Tyler, The Creator has accused two former collaborators of selling old music of his without permission. In a post on Twitter, he says that rapper Brandun Deshay and keyboard player Tyler Major have been offering his early tracks for sale via the Discord messaging app.
“B Deshay and Tyler Major selling old songs of mine is wild ha”, he tweeted last week. “All them Discord kids are sus … copping stolen shit is like damnnnn u thirsty as hell OK”.
He went on to say that the songs allegedly being shared are “true personal stolen stuff”, adding: “Like damn bro, you that thirsty for two minute drafts / few hundred bucks? Get it together fellas”.
He also suggested that he had tried to contact both Deshay and Major directly without success before turning to Twitter.
Deshay - who these days performs as Ace Hashimoto - was a member of Tyler, The Creator’s Odd Future group between 2008 and 2010, and appeared on the track ‘Session’ on Tyler’s debut mixtape ‘Bastard’ in 2009.
However, the pair fell out around the release of that record and Tyler later re-released the mixtape with a different version of ‘Session’ featuring Mike G. Although Deshay’s vocals were subsequently restored and appear on the current version of the release.
Neither Deshay or Major have responded to Tyler’s accusations.