Tyler, The Creator reveals “terrifying” pregnancy scare on new album
Tyler, The Creator, has addressed many things on his new album CHROMAKOPIA and touches on many subject matters relating to his personal life. However, one of the most intriguing and shocking things the ‘Yonkers’ rhymer revealed was that he almost had a child with a much older woman.
The Odd Future founder spoke about the incident in the song ‘Hey Jane’, during which he talks about accidentally getting a woman pregnant years ago. The California emcee went into detail about the shock and various emotions he had after finding, rapping, “I didn’t pull out, wow, I’m disappointed in me, this ain’t like me / How could be I reckless? This ain’t my lifestyle / Never had no scare in my life ’til now / Ain’t in no space to raise a goddamn child.”
The song, in which Tyler rhymes over a series of smooth, silky soft chords and sparse drums, is straight to the point. The Jane being addressed in the track is an apparent pseudonym for a woman he met.
Speaking about the woman that could have been his baby mother, he also rhymed, “Hey Jane, I’m terrified, petrified / I don’t wanna give my freedom up or sanitize it / This is my fault, the results are justified / I fucked up, I’m stressed out, I’m dead inside.”
Hip-hop has been fascinated with Tyler, The Creator’s sexuality over the years, and he has previously confirmed he is bisexual. However, following his alleged fling with Jane, he questioned why they should keep the child when they weren’t even in a serious relationship.
Tyler even insists that he and Jane barely knew each other, rapping, “Our resumes unmet, the bus stopped that light / We ain’t make it to love yet / Took a short cut to forever, I’m upset / ‘Cause we was in the back, no strings with our tongues wet,” he spits.
Adding, “We haven’t boat tripped, we haven’t argued / We still learnin’ each other, I don’t know all you / And you don’t know all me, how am I to live with / That is not a good foundation to have kids with / Or maybe it is, maybe it’s not, just not yet.”
‘Hey Jane’ doesn’t clarify what decision the pair eventually made or when this alleged event happened. However, he does speak of her moving “back to London” suggesting Jane is from the UK.