Tyler, the Creator Issues Long Response to Fan’s Reddit Post Criticizing His New Music
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Over the last few years, Tyler, the Creator has used the question-and-answer social network Spring.me (formerly known as Formspring) to interact with his fans. Today, he gave a lengthy answer to a thread posted by a Reddit user who said he was “done” with Tyler’s music (via Hot New Hip-Hop). “Yes, I know he’s happy now and that’s great,” the user wrote. “But he’s gotta realize many of the old fans aren’t big on this new stuff.”
In response, Tyler wrote:
why cant i share my joy with the world? ohhh, it was cool when i was raping girls and telling you how sad i was on records, but when shit changes and im feeling great and i fuck with myself you cant deal with it? cause you cant relate? is that why? or maybe its my ego talking. idk know what it is, but after a while you realize you dont want to be around people who isnt positive, who isnt focused who dont want more. why would you want to be around someone is is a downer?
and i dont even mean depressed, i mean niggas who is always just fucking everyones mood up? everytime they talk its something negative? am i wrong cause i dont want that in my life? its crazy, all im doing is spreading good vibes and tryna give some confidence to people and at least telling them they can accoplish something. sometimes giving some people some hope can really push people to be great.
The fan also said he most related to Tyler when he was rapping about “feeling depressed because he was stuck in a house arguing with his grandma,” to which Tyler responded:
dude, that was in 2011. its 2015, if he really thinks that 4 years later i would still be living on my dead grandmothers floor, and still be sad with all these amazing things happening around me, then he is stuck in 2011. and i dont mean that in a bad way, when you have a favorite artist, you tend to grasp onto an era, trust me i do that with artist that i love but i also know they grow and see new things and change and mature and all of that. im sorry that im not in the same place to talk about those things that were happening in 2011. i dont know what to tell you, my life is in a different spot right now and like on every album, i talk about whats going on in my life AT THAT MOMENT. shit, that would be sooo sad if i was making the same album over and over again.
In response to claims he was “sneak-dissing” Earl Sweatshirt and Kendrick Lamar by criticizing conscious rap in a recent interview, Tyler said, “i never said anything about kendrick and thebe, in that interview i do recall said its either you talking about trapping and selling drugs, or doing the opposite talking about black power and all that. dont twist my fucking words dude.”
Additionally, the fan said he “wasn’t surprised” that Odd Future no longer hangs out with Tyler, to which he replied:
im not gonna go into that. the thing that does suck is that people that dont know what goes on in our personal lives always seems to think they know whats really going on. trust me, you dont know. and to read that comment made me kinda bummed, cause the tone made it seem like im sus or the bad guy, ha.
You can read the whole response here.
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