{"id":974689,"date":"2020-01-26T20:57:35","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T03:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=943568"},"modified":"2020-01-26T20:57:35","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T03:57:35","slug":"tyler-the-creator-on-his-grammy-win-it-feels-like-a-backhanded-compliment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/tyler-the-creator-on-his-grammy-win-it-feels-like-a-backhanded-compliment\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyler, the Creator on His Grammy Win: It \u2018Feels Like a Backhanded Compliment\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On Sunday night, Tyler<\/a>, the Creator<\/a> won his first Grammy when 2019\u2019s IGOR <\/em>took home the year\u2019s award for Best Rap Album. He had mixed feelings about it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m half and half on it,\u201d he said, immediately after accepting the award. \u201cOn one side, I\u2019m very grateful that what I made could be acknowledged in a world like this, but also, it sucks that whenever we \u2014 and I mean guys that look like me \u2014 do anything that\u2019s genre-bending or that\u2019s anything, they always put it in a rap or urban category, which is \u2014 I don\u2019t like that \u2018urban\u2019 word. That\u2019s just a politically correct way to say the n-word to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

IGOR <\/em>is widely considered to be the best album in Tyler\u2019s discography, and also the furthest from a traditional rap album. There are relatively few verses of straightforward rapping, and often the album pulls from disco, funk, and R&B, and aesthetically had little in common with the albums he beat out in the Best Rap Album category.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I hear that, I think \u2018why can\u2019t we just be in pop?\u2019 Half of me feels like the rap nomination was a backhanded compliment,\u201d Tyler said. \u201cLike, oh, my little cousin wants to play the game, let\u2019s give him the unplugged controller so he can shut up and feel good about it. That\u2019s what it felt like a bit.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnother half of me is very grateful that the art that I made can be acknowledged on a level like this, when I don\u2019t do the radio stuff,\u201d he went on. \u201cI\u2019m not playing to Target, I\u2019m in a whole different world than what a lot of people here listen to.\u201d<\/p>\n

Watch Tyler\u2019s earlier performance of \u201cEarfquake\u201d and \u201cNew Magic Wand\u201d on the Grammy stage here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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On Sunday night, Tyler, the Creator won his first Grammy when 2019\u2019s IGOR took home the year\u2019s award for Best Rap Album. He had mixed feelings about it. \u201cI\u2019m half and half on it,\u201d he said, immediately after accepting the award. \u201cOn one side, I\u2019m very grateful that what I made could be acknowledged in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-974689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 20:47:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}