"Never more than a few minutes pass without him saying he's going to suck someone's dick or him accusing someone of wanting to suck dick. "I cannot emphasize how much gay humor plays a role in the atmosphere around him," reporter Ernest Baker wrote. Let’s go back to that Rolling Stone piece. Maybe he has been trying to come out for years, and because of his wild personality, everyone thought he was joking. Larry King asked him about the possibility of a "gay rap artist" in 2014, and he responded, "Why does that shit matter? Like, if he wanna fuck dudes or whatever, why does that matter?"
Tyler simply answered, "Because I'm gay as fuck," and then stated he would "go gay" for Cole Sprouse or Leonardo DiCaprio circa 1996. In 2015, a Rolling Stone reporter, confused by the 40 Year Old Virgin-esque "You know how I know you’re gay?" type of humor on Tyler's tour bus, asked why the rapper makes so many gay jokes. Journalists began delving into old interviews. They unearthed a tweet from April 2015 in which he declared, "I TRIED TO COME OUT THE DAMN CLOSET LIKE FOUR DAYS AGO AND NO ONE CARED HAHAHHAHAHA." They reexamined a lyric from the song "Fuck It," in which he raps, " How can I be homophobic when my boyfriend's a fag?" That shaky defense aside, some of Tyler's fans, when they got wind of the new lyrics, did some digging. To them, gay is gay, and fag is something else the negative connotation of the word remains, but the homophobia is somehow removed. It's like the defense used by the kids on South Park when they were called out for using "fag" as an insult. Ultimately, he argues, "faggot" is simply a word, and whatever offense one takes from it is not his fault. But he has always defended himself, saying he doesn't hate gays.
He is a frequent and infamous user of the word "faggot." His early music is full of the slur one example, from the track "Orange Juice," reads, " All you fuckin' bloggin’ faggots yappin' up that extra shit." His use of the word has always been controversial, and he has been bombarded with accusations of homophobia. This revelation might come as a shock to those who know Tyler only from headlines. Just to remove any possible doubt from listeners' minds, on "I Ain't Got Time," later in the album: " I've been kissing white boys since 2004!" You can tell by the sun-dappled guitars and the ebullient vocal feature from Estelle. He is both the sophomoric prankster of Adult Swim's Loiter Squad and the sadistic mind behind shocking, edgy works such as "Yonkers." But here, he seems sincere. " Truth is, since a youth kid, thought it was a phase/Thought it'd be like the phrase, 'poof,' gone/But it's still goin' on." " Them feelings that I was guardin'/Heavy on my mind/All my friends lost/They couldn't see the signs," he writes. It came in the exact middle, the seventh song of 14 tracks, "Garden Shed." Last summer, Tyler the Creator seemingly made a startling personal admission on his latest album, Flower Boy.