Tyler, The Creator calls Taylor Swift fans “racist” for trying to “cancel” him
Last week, Tyler, The Creator released his eighth album, CHROMAKOPIA, which landed him the best streaming numbers for any hip-hop record in 2024. However, following the release of the project, the emcee began to address some of the people who were criticising him and some of his lyrics.
Before CHROMAKOPIA arrived, Tyler, The Creator, performed the album in its entirety as a large-scale listening party at the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles’ Inglewood neighbourhood. However, he also performed a special Halloween show in Boston, ‘30 Minutes Of Chromakopia.’
Shortly after, he did two impromptu pop-up shows in collaboration with sneaker brand Converse. One of the locations for a pop-up show was in Atlanta, where he performed some of his most loved tracks. However, during the show, he made it a priority to call out some of the Taylor Swift fans who he alleged had been attacking him online for lyrics. He even accused them of trying to “cancel” him.
According to the Flower Boy creator, they came after him because he briefly surpassed her on the global Spotify Top Artists chart. Screaming to the crowd, Tyler ranted, “I got Swifties all mad at me with their racist ass! Bringing up old lyrics, bitch, go listen to ‘Tron Cat,’ I don’t give a fuck. They gonna bring out the old me.”
Taylor Swift has previously featured in some of Tyler The Creator’s lyrics in the past. On his song ‘Fish’ from 2011’s Goblin, the California emcee raps a few rhymes about him and Swift having sex. On the same album on ‘Nightmare,’ he rhymes, “Love? I don’t get none, that’s why I’m so hostile to the kids that get some/ My father called me to tell me he loved me/ I’d have a better chance of gettin’ Taylor Swift to fuck me.”
Still, regardless of the Swifties, CHROMAKOPIA has led to Tyler, The Creator, becoming one of this year’s hip-hop stars. Following its release, the project amassed 85million streams in its first 24 hours on Spotify making it the biggest hip-hop album of the year so far, by first-day streams.
Furthermore, in the top 20 Spotify debuts of all time, CHROMAKOPIA ranks at number 16 and falls under several hip-hop projects, including Travis Scott’s UTOPIA, Kanye West’s DONDA, Kendrick Lamar Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers as well as three Drake albums.
Irrespective of this, it has put quality, authentic hip-hop back in the limelight after the year that gave us Ice Spice’s Y2K!