Tyler, the Creator on Gay Rappers, Profanity, and His Artistic Idiosyncrasies | SEASON 2

on Larry King now visionary rapper Tyler the Creator from the random heart work who's just our own style of things so people gravitated to it it was also like wow they made cool music and damn they're funny too anything you're a Renaissance man I don't know if that okay like in the future I wanna like I want to do films I want people mention my name I'm next to West Anderson recording turn T no I don't want to be I don't want my name to be mentioned exit other rappers I got at all well how do you deal with the suits let's do they're so caught up in money and they're scared of anything out of the norm so they'll be quick to say like oh [ __ ] that I want to talk to the head you I want him to know who I am where I'm coming from plus are you interested in girls of course I love freckles I love Jennifer Lawrence if you're watching this leave the [ __ ] you wait that's all next on Larry King now welcome to Larry King now his rap music may have launched him into the mainstream but Tyler the Creator is much more than just a rapper the 23 year old Los Angeles native also produces directs designs runs to massively successful clothing lines stars in the Adult Swim sketch comedy show loiter squad Tyler the Creator is the ringleader of the hip hop collective Odd Future a group of friends and inventive minds who have spawned a unique artistic reticence taking hold of the millennial generation I have no idea what I'm talking about but it sounds very very awesome they may be thick does it irritate you when people refer to you only as a rapper yes why I'm much more than that I just like making stuff in rhyming words together in a rhythm is just one of those things but it got you famous though didn't it ah I think I don't know I think my personality overall did with but it was wrapped it was broad era velvet for the most part more or less you don't knock it um yeah I don't knock it but I do so much other stuff that I just I put as time prevails I know for sure people are gonna recognize me for it so I don't really stress it what were you like as a kid in high school um annoying um where'd you go to school LA I changed yeah I changed schools every year I didn't have many friends like close ones well I was always uh I won out no pun we were close comic I was a class clown yes uh yeah I'm pretty much the same shorter shorter yeah oh I was shorter I got taller so how did the music thing start I've been in the music since a young one like the only seven year old spending birthday money as Sam Goody and like best buy on albums and every Christmas getting the catalogs and not looking at toys I only getting music and stuff and like focusing on them I like the different sounds of stuff okay in your DNA you're like you doing CDs like just things like that so I started started rhyming words I like seven and around twelve is when I start like trying to play piano and play instruments and I taught my soldiers and things like that Wow did you graduate high school yeah of course and then what did you do how did you make I'll just start professionally one I'm not a professional cuz I don't know what I'm doing I just do it I don't like the when you put the professional thing on it okay well I professional I mean when I make money from it yes who paid you first your first paycheck musically Kane what's the sickest [ __ ] ever can I curse yeah go ahead [ __ ] sick how did you do it was at the low in theory there's like 2010 there's me and my physicals five of us and they paid us 500 bucks to do like a 30-minute set it was a craziest show and we split that and we thought we were so on it wasn't a lot of money but like we were broken we thought we were so on and it was the sickest [ __ ] ever and that's just from us putting out music on the Internet like I set up a site gonna just throw stuff on it all the random artwork that I will make I will put on there all the dumb videos of us just being annoying we would just put out and um people gravitated to it and it was sick cuz like it was just us just being so how'd you get famous I guess just like I said just put it out on the internet and people just caught on and word-of-mouth and word-of-mouth and I think it's more because you know people could relate to that like you just [ __ ] around but we made music to and from the random artwork it was just our own style of thing so people gravitated to it and was also like wow they make cool music and damn they're funny too and wow this is how did you look hundred hook up with these guys um cool thing I didn't go to school with most of them um I met some of them at a skate park or like through mutual friends cuz um my original idea was a magazine which included everything I was into whether it was music art movies clothes colors a bike would like whatever and all my friendships that I have now is all connected through one of those webs so I'm friends with certain