Tyler, The Creator responds to fans annoyed that he’s happy now
Rapper and Odd Future member Tyler, The Creator has never been one to shy away from using social media to discuss and combat his many vocal critics. So when 19-year-old Reddit user cokomok left a post yesterday on /r/OFWGKTA, declaring him or herself “done” with the Cherry Bomb rapper and citing the latest album’s move away from darker, more relatable material in favor of aspirational braggadocio, it wasn’t wholly surprising to hear that Tyler had taken to the internet to fire back.
Writing on his Spring.me—formerly Formspring—account, Tyler launched a 924-word response against the five-paragraph post, refuting claims that he talked too much about jewelry or cars on Cherry Bomb, or that he should still be expected to rap about his depressing past four years after Odd Future broke big:
he said he releated to me when i was depressed and living with my grandmother.
dude, that was in 2011. its 2015, if he really thinks that 4 years later i would still be living on my dead grandmothers floor, and still be sad with all these amazing things happening around me, then he is stuck in 2011. and i dont mean that in a bad way, when you have a favorite artist, you tend to grasp onto an era, trust me i do that with artist that i love but i also know they grow and see new things and change and mature and all of that. im sorry that im not in the same place to talk about those things that were happening in 2011. i dont know what to tell you, my life is in a different spot right now and like on every album, i talk about whats going on in my life AT THAT MOMENT.