I’ve never considered Tyler, The Creator to be someone who harbors prejudices towards gay people as others have believed I merely found him confounding when it came to his defiant defense of the word.įunnily enough, Juzwiak’s essay begins, “It's hard to imagine a purportedly heterosexual artist who has a more intimate relationship with the word ‘faggot’ than the rapper Tyler, the Creator.” Years later, we may now have insight as to Tyler’s relationship with the slur. In other words, he has used the term to be overtly homophobic when it suited him and argued that no one should be offended when his usage denoted casual homophobia because he doesn’t hate gay people or anything.
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I don't want anyone to think I'm homophobic.” He was 20 years old.Īs writer Rich Juzwiak noted at the time, Tyler used the word when expressing anger at his absentee father and to convey rage at his step-father, who called him a faggot. I don't know, we don't think about it, we're just kids. I just think 'faggot' hits and hurts people. Yet, two years earlier, he told NME: “I'm not homophobic. The way that I see things, it’s you chose to be offended if you care more about stuff like that.” In 2013, during an appearance on The Arsenio Hall Show, Tyler said, “That’s just a word, you can take the power out of that word. Tyler, The Creator’s excessive use of the word faggot has always felt, to me, like an exercise in willful ignorance and selective reasoning.