photographers that I like and people who do music and it turned into a collective and that's when we just start pleating things you're a Renaissance man I don't know if that okay the LA Weekly deemed Tyler the Creator sound garner 'old and hellish his music is not for the faint of heart is riddled with vulgar language at times extremely homophobic his sound is very gritty his voice is deep the tone of his songs oftentimes extremely dark that's all true no not at all I could play you some instrumentals I some of the prettiest [ __ ] you've probably ever heard in your life I probably curse a lot um I'm not homophobic at all you've influenced others right I probably influenced some people to do some stuff whether good or bad I don't take credit Ferrell said being a young black kid especially at that time I was different from all my other peers so when I've seen this dude saying that he was open to rock and jazz skateboarding and all this other stuff I was interested in I was gravitated toward cuz all I'm not the only black dude is probably called weird so you affected a lot of other people you realize that uh yeah it's affected you um Dave Chappelle Marshall Mathers Pharrell Williams Roy Ayers James pans Wes Anderson um a lot of the people around me my mother for sure I don't tell her much but she played a big part um you ever plan to expand you ever want to do things musically other than rap that's what I do that like um that's the thing I like I really want to sing but my my tone of voice is too deep to do what I want so now I'm just listening to like Isaac Hayes and Barry whiting things like that just to see how they use their voice but I hate rapping only because it puts you in this like in this box and like so I was scared for this interview because me being a rapper I was scared of the type of quest things that you were probably asking me not even on purpose just you know cuz I'm a rapper and things and then people look at you different oh he's a rap artist no but you just said it much time just said you you're on a rep anymore I don't I don't I just want to composure you got famous rapping yeah but you're leaving the world of rap but you've been successful in other areas yeah I mean you don't need wrestling and I'm talented enough to do other things but I don't know I'm pretty bored with it it's not interesting and I don't want to be like in the future I wanna like I want to do films I want people mention my name I'm next to Wes Anderson recording Tarantino I don't want to be I don't want my name to be mentioned Excel other rappers I got a tall coming up where does Tyler's creative drive come from we delve deeper into our guests mind after the break welcome back to Larry King now Tyler the Creator just did a selfie of me and him it's it's beautiful you're beautiful man yeah you're a great guy you've been termed absurdist do you think you're absurd nah not really just loud and honest has this city influence you artistically do you think growing up here uh I guess nothing to be like this city yeah dude I've been to a lot of places and I'm so grateful that I didn't grow up anywhere else but LA cuz everywhere else sucks to grow up in like it really does I mean New York is sick Miami school is some other places that would suck to grow up at you're glad you grew up here I'm very grateful did you ever meet your father uh I think I did at 12 supposedly but I don't really know that's what my mom said but are you gonna add in him that he desert the family nah dude I'm stoked I think if I had to die invited that I think if I had a dad I would have went the normal college route and like like a lot of other people you're not angry I'm so stoked my life paying doubt how it was I just decided to rap about it to seem like I'm sad would you like to be with him would you like to meet him um I mean one day I I don't really think any must know all about you yeah I don't really care like I'm fine not even being passive-aggressive right now I really don't care how important is your mother very embrace here every day almost we don't talk much but what do you mean you don't talk much like I'm always gone but she'd be putting a house together have you got a girlfriend no do you want girlfriends uh in the future get married have a king but not you're too young not yet not not to be settled down right now there's too many fish in ocean another rapper which I hate saying you are big shark and I can do a lot of fun stuff do you want to be famous uh do literally if I could you know if you want to be known everywhere walk down the street people go dialog could be rich as hell when no one knows who I am that is the [ __ ] you want the money but I get away with certain stuff like yelling at people they think it's funny you've been criticized for using offensive language in lyrics and songs it doesn't seem to bother you why do you use offensive language I mean [ __ ] yeah well you use that for effect in other words it's effective to say that