Tyler, the Creator har alltid setts som en avslappnad kille, men han bryr sig uppenbarligen väldigt mycket om sin konstform. Det framgår i en ny intervju där han tar bladet från munnen och verkligen säger vad han tycker om dagens rappare.
I intervjun med LeBron James parhäst Maverick Carter och hans “Mavericks”-podcast, uttalade sig Tyler på följande sätt kring dagens rapklimat:
“I don’t want to seem like a hater. Sometimes I have hater energy because I just think I’m that good”, menade han och fortsatte:
“I love this art form so much, bro, and there’s so many n-ggas out right now that aren’t musicians that are getting treated like musicians because they make meme records.”
“They’ll publicly be like, ‘I don’t give a fuck about music. I just do this shit for money.’ It’s like the Spider-Man meme of the next n-gga. When every publication is like, ‘Hell yeah, let’s put that out!’ Now you’re taking up space for n-ggas like me.”
I en annan del av intervjun ber Tyler om ursäkt till Eminem för att ha hatat på hans “Recovery”-album från 2010. Något han ångrade efter att ha sett Netflix-serien “Painkiller”, som handlar om opioid-krisen i USA. Eminem var som bekant pillermissbrukare under stora delar av hans karriär.
“After watching [Painkiller on Netflix], I felt so bad about those tweets and things like that because thinking from his perspective, someone like me publicly saying that stuff and him getting off drugs and being clean and getting to a point in his life that that’s behind him and me implying that this shit is wack – he probably felt like I was attacking him. I thought I was like I was just like, ‘I don’t like the music.’ He was in a different part of his life and probably felt like I was attacking him”, säger han bland annat och fortsätter:
“And now I feel so bad about saying that stuff because my perspective was so limited. And I love him, that dude taught me how to rap. I learned how to put words together in rhythm because of some of the Eminem stuff I was hearing and story telling and things like that. So after watching that show a few months ago, that gave me perspective and I felt so terrible about some of the things I said about the Recovery album because I realized that was a big step.”
“It meant a lot to him and my fucking young stupid ass was like, ‘I wanna hear “Same Song & Dance”! I loved The Eminem Show!’ But he’s not there anymore. I felt terrible. If I ever see him, I wanna tell him that in person.”
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