“Because you like a song, or because you like a movie, does that give you permission to be weird?” he said.
Tyler, the Creator He's not the type to hold his tongue – and he spoke the truth during his appearance on Mavericks With Maverick Carter. A trailer for the interview, which includes Tyler’s thoughts on meme rappers, went viral yesterday. But the full interview with Carter was released today, and some of Tyler’s ire has gone out to his trolling fans. During the 26-minute conversation, Tyler slammed the “weird” fans who “sometimes” make him exhausted from making music.
“These niggas are getting on my nerves, bro,” he laughed at Carter. “The internet is crazy, these kids hack everything… They wanna know who your sister is, what you had for dinner… Mind your own business. Go outside and listen to some fucking art or music. Because of the internet, people don’t know personal boundaries anymore, it’s become normal…”[but] “It's like, 'We don't know each other.'”
He adds that this dynamic isn’t limited to musicians but anyone in the public spotlight. “Because you like a song or you like a movie, that gives you permission to be weird?” He has a stern warning for fans who “like to be weird niggas” from artists: “Bro, you’re gonna get shot.”
He also offers a compelling critique of the modern cult of celebrity. He counters the “I signed up for this” mantra often imposed on artists, pointing out that innovations like phone cameras and home address databases have given fans access that didn’t exist when he started making music in 2009. “The social landscape in 2011 is very different from now. There weren’t iPhones everywhere… Touring, living, meeting people was very different until 2016 when our phones became a thing,” he says, adding that he never anticipated how technology would erode his right to privacy over the years.
Elsewhere in the conversation, he opened up about his positive relationship with his mother and his love for DJ Quik. Carter told that he wrote his first verses at age seven for the first half of the Black Eyed Peas' “Positivity” (calling Will.I.Am a “genius”), said he feels like his songwriting has grown symbiotically with his music, and admitted that watching Painkillers gave him a new perspective on Eminem's music. restoration The album he had previously criticized.
