Of its Website, Titelmedia strives to ensure that its Website services and content are accessible Titelmedia (Highsnobiety), is committed to facilitating and improving the accessibility and usability Tyler's entire fanbase and persona are built from a place of wilful misunderstanding of the queer community, and attempting to bridge such opposing viewpoints is a commendably brave endeavor. This is no small feat any celebrity going public with such a decision is an enormous undertaking, but the consequences of this choice in the world of hip-hop are increased tenfold. But for his sake, we must take this confessional as it stands.Īs it stands, we now have a leading figure in pop culture questioning his heterosexuality in a community that has made it infamously difficult (nigh, impossible) to do so while retaining any amount of respect and credibility. There is a very real chance that this could all be some ploy or gimmick with an aftertaste of severe queer-baiting, which if so, would render Tyler's levels of good taste and human decency at an all-time low. The crux of this argument stems from the song "Garden Shed," which contains such choice nuggets as "Garden shed for the garcons / Them feelings I was guarding" in addition to a nod to Frank Ocean, his fellow OFWGKTA comrade who went through a very similar public coming-out.Īnd now we have arrived at our current position, one where a suggestively-titled album called Flower Boy implies an honest, open admission of a sexuality heretofore treated as a joke in his artistic oeuvre. And to their credit, Tyler's latest lyrical offerings do indeed seem to point toward an acknowledgement of his sexual preferences that would have been veiled behind the layers of a cynical facade in his previous work. It appears, at least in the court of virtual public opinion, that Scum Fuck Flower Boy (also known simply as Flower Boy) is far more than the Odd Future ringleader’s fifth full-length it is also Tyler’s coming-out, set to music.Įxhaustive analyses have already begun spooling out on Genius and in the bowels of Reddit's hip-hop forums parsing out every individual lyric in support of this thesis. The prospect of Tyler, The Creator’s just-announced new album leaking a couple of weeks ahead of schedule was exciting enough for the precocious rapper’s die-hard fanbase, but with said leak came news that is nothing short of earth-shattering.