Tyler, The Creator has shared the changes he’d make if he were president, and said that he would take aim at podcasts.
The discussion came during a new interview with Billboard, which Tyler took part in with Rembert Browne. At one part of the conversation, the two set their sights on modern entertainment and the rise of podcasts.
It seems the artist has a less-than-fond outlook on the ever-expanding number of podcasts, as he said that if he were to be put in a position of power, it is the first thing he’d want to crack down on.
“If I was president, the first thing I would do is take podcast mics away from n*****,” he explained.
This isn’t the first time that the ‘See You Again’ singer has spoken out about modern forms of interviewing. Last November, he also spoke to “The Human Serviette” Nardwuar at his Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival and explained how he wants to see “gossiping”-style approach to interviews start to die out.
“Music is my favourite thing and I could talk about it all day,” he said. “But we’re at a point where a musician who you know for music is being interviewed on a platform about music, talking in detail about music — his passion and what he’s known for — and people are like, ‘Why does he keep doing that?’”
“But, you know, if I was on here gossiping or talking about so and so, who got beef, then people will feed into it. And it’s like, ‘No, we need to get back to talking about music.’”
It was during that discussion with Nardwuar that Tyler also threw shade at some channels in particular – including Hot Ones and Sneaker Shopping.
“We need to stop fucking going sneaker shopping or fucking deep-throating hot wings for an hour. Talk about your album. Talk about music. Talk about the 15 songs that you guys have spent time to get mixed and mastered and put your heart into and produced and did all these things,” he said.
“And then when the album comes out and it sells two copies, everyone’s confused. But it’s like, they don’t want to talk about the music or the album; they’d rather fucking go eat chicken wings and sneaker shopping.”
He would later go on to share another statement after the interview, and issue an apology to host Sean Evans. “It comes off as having disdain towards the show which I don’t, but really it was to be used as a broader example that popped in my head while trying to make the point,” he wrote.
“I could’ve said one of the podcast/outlets that really pushes the more negative stuff but, in the moment, I didn’t. So Sean you didn’t really deserve the energy that comes off, wasn’t my intention at all although ‘deep-throating chicken’ sounds hilarious to me.”
Tyler, The Creator shared his latest album ‘Chropmakopia’ in late October, and it was given a three-star review by NME.
“Within the chaos [of the album], there’s beauty — the sensitivity of ‘Hey Jane’, the infectious hip-hop bite of ‘Thought I Was Dead’, the rising cacophonies of brass and percussion on ‘I Killed You’. But perhaps a less frantic approach would’ve benefited the listen overall,” it read.
