel Orange also changed perceptns wh the mic dtry toward a gay artist of lor, and while acceptance of Ocean has -existed wh bigotry, progrs has been unniably monumental. We no longer take as a given that homophobia is a part of hip-hop (the recent uproar over some ill-advised ments om Migos signalg this), and artists such as ILoveMakonnen and Taylor Bent have e out early their reers whout facg as many problems as they might have ’s willgns to e speculatn over his sexualy shows that he’s now existg wh a genre that allows him to play wh labels (see also: Young Thug a drs) and even if turns out to be jt that – a game – we n at least take as a symbol of wir progrs.

IS TYLER THE CREATOR GAY? EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE POPULAR RAPPER

Gay or straight, he’s aware of how hip-hop has changed and that means rcg those numero (still unfiven) of faggot down to zero. This article was amend on 26 July 2017 to change the 213 of faggot on Tyler, the Creator’s but album to 213 of faggot and other anti-gay lyrics.

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

In a 2015 terview wh Rollg Stone, Tyler, The Creator listed a number of well-known men he'd like to hook up wh and referred to himself as "gay as f*ck. Fans around the world have been led to believe that Tyler is anythg but straight by everythg om his long-standg fondns for Leonardo DiCapr to tweets wh Kendall Jenner where he outright clared he is gay. The relatnship between Tyler, the Creator and queer culture has taken an tertg turn: His 2011 album Gobl, which featured 213 of the word "fag, " was rife wh homophobic slurs.

IS TYLER THE CREATOR GAY: GIRLIEND REIGN JUDGE, RELATNSHIP TIMELE

Although Tyler (born Tyler Gregory Okonma) hasn't directly addrsed the lyrics, he has prevly refuted accatns of homophobia. Tyler sisted that his gay fans wouldn't be offend by his language, and 2015 his crew Odd Future released a le of Pri T-shirts as part of their merchandise.

Fans are yet aga by discsg if he is gay after msag showg him talkg about wearg a drs found their way onto social media.

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

The nversatn that seems to have taken place between Tyler and another rapper, Maxo Kream, has left many wonrg if the former is homosexual. ”However, his actns and opns still wouldn’t nfirm if he’s gay as he uld also be bisexual, given that he has spoken about likg girls. Like “Ayo, I heard Tyler The Creator was gay”Another add, “i’m a fan of tyler, the creator” n mean 1 of 2 thgs.

WHY TYLER, THE CREATOR'S GAY PRI SHIRT IS MORE THAN JT A FASHN STATEMENT

’s eher “i’m gay/an ally to the queer muny” or “i’m a terribly queerphobic wannabe edgelord and i’m verg up by sayg my favoure artist is a queer black man. ”Overnight, the 20-year-old Atlanta native — born Montero Lamar Hill — beme the biggt gay pop star the world. ”“It’s hard to be out genr where beg gay, or exprsg your sexualy, is owned upon, ” add platum rapper and sger iLoveMakonnen, born Makonnen Sheran, who rose to fame as a protégé of Drake and me out as gay 2017.

”Before the viral sensatn of “Old Town Road” turned Hill to a pop star and gay in, hip-hop was already reachg a turng pot s clivy, as more young black men explorg sexualy and terrogatg masculy their work are gettg mastream attentn.

Rap culture has always been powered by unbridled machismo, and one would be hard prsed to not fd a gay slur embedd the lyrics of any of the genre’s most famo archects.