Rapper Tyler, The Creator’s recent album CHROMAKOPIA just dropped a few days ago. The album has already usurped Taylor Swift’s no. 1 spot on the Spotify Top Artist chart. Swift has dominated that particular chart for nearly 700 consecutive days. Tyler, The Creator took over the spot in a very short amount of time. We get why. Critics have been singing CHROMAKOPIA’s praises since it was released on October 28.
However, it looks like some Swifties aren’t happy about their fave getting knocked off the top spot. According to Tyler, The Creator himself, a number of Taylor Swift fans have been trying to cancel him over old lyrics. The famed rapper and producer claims that racism is the motivation behind much of the online comments about him after his album booted The Tortured Poets Department from the top of the charts.
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Tyler, The Creator: “I Got Swifties All Mad At Me”
Tyler, The Creator put on a “mini” concert on Halloween in Boston Massachusetts, where he donned his signature outfit from the promotional artwork for CHROMAKOPIA. While on stage for the brief 30-minute set, Tyler told the audience that he “got Swifties all mad at [him] with their racist a**.”
The comment was a reference to a group of Taylor Swift fans online who have allegedly been pulling up old controversial lyrics from Tyler’s past discography in the wake of his successful new release. Tyler faced quite a bit of criticism years ago for lyrics that many deemed homophobic and misogynistic.
Tyler, who has never been a stranger to or fearful of controversy, decided to poke fun at Swifties and said that he didn’t care at all about what they thought about his old music.
“I don’t give a f*** b****,” Tyler said on stage. “They gonna bring out the old me.”
This wouldn’t be the first point of contention between Tyler, The Creator and Taylor Swift fans. One of his older releases “Fish” directly references Taylor Swift in a very vulgar way. Swifties, obviously, didn’t take kindly to the obscene lyrics.
Tyler alleges that Swifties are trying to cancel him and also call on other fandoms to get Halsey’s newest release, The Great Impersonator, to usurp his spot on the charts. However, that probably won’t happen. In just a few days since CHROMAKOPIA was released, the album has become the biggest hip-hop release of 2024.
Tyler, The Creator is set to start his world tour in promotion of the album starting in February.
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