I TRIED TO COME OUT THE DAMN CLOSET LIKE FOUR DAYS AGO AND NO ONE CARED HAHAHHAHAHA The same year, he responded to speculation that he was dating Kendall Jenner, saying “not possible, we’re both gay”, and also released a t-shirt that reworked a white supremacist symbol with a rainbow. There have been repeated hints to his potential sexuality in the last couple of years, such as a 2015 tweet the sentiments of which those Garden Shed lyrics seem to repeat. I don’t want anyone to think I’m homophobic.”
I don’t know, we don’t think about it, we’re just kids.
The track I Ain’t Got Time features the lyrics “Next line will have them like woah / I been kissing white boys since 2004” meanwhile, on the track Garden Shed, featuring Estelle, the lines “That was real love I was in, ain’t no reason to pretend / All my friends was lost / They couldn’t read the signs / I didn’t wanna talk / I tell ’em my location and they ain’t want to walk” crop up.Īfter repeated use of homophobic slurs on his first album, Bastard, back in 2009, he also made some pretty problematic comments in a 2011 interview with NME: “I’m not homophobic, I just think ‘faggot’ hurts people. Tyler the Creator’s new album, Flower Boy was leaked over the weekend, two weeks before the intended release date, and some of his lyrics have been causing quite the stir…įans paying close attention to the contents of Tyler’s latest offering have spotted a few lines that seem to confirm what he’s been hinting at for the last few years (and that people have just brushed off as another one of the artist’s controversial comments).