Q&A
Q & A
WITH TYLER THE
CREATOR
Tyler’s created is like
nothing hip-hop has
ever seen. It’s a source of
constant, unstepped-on
stimulation. Equal parts
sensitive and irreverent.
Cartoons and gay-pride
T-shirts and Converse
that sell out and a mas-
sive yearly carnival/fes-
tival that everyone near
Los Angeles turns up for.
His musical catalog is full
of complicated explo-
rations of suicide, love,
angst, and dick jokes. In
his videos, one minute
he’s glossy faced while
butterflies
gracefully
land on his neck, while
the next, he’s wearing
a man’s surgically re-
moved face to escape
the cops. His world is
lawless, limitless, and lu-
crative. So you can’t really
blame him if he’s bored
with the one that the
rest of us are stuck in. To
someone like Tyler, the
Creator, all that a place
like Paris, France, can of-
fer is cookies and Marni.
WHERE DID YOU
GET YOUR LOVE
OF JAZZ FROM?
I don’t know. It’s just
what my ear gravitates
to. My mom played some
around the house. But
it’s just certain things,
musically, that my ears
just gravitated to since
a young child.And that’s
why—HOPE YOU GUYS
DON’T GET ATTACKED!
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