what do you enjoy saying it or is it natural to you yeah it's just pretty natural I don't I don't really think twice on it I guess I don't know just words man it's the society object to it ah something like people who live in caves and like are pretty [ __ ] bored do you use the N word [ __ ] yes now that's an offensive word to some people to many people and how in what terms do you use it I don't know man see like you got to understand I grew up in a different time so where that word is just a word it has no effect but it is a double standard because there's certain people who will get offended if someone who doesn't have the skin tone of me says it like which is really weird you know like they are keeping the original meaning of that um a lot I don't know how to explain it um well if a white person said like if a white person says is it a derogatory like it's derogatory we because your skin is at the same color as mine but why when I say it's just weird that a lot of people still get you know upset upset with that and it's like I don't know I think you give certain words power are you saying it's just a word yet like if you choose is there any word gonna call me a [ __ ] and I would not give a [ __ ] it's any word that would bother you with the word boy bother you someone said hey boy not a wooden body no word would bother you so anybody could call you anything yeah I wouldn't care all right that's it's good for you you're not anti-gay or not no no I like again [ __ ] is just another word you could find anybody more so my age who uses that word just like that but it's a different time and everything and um I know that word is offensive to some people but I don't I'm not I know straight dudes who act like [ __ ] like you got like a piece of [ __ ] like it doesn't have anything to do with your sexual orientation nothing bothers through what bothers you um racism doesn't bother you bad words don't bother you what bothers you I hate uh I hate frogs and pretentious people at night I don't know I hate people who's not comfortable with themselves that scares me you hate phonies yeah I hate people who don't really like what they like what do you mean for um for exact like is it's a like people who don't really like you don't really like that you just like I've known people who've I only like stuff because either I like it or it's the cool thing they like or things like that and that's these people aren't comfortable with them singing to do like yeah like like they'll base their opinion off someone else's opinion because they don't want to be like the odd man out like that's what scares me man that that puts so much like dude you don't like that goddamn shirt why did you wear that cuz it's the tight thing right now you don't even look calm you think we'll ever have a gay rap artist maybe one day that would be but that's like why does that [ __ ] matter I don't like if he want to [ __ ] dudes or whatever why does that matter like why do we care I've been liking it so [ __ ] crazy right after the break Tyler sounds off on the biggest issue facing the Millennial Generation I'll find out what that is - right after this we're back for Tyler the Creator who likes my shirt that new is beautiful Thank You mana we complement it what do you like what are you on are you how deep into fashion are you uh what are you designed I like making [ __ ] and I like colors I don't really I like cool shirts and stuff and what what is the line Tyler was it called you're lying off wing then Golf is stupid thing but the four lettered golf looks sick oh and she like I'll bring you some stuff you like colors I can tell ya I love color looking right but you hate golf but you put golf as the theme word look sickle and stuff do you I don't know why like this hat is so sick to me is fashion more you're expressing the music or both dude that's a weird question cuz like I could everything I just make stuff so everything I do is an expression whether it's an angle that I got in a video or where did you learn visiting or something where'd you learn business I don't know business I just do who handles business yeah it was freaking amazing team with me that accounting say let me be the creative one and they focus on all the [ __ ] how do you deal with the suits you know the people who um whether three bucks assume they're idiots and I just make sure they like I like meeting people I want to talk to the head dude I want him to know who I am where I'm coming from like I I personally want to call let's let's speak you know just like a gut yeah like but it sucks like people are uh those dudes are so caught up in money and they're scared of anything out of the norm so they'll be quick to say like oh [ __ ] that like I get so much stuff I want to do but because of the things that's connected even stuff you ask me whether it be homophobic slurs or the fact that I want to yell or the fact that I'll rather do this or shoot it like this and not use the normal like