The realest moment in Sunday’s MTV Music Video Awards was when Tyler the Creator’s proud mom’s hands rose to the sky as she jumped for joy when she heard her son was the winner of MTV ’s Best New Artist award. “That was real love I was in, Ain’t no reason to pretend” he says on the track before spitting “All my friends was lost / They couldn’t read the signs / I didn’t want to talk / I tell ’em my location and they ain’t want to walk” a few bars later.Īll of that, coupled with Tyler’s social media activity going back a few years has fans ready to affirm the notion. The Unapologetic Homophobia of 'Tyler, The Creator'.
On “Garden Shed” featuring Estelle, he also raps about a forbidden love and his friends not knowing something he was keeping inside.
With Tyler, it’s always hard to know if he’s talking tongue in cheek but there are other clues that have the sleuths on KanyeToThe and Twitter assuming that Tyler did indeed come out of the closet. “Next line will have ’em like ‘Whoa’ / I been kissing white boys since 2004,” he raps on “I Ain’t Got Time!” a screeching, frenetic track where he shuffles through multiple flows on two different variations of the beat. But the actual leak wasn’t even the biggest news to come out of Flower Boy surfacing online randomly it was the content of the album - and one line specifically - that has fans wondering if Tyler announced to the world that he’s gay or bisexual. A leak is rare in the new streaming era of music where physical copies of albums can’t be snuck away to be ripped and every digital retailer gets the music at the same time, leaving less opportunities for the music to be pirated. Tyler, The Creator may have been planning to drop his new album Flower Boy in two weeks, but the internet had other plans as somebody got a hold of the album and leaked it online late Sunday night.