Tyler, the Creator Jokes About Having ‘Swifties All Mad at Me’ for His Old Lyrics
Tyler, the Creator might have been celebrating his album Chromakopia on Halloween, but he was also ready to come for Taylor Swift’s fans. During his “30 Minutes of Chromakopia” show in Boston Thursday, Tyler joked about how Swifties were trying to come for him for his old lyrics about the pop star.
“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 hoe,” Tyler joked. “I don’t give a fuck bitch. They gonna bring out the old me.”
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It’s unclear what led Tyler to bringing up the Swifties conversation, but Tyler has been name-dropping Swift in lyrics since 2011. On Goblin, he raps about Swift twice. “Make her strip, got my dick harder than the unzip,” he raps on “Fish.” “Tyler swiftly slips his dick inside of Taylor Swift’s slit.”
And on “Nightmare,” he says, “My father called me to tell me he loved me/ I’d have a better chance of gettin’ Taylor Swift to fuck me.” (He also recently dethroned Swift as the Number 1 most-streamed artist on Spotify.)
Tyler has been performing and throwing listening parties for Chromakopia in different parts of the country over the last week. He released the album on Oct. 28.
Tyler hosted a last-minute listening party at the Intuit Dome in L.A. Sunday, where he told the crowd that Chromakopia “originated with growing up in these areas.” “I was like ‘oh shit, nobody knows anything about me from before [I was 17],” Tyler said. He played the album in full, reflecting on his career to this point.
He’ll officially hit the road with the album in February, performing in arenas across the U.S., including stops at Los Angeles’ Crypto.com Arena and New York’s Madison Square Garden.
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