Tyler, The Creator - Advice for Young Creative Artists

when i was like i don't want to do this anymore we just stopped and focused on something else and i i think uh i think if anyone here is making stuff and you know you're starting to do it but you don't feel it anymore it's super fire to just stop like well i don't want to do this anymore and that's okay and just go do something else because you're not married to it um in the literal sense but also like you don't have to be married to ideas because it's there it's like put it to the side so okay okay okay okay okay okay okay i don't want it to sit in your closet i want you to wear it and dirty it up and live in it and have an orgy in it and write a song i'm i've always been a figured out type of guy even when i was a kid i couldn't screen print t-shirts so i went to officemax and bought the iron on stuff and saved money up to buy the good ink yep printed those designs ironed it on on a few t-shirts sold those would do that to garner up enough money to actually get the first one screen printed so like everything is figure-out-able it just depends on if you have the energy to do that that's that's will power right there right and creative right like you you figure out the reason everything is figure-out-able it's just like gotta figure that out you know i'm shutting things down i've worked with people where it's like yo what if we do this and then they already edit in their head and then they're like oh someone said no to something like that before so i don't know will this work and i'm like bro get out the gutter worse come to worse it's a no but let's at least try and then fail and with converse it's like man we have so many different ideas that didn't work and it's okay because all of that got us to this one end result that doesn't even have anything to do with it but you just learn along the way and see the in order to know what to do but some people try to know what to do before they see the [ __ ] and it just fully hinders everything and i'm just i'm so i don't get embarrassed so i'm so okay with failing and up and saying no well that didn't work what's next and surrounding yourself with people like that is the illusion where does that come from for you like oh i don't know you know what i mean you know like you just like you're just like you go like it you don't have like the apprehension well it's me my friend talk about all the time it's like nature versus nurture just that idea and i've just always been a super curious okay what's that over there like i hosted my kindergarten graduation like i was the mc it wasn't a teacher like i was like all right guys that was the dance class up next we have ron that's gonna show us a magic trick before we get to the ceremony like that was me so i've always been like yeah that guy you don't know any different yeah i just it's just me and you know some people are more quiet and reserved and observant and some people are center of attention and the nurturing part from that is just like i had a mother who was like yeah go on go dance gonna do this and it just says oh okay and you just keep growing up with that that energy that thought that um just like that so then when it comes to like uh having like aspirations or dreams or goals growing up not worrying about whatever people think or knowing you can just do it it goes to that so it's like i'm gonna do that in 10 years and then when it happens people are like how did that happen and it's like i don't know it's just doing that's just how i think i just make stuff i just make stuff i like at the time and you know i think as you get older things get more refined and yeah you become more of a sniper with your things if you want but i think i've just become more of a sniper of what i'm trying to do and i think i live life yeah like i go and do stuff and it's shown in my work yeah so whether it's shown in my work through sound or through cloth or through visual stuff it feels cohesive because of that because i'm just that's what it is so right right it's basically like your lifestyle translated into your art pretty much at least that shows i'm not a liar or your whole life is alive or my whole life is alive it's [ __ ] really good yeah dude like and we could put this on the shirt and then no when i go on stage because we're performing at a church i'm gonna pull my pants down and hump the air and that man is right there like all right i'm right there with you and what that is is everyone wants a cheerleader which just goes back to if i walk in converse and i'm like yo i know no one's gonna buy this but let's do an all silver shoe that looks like 3m that on the jackets construction workers wear and they're like all right let's do it and you need that you need cheerleading everyone wants a cheerleader absolutely all the all the floor stuff that i've been making the clothes i don't want to sell online because i want people to go to the stores and actually see it in person and touch it and then make the decision that they want it and when i did the store in malibu on the mountain every time a kid bought something i pulled them to the side and i said wear this don't keep it in the closet hung up don't keep it folded up wear it live in it have an orgy in it get beat up in it like wear it because we're at a time where like things don't hold personal value anymore it's now for other people even even um even a conversation of music now has changed people just say something's made but they can't articulate why they don't like it they don't have the vocabulary or the energy or the actual care people don't even like mostly talk about why they love that they actually like either and i'm hoping we get back to a point where like when you do open your mouth it is because you truly give a [ __ ] about it whether you dislike it or you truly love it and i see the i see the mix with music and clothing in that same realm so just i think i really think the internet ramped up in 2016. like something happened in just few and because of that like it's no more privacy everyone wants to know something everyone wants a leak everyone wants to just know things nothing could be a surprise and if i sit here and tell you what we have planned or what da da da then it's no point in really working on how to even show you like the element of surprise is fun the the initial oh i hate this or i like this it will get lost if i'm like yo in three months i'm putting out an orange shirt and then when i put it out when i put it out you knew it was gonna come through it's that excitement it's gone so i can't even answer that question that's fair instant gratification is not always the homie forms of like insecurity to me when artists put a snippet up of a song on the internet and wait to see how people react to it and let the let the crowd sourcing of opinion dictate if they're gonna put that out how do you not like your own song enough to put it out how do you wait to oh they're not with it we'll scratch it with it all right let's rush in and keep and keep doing that and then shoot a video for it it's like no just put it out like what no like when they be like yo sneak peek and it's a sample it's a sample that's not gonna come out for nine months i know my shoes were yeah you know how it works and then like if people were like ooh this ain't it and then they go away comes out right then we work but it's like bro have confidence in your like i hate i hate the leak snippet oh that's what i'm working on sneak peeks like bro just put it out when it's been done and go 100 have confidence what you're going to put out that's how i deal with music you don't see me like yo new album coming in eight months i'll shut up till it's done and then one day i pop the [ __ ] out you either like it or not but i'm going full force with that [ __ ] and bam a version of this stuff for a while people were like oh he rode the bike so sweet i do that all the time but like it's more nuanced it was a ill moment but like yeah i pretty i just do what i like and i've always done things i like yeah

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Length: 9min 3sec (543 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 05 2022