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Tyler, The Creator releases “tantrum set to music” in response to visa issues

By | Published on Wednesday 14 October 2015

Tyler, The Creator

Tyler, The Creator has released a track called ‘Fuck It’ referencing his recent problems when trying to tour in Australia and the UK. In it he complains of being judged on past lyrics when he’s already moving on and trying to do something better, and questions why Eminem doesn’t face the same issues.

“Tell Australia I’m sneaking in with a mic in my damn hand, instead of the vegetables that I packed in my backpack”, he raps. “When Marshall had this problem what the fuck was they telling him? Is it cause of status or his melanin lacks black?”

“I think people love to be mad”, he concludes, before offering: “How can I be misogynist, I love titties and ass, how can I be homophobic when my boyfriend’s a fag”.

Those are exactly the kind of lyrics that wind people up, of course. Though later in the track he defends his right to use them and then distances himself from the earlier words.

“Freedom of speech? My freedom was breached, border patrol put me on streets immediately, for shit I said when I was a virgin repeatedly, posting on Hypebeast cause nobody would listen me”.

He also criticised fans who want him to continue churning out those lyrics he wrote as a teenager. Writing from their point of view, he says: “Tyler losing himself, that nigga turned to a diva, nigga preaching and smiling, nigga wilden and breathing, tryna inspire all the little niggas that wanna be him, but fuck that! We want: ‘Cats, cats, daddy problems, kickflip, fuck, fuck, cupcakes, buttrape, golf wang, daddy problems, fag, fag, dad, dad, bike, lake, everything that I hate, plus being sad”.

Speaking to 7 News in Australia, Caitlin Roper of Collective Shout, the organisation that led the campaign for the rapper (and more recently Chris Brown) to be barred from entering the country, said: “He’s essentially had a tantrum [set] to music. While he may have been a young man when he wrote music describing raping women, mutilating their bodies, locking them in his basement and raping their corpses, he’s not a child anymore, and he is yet to grow up and take responsibility for what he has put out into the world”.

Though she added that she did agree that if Tyler was barred from entering Australia, so too should Eminem, saying: “Collective Shout partnered with a coalition of domestic violence organisations in 2014 calling on the government to deny Eminem a visa”.

Listen to ‘Fuck It’ here:



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