Tyler, The Creator has responded to “racist-ass” Taylor Swift fans looking to call him out over lyrics from his past songs.
At a special pop-up show in Boston titled 30 Minutes Of Chromakopia on Halloween, celebrating the release of his latest album, which dropped last Monday (October 28), Tyler spoke to the crowd talking about how Taylor Swift fans were trying to “cancel” him over his old lyrics – mostly in response to him surpassing her on the global Spotify Top Artists chart for a brief spell, which Chart Data reported.
“I got Swifties all mad at me with their racist ass,” he said while on top of a green shipping crate. “Bringing up old lyrics, bitch, go listen to ‘Tron Cat,’ I don’t give a fuck. They gonna bring out the old me.”
NME has reached out for a comment to representatives of Taylor Swift. See a clip of the moment below, along with footage of the pop-up performance.
Tyler, The Creator responds to online hate he has received for his controversial lyrics:
“I got swifties all mad at me with their racist ass. Bringing up old lyrics, […] bitch I don’t give a fuck hoe.”pic.twitter.com/9LrcnSYYZK
— Pop Base (@PopBase) November 1, 2024
Tyler, The Creator held a pop-up Chromakopia concert on top of the Converse store at the brand’s headquarters in Boston ⚫️🟢 pic.twitter.com/IenHgCSpaU
— Nice Kicks (@nicekicks) October 31, 2024
chromakopia came to boston :’)))
and two weeks before flog i-
thank u @tylerthecreator pic.twitter.com/wafwyUZTna— winnie bo binnie (@ryn_leigh) October 31, 2024
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Stereogum pointed out that Swift has been namedropped in Tyler’s lyrics before – on the track ‘Fish’, from 2011’s Goblin, Tyler imagines sleeping with her with some graphic wordplay. On the same album’s ‘Nightmare’, he raps: “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.”
In the wake of the album’s release, Tyler has also announced more dates for his giant ‘Chromakopia’ world arena tour. He’s added three shows in his hometown of Los Angeles, along with New York, Austin, and Seattle, while adding on to his European leg with another Paris date. Australia has also received three new shows on the tour.
In NME‘s three-star review of ‘Chromakopia’, Fred Garratt-Stanley writes: “Within the chaos [of the album], there’s beauty — the sensitivity of ‘Hey Jane’, the infectious hip-hop bite of ‘Thought I Was Dead’, the rising cacophonies of brass and percussion on ‘I Killed You’. But perhaps a less frantic approach would’ve benefited the listen overall.”