{"id":490219,"date":"2019-09-17T13:02:50","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T19:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=886113"},"modified":"2019-09-17T13:02:50","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T19:02:50","slug":"college-student-accused-of-making-terroristic-threat-after-posting-old-tyler-the-creator-lyrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/college-student-accused-of-making-terroristic-threat-after-posting-old-tyler-the-creator-lyrics\/","title":{"rendered":"College Student Accused of Making Terroristic Threat After Posting Old Tyler, The Creator Lyrics"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A student at the University of Southern Alabama was arrested and accused of making a terroristic threat after writing old Tyler<\/a>, the Creator<\/a> lyrics on a large flip chart in the school library, The Associated Press<\/em><\/a> reports.<\/p>\n

Jack Aaron Christensen, 21, reportedly wrote the refrain from Tyler\u2019s 2011 song \u201cRadicals,\u201d<\/a> \u201cKill people, burn shit, fuck school.\u201d Per Pitchfork<\/a>, Christensen\u2019s message also included the phrases, \u201chail satan 666, praise the devil,\u201d which do not appear in \u201cRadicals.\u201d<\/p>\n

The \u201cRadicals\u201d refrain became an early rallying cry for Odd Future fans, and though it was obviously tongue-in-cheek, the studio version of the song opened with Tyler delivering the disclaimer: \u201cHey, don\u2019t do anything that I say in this song, OK? It\u2019s fucking fiction. If anything happens, don\u2019t fucking blame me, white America.\u201d<\/p>\n

Representatives for the University of Southern Alabama police department and the Mobile County District Attorney\u2019s Office did not immediately return Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2018s request for comment. A representative for Tyler, the Creator also did not immediately return a request for comment.<\/p>\n

The incident with Christensen allegedly took place on or around September 11th. It also reportedly took place in the same week another University of Southern Alabama student was arrested on the same charge for allegedly posting a threat on social media (that case and Christensen\u2019s are unrelated).<\/p>\n

Michael Mitchell, the school\u2019s vice president for student affairs, wrote in an e-mail to students and employees, \u201cThe students involved in each incident have been barred from university property pending the outcome of student conduct processes. No matter the circumstances, our police must treat any possible threat with the utmost seriousness and act immediately to ensure the safety of our campus community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tyler, the Creator\u2019s lyrics have caused controversies in the past, most notably prompting New Zealand to ban him and Odd Future in 2011<\/a> and 2014<\/a>, and the United Kingdom<\/a> to ban the rapper in 2015 (both bans were<\/a> lifted<\/a> this year). After being denied entry into the U.K., Tyler gave an interview<\/a> with The Guardian<\/em><\/a> where he took umbrage with the country\u2019s decision to ban him despite seemingly acknowledging that his lyrics had been written from the perspective of an alter ego.<\/p>\n

\u201c[T]hey obviously did some research on these songs that they\u2019re detaining me for,\u201d he said. \u201cSo the argument is right there! This song is written from an alter ego \u2014 I\u2019m not like this! You could watch any interview and see my personality; see the guy I am. I wouldn\u2019t hurt a fly.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A student at the University of Southern Alabama was arrested and accused of making a terroristic threat after writing old Tyler, the Creator lyrics on a large flip chart in the school library, The Associated Press reports. Jack Aaron Christensen, 21, reportedly wrote the refrain from Tyler\u2019s 2011 song \u201cRadicals,\u201d \u201cKill people, burn shit, fuck […]<\/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":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-490219","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 11:38:03","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":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}