they're scared so they're like they'll back away and it sucks cuz we'll never progress if we continue don't get the courage to just say [ __ ] and try something new where do you see yourself when you're 40 ah Rich's [ __ ] um a couple films under my belt a bunch of furniture a couple buildings skate parks around the world married yes with a one year old not a one year old at 40 I don't know I have a kid the whole deal of a son 23 you're like you're a baby you know I mean you're a kid kid you're young I guess I don't feel no I don't even know how old I feel Facebook Twitter Instagram you use them all don't use them the only thing on my phone is Instagram and I use that to either post stupid funny photos or photos and I sit in color just to look at pretty photos but I hate all of that [ __ ] to be honest you don't tweet I mean I do but that's either early in the morning or late at night when I wake up to let you know I have a show or whatever the hell is on my mind and then that's it I hate snapchat I hate all that [ __ ] you're set in the past stupid it's making kids so stewed you may connect her to me you said in the past that colleges are not what makes a young individual happy that you you preach individuality you didn't go to college you think you missed something but I don't having a high res not at all I mean I do think it would have been sick to do the way College looks and movies but I'm living a life that no one else really gets to live and it's not I'm not saying that going to college is bad but it's not for everyone and I remember my mom trying to push that [ __ ] on me and I just knew in my [ __ ] soul that that's not for me like I'm gonna find my own path like let me [ __ ] up and it turned into this and the way society is they tell you it's a certain way you have to be like when you're a certain inch you're like you're still acting like that like blah blah or like like what do you do like you need to go to school or you don't need to go to school or just things like that and I just want everyone to know that it's okay to say [ __ ] all that and follow their own path and just do whatever makes them happy cuz I know I know people who's in school only because their parents said so or um doing [ __ ] that they don't really want to do for for random reasons and it just [ __ ] sucks cuz I'm over here having a sick his life ever and that's because I chose to and I figured it out and I just want to be that like the [ __ ] that lets them know they can do politics interest you not at all you vote uh not I didn't I'm a horrible person you know hope none of you you didn't vote didn't feel proud that we have a black president uh I can give a [ __ ] less about his skin color I mean I guess it's really sick that um just based off where America was at one point that that dude worked his way up there but like I don't care man I'm [ __ ] making stuff did you see ever see any any racism toward you um I mean when I was younger like I was I was my friend here'll said this in a song but I was too white for the black kids and I was too black for the white kids so I kind of didn't really fit much into um into a you know a certain spot yeah things like that so yet no I'm done I wouldn't call it racism but you know or uh yeah like sometimes like in Beverly Hills are so like you know they just cuz I'm like a young black dude and I'm dressed like this and I'll probably skate his Chanel on my skateboard or whatever they're just like all this dudes window-shopping but then I go cop my mom a really expensive purse and then they want to cheat you different like oh crap he actually bought like they just think either I don't know if it's just based off how I look or whatever but you know things like that is he's getting robbed something but way to me he's got a crumb [ __ ] yeah brought this and he's buying more and oh crap did they look out the window and see like oh that's a nice vehicle oh crap like drive motorcycle not at all I'm not touching mo you would have a girlfriend not at all are you interested in girls of course I love freckles I love Jennifer Lawrence if you're watching this leave the [ __ ] you win next Tyler Lee creators Adult Swim comedy loiter squad is back for a third season I hope she's more on that in the game of if you only knew after this Jennifer if you're watching quality food back with our remaining moments with Tyler the Creator your show lawyer squad its third season on Adult Swim what is the premise of Lourdes quad I a couple friends who have stupid ideas and Adult Swim decided to let us put those onto their network like what or come I don't know we you just have to watch it I can't even if you consider yourself an actor I am NOT an actor I just give it go what should I take away from Lourdes how should I approach it should my 15 year old watch it probably I guess yeah sure it doesn't have an age requirement if you think is funny you're gonna think it's fun it's gonna happen in season three um I'm a