Meanwhile, others are wondering why he hadn't talked about it before. If Tyler, The Creator has come out as gay/bi then that is beautiful man. Tyler the creator took an entire track to come out and it's beautiful as hell Omg I'm reading theories that Tyler will come out in his new album & honestly if this true I am so here for it He gets more literal on "I Ain't Got Time!": Shout-out to the girls that I lead on for occasional head and always keeping my bed warmĪnd trying their hardest to keep my head on straight On the opening track, "Foreword," Tyler raps: The speculation is the result of a number of lyrics on the album. Hol up.did tyler really come out the closet in the album? Most internet-savvy Tyler fans woke up Monday morning to news that Flower Boy had leaked two weeks early, and while the first question was, "How did an album leak this early in 2017," the second was, "Wait, is Tyler, the Creator rapping about his sexuality on Flower Boy?"Īight I'm so confused. Lonely." The songs were the lead-in to Tyler's fourth studio album Scum Fuck Flower Boy, due out July 21.
After a series of tweets counting down to a date (with a lit bee in each image), we got the one-two punch of "Who Dat Boy" and "911/Mr. “But maybe someone will see this photo and say ‘ hey, he’s just mocking gays’ or ‘this has a negative undertone to it, he is still pushing this homophobic whatever the fuck it is.Near the end of June, Tyler, the Creator started hinting at. “i’m legit one of the least homophobic guys to walk this earth but, most people just read the surface,” he wrote.
Promoting a rainbow-themed shirt that repurposed a white pride logo, Tyler explained his design on a 2015 Tumblr post. Oh, and Cole Sprouse.”ĭespite his constant use of homophobic slurs, Tyler has more recently come out in support of the LGBT community with “Pride” shirts through his Golf Wang company. I one hundred percent would go gay for ’96 Leo. When asked why he jokes about homosexuality so frequently, Tyler responded: “Because I’m gay as fuck.” Asked if he was being serious, Tyler added: “No, but I am in love with ’96 Leonardo DiCaprio. “My friends are so used to me being gay,” he said. In that same interview, Tyler referenced his own sexuality multiple times. Speaking of Frank Ocean and his constant use of homophobic slurs, the Flower Boy MC said: “He knows I don’t care about being gay. I TRIED TO COME OUT THE DAMN CLOSET LIKE FOUR DAYS AGO AND NO ONE CARED HAHAHHAHAHAĪlso in 2015, Tyler, the Creator spoke about sexuality with Rolling Stone. “I TRIED TO COME OUT THE DAMN CLOSET LIKE FOUR DAYS AGO AND NO ONE CARED,” he tweeted. In April of that year, he tweeted about coming out, as well.
“How can I be misogynist? I love titties and ass / How can I be homophobic when my boyfriend’s a / We’ve been hiding in the closet like our passionate fashion / Still trying to come out.” In 2015, he fought back against the years of criticism on “Fuck It.” “I think people love to be mad,” he rapped on the track. In fact, he used a variation of the f-word numerous times on his breakout album Goblin, according to NME. Early on, he was heavily criticized for his use of homophobic slurs.
Tyler’s thoughts about homosexuality have been a major topic throughout his career.
Still, it is unclear whether the lyrics on Flower Boy are meant to be taken as a personal revelation from Tyler and the rapper has not issued a statement about his sexuality. There is also a radio segment in which a man requests a song about himself, which leads into “See You Again,” a romantic track about a person with “rose to the cheeks…dirt-colored eyes sugar honey iced tea.” He adds: “Yeah I’d give up my bakery to have a piece of your pie.” On “I Ain’t Got Time,” he adds: “Next line will have ’em like ‘Whoa’ / I been kissing white boys since 2004.” On another track, he reportedly raps: “All my day ones turn to three, fours cause of track seven,” referencing back to “Garden Shed.”