Much of the public was first introduced to Tyler the Creator during last night’s MTV Video Music Awards, after the young rapper won an award for Best New Artist and danced onstage with Will Ferrell, Jack Black, and Seth Rogen. What many of them will unfortunately learn if they now decide to pick up a copy of his album is that he also writes some of the most violently anti-gay and misogynistic music currently enjoying mainstream recognition.
NME reported, last June, that Tyler's album Goblin uses the word "faggot" 213 times.
It provoked Sara Quin of indie duo Tegan and Sara - pictured - to post a blog calling him out. She wrote: "While an artist who can barely get a sentence fragment out without using homophobic slurs is celebrated on the cover of every magazine, blog and newspaper, I'm disheartened that any self-respecting human being could stand in support with a message so vile."
Tyler responded to the singer by tweeting: "If Tegan and Sara need some hard dick, hit me up!"
Tyler told NME: "I’m not homophobic. I just think 'faggot' hits and hurts people. It hits. And 'gay' just means you’re stupid. I don't know, we don’t think about it, we're just kids. We don’t think about that shit. But I don't hate gay people. I don't want anyone to think I’m homophobic."
Tyler also told MTV News, in response to the controversy: "Well, I have gay fans and they don't really take it offensive, so I don't know. If it offends you, it offends you...If you call me a n---a, I really don't care, but that's just me, personally. Some people might take it the other way; I personally don't give a sh--."
I seriously doubt he has gay fans! Maybe some down-low dudes. But a proud, self-respecting LGBT person would NOT think this acceptable. AND SHAME ON MTV FOR REWARDING HIM.
He is disgusting. A pig. I'm his age, I'm not a kid I'm an adult. He needs to get over acting the naive child and grow up. He needs to use his brain, if he has one, and admit to being a homophobe. Then maybe he'll change his ways.
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I just do not understand how HATE can be rewarded.
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Just like people say dyke and it not mean anything, faggot is close to that point. i say dyke at least 200 times a day.. I'm not putting myself down but using it a a type of label for a butch or fem.. I don't believe Tyler is a homophobe he just has a potty-mouth like myself, an 18 yr old. I'm a Buddhist but when I get upset I still say "Jesus Christ" it's language, the definitions of words change constantly and I foresee that the term faggot will carry a different connotation in the next 5 yrs, though some may still take it in offense
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