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And Finally
Steve Albini and Tyler, The Creator begin war of words
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 12 August 2011
People don’t like Tyler, The Creator. He seems to rub many up the wrong way. Earlier this year Sara Quin of Tegan & Sara wrote an open letter to media outlets that were supporting his ‘Goblin’ album, questioning why no one was criticising his misanthropic lyrics.
Now punk and production legend Steve Albini has taken issue with Tyler, along with the entire Odd Future Collective. Having spent some time in their company, this week he said: “I am quite happy none of them engaged me directly, because at least one of us would have regretted it”.
Writing on the website for his Electrical Audio studio, he said: “I spent about 40 minutes with these little pricks at the end of May and I haven’t wanted to strangle anybody that much in a real long time. My band shared a shuttle with them in Barcelona. They piled onto the shuttle late, ‘niggering’ everything in sight, ‘motherfucking’ the driver, boasting into the air unbidden about getting their dicks sucked and calling everyone in the area a faggot. A female passenger tried to engage one of them in conversation, but he just stared at her with a dead-to-me stare while his seatmate flipped double birds in her face”.
He continued: “The whole trip they complained about not being at a McDonalds and repeatedly shouted for the ‘motherfucker’ to pull over so they could ‘get some fucking McDonalds nigger’. Interspersed with the McDonalds requests were shouted boasts about how often they masturbated and ‘fucked bitches, nigger’ and ‘got paid like a motherfucker fifty grand like a motherfucker’. They continued complaining that the trip was taking too long and insisted they be fed immediately all the way to the airport, where their minder presumably fed them”.
Finally, he said: “If the whole thing is a put-on, a bit of Vincent Gallo life-as-theater for the benefit of whoever happens to be sitting next to them, that’s no excuse. It’s being an asshole about being an asshole”.
Yesterday, Tyler wrote a rebuttal. Slightly longer than the one he wrote to Sara Quin, in which he suggested she might just “need some hard dick”, he wrote on Twitter: “[I] Feel like I have to defend myself. 1. I don’t know who the fuck Steve Albino [sic] is. 2. I don’t ‘nigger everything in sight’. 3. I never say fuck you to drivers. 4. We (Odd Future) never discuss how much we are making a show in public, ever. 5. Me nor anyone I know in my age group know who you are, old ass. [I’m] surprised you knew how to use a computer”.
Finally, referencing Albini’s late 80s noise rock band, he said: “And what’s good with Rapeman?”