rapper I'm a real rapper in season three oh you are so the change in a sweat I'm camp killing it [ __ ] I'm killing it [ __ ] do you make up rhymes in your head oh like all the time yeah I think 24 I'm thinking of other [ __ ] as I'm speaking to you right now you're thinking of something else while you're talking to me like what are you thinking about what do you think right now I'm know what color my sheets are gonna be for this new bed that I'm creating at the same time your tour has I'm talking should I be offended by that not at all that's just how my brain works and I'm very sorry actually I'm not sorry I can't help that no that's you why are you sorry nice we have some social media questions for you [ __ ] and lluvia Instagram have your third of you thought about turning loiter squad into a movie like jackass [ __ ] no why not it's minutes is already annoying enough why the [ __ ] would you want to watch us for an hour and 20 minutes breath so ste I'm concerned for that [ __ ] Bradley Seoul on Facebook what's the best piece of advice you ever received I think it was I think for real brothers I think it was him you just like do just [ __ ] go just just be good advice just be mellow me eight on Instagram any new developments on wolf the movie I can't answer that one it's a secret you'll see when you see it okay I've weasel touch on Twitter what is your spirit animal I have a bunch spirit animals I'm a squirrel I'm a whale I'm a goat and I'm a dragon well what does that mean I don't know but I know in my [ __ ] soul I'm a dragon a goat a whale in a swirl 33 online via Twitter who exactly is Felicia the goat um I did this commercial I did some commercials with Mountain Dew and that was the main character and I just ran with it a commercial product hired you to represent them yeah and they were sick and then uh someone that named Boyce Watkins decided to see that and saw some negative stuff and it decided to write an article then simple-minded people who can't think for themselves decided to all agree with it and then Mountain Dew didn't want any bad light on them so instead of backing me up or you know standing up for me knowing that it was no type of negative light they decided to back out and just let me be and be there alone which it worked out for the best I'm so grateful that that happen Steven bore up on Facebook who would you like to collaborate with musically in other ventures um Roy Ayers I want to meet Martin Scorsese and I'll think about it's not it's not courtroom North dancer Erik Carver all fuji fuji film i got some sick ideas the [ __ ] in the suits is probably scared but i got rekked sick stuff we played a little game if you only knew i throw out the questions you just said that's a sick alia song first girl you ever kissed this girl named Lauren uh kindergarten gar never forget what school gar gar yep first car um I think it's this a 92 my mom no my mom bought me this little Honda I have for a month when I was 19 and I [ __ ] it up the biggest misconception about you I'm evil I'm probably the most annoying and brightest person ever stranded on a desert island what three things you want with you I need my inhaler syrup and legit iPod I need music favorite city to perform in outside of this country outside of the country London is sick and Norway is sick but [ __ ] Australia love Melbourne love Sydney [ __ ] that's it that's the one most embarrassing moment you ever have an embarrassment I don't know I don't have any embarrassing moments but my friend Lionel does have this one photo of me that I do not want out it's nothing sucks but it's just a fucked-up photo and that's probably the only thing that favorite curse word [ __ ] proudest accomplishment I bought a house at 22 years old what was city far just say that far from here yet the drive here was not tight favorite movie Napoleon Dynamite least favorite thing about LA um the smog I have [ __ ] horrible asthma and that's what the inhaler you need yeah I got a tattooed on my leg being [ __ ] sick right well it got nice to highs on favorite food I love syrup so I guess like waffles and [ __ ] bacon is cool favorite cartoon character growing up um I love things from adventure time family I say that's a [ __ ] question family guys great amazing Seth if you're watching this I love you I want to meet you so bad he's good friend of mine great God we should hang out space travel or time travel time travel and I would Time Trial to a specific so would you go a [ __ ] Michael Jackson hair getting burned during that [ __ ] Pepsi commercial I want to see that firsthand yes higher your love your man a big thanks to my guest Tyler the Creator be sure to watch and tune in to Lourdes quad Thursdays at midnight on the Adult Swim Network yeah as always you can find me on twitter at yeah things we'll see you next time you

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Length: 27min 59sec (1679 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 04 2014