{"id":490991,"date":"2019-10-07T13:23:59","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T19:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=895729"},"modified":"2019-10-07T13:23:59","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T19:23:59","slug":"tyler-the-creator-heard-eminems-homophobic-slur-seems-unbothered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/tyler-the-creator-heard-eminems-homophobic-slur-seems-unbothered\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyler, the Creator Heard Eminem\u2019s Homophobic Slur, Seems Unbothered"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cWalk on Water\u201d<\/a> was supposed to be too big to fail. The saccharine and sentimental 2017 collaboration between Eminem<\/a> and Beyonc\u00e9 had all the surface-level machinations of two pop stars trying to engineer a surefire hit without ever asking if there was a reason for their song to exist. Apathy to the song was widespread \u2014 with Tyler, the Creator<\/a> summing up the consensus by tweeting<\/a>, \u201cthis song is horrible sheesh.\u201d<\/p>\n

Almost a year later, when most people had forgotten \u201cWalk on Water\u201d and Tyler\u2019s tweet, Eminem responded on \u201cFall\u201d by hurling a homophobic slur at the Igor<\/em> rapper. In an interview with The Guardian<\/a><\/em>, Tyler recalls feeling unfazed by Eminem\u2019s response and understanding its intent.<\/p>\n

\u201cDid you ever hear me publicly say anything about that?\u201d Tyler responded when asked about the lyric. \u201cBecause I knew what the intent was. He felt pressured because people got offended for me. Don\u2019t get offended for me. We were playing Grand Theft Auto when we heard that. We rewound it and were like: \u2018Oh\u2019 And then kept playing.\u201d<\/p>\n

During a sit down with Sway Callow<\/a>, Eminem admitted that Tyler\u2019s \u201cWalk on Water\u201d tweet was the \u201clast straw\u201d and a \u201cbreaking point.\u201d \u201cI was angry when I said the shit about Tyler,\u201d Em said. \u201cI think the word that I called him on the album, on that song was one of the things where I felt like this might be too far because in my quest to hurt him, I realize that I was hurting a lot of other people by saying it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The irony is that Tyler \u2014 who was hurled bratty gay slurs himself \u2014 now raps about same-sex attraction to men on Igor,<\/em> although he still won\u2019t answer questions about sexuality outside of his lyrics. In 2015, Tyler was banned from the U.K.<\/a> for three-to-five years after being targeted for his past homophobic and misogynistic lyrics<\/a> through anti-terrorism legislation. \u201cIt was kind of stupid, and after a while I was like: I don\u2019t even want to come back,\u201d he told The Guardian<\/em>. \u201cBut it was more the principle of: \u2018Y\u2019all really did this, over this? In comparison to other shit people do, that y\u2019all let in?\u2019 So I\u2019m happy that I got back. I feel like I won some invisible fight.\u201d<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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