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Tyler, the Creator may have come out on new album

the rapper has mentioned being gay for years

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Tyler, the Creator might have come out as gay or bisexual on his latest album, “Scum Fu*k Flower Boy.”

The album was meant to be released in two weeks but was leaked, to the delight of fans, on Sunday night. But some lyricsĀ raised a few eyebrows and had some people wondering if the rapper was coming out the closet.

ā€œNext line will have ā€™em like ā€˜Whoaā€™ / I been kissing white boys since 2004,ā€the 26-year-old raps on the track, “I Ain’t Got Time!”

On the song, “Garden Shed,” Tyler, the Creator talks about hiding in a garden shed, aĀ metaphor some think refers to being in the closet.

“All my friends lost / They couldn’t read the signs / I didn’t wanna talk and tell ’em my location / And they ain’t wanna walk / Truth is, since a youth kid, thought it was a phase / Thought it’d be like the Frank; poof, gone / But, it’s still goin’ on,” he raps. The mention of “Frank” has led to speculation that he is referring to his friend and fellow collaborator, Frank Ocean, who identifies as bisexual.

Tyler, the Creator has alluded to being gay or bisexual in the past. In 2015, he even tweeted that he had attempted to come out of the closet but the seriousness of the tweet was never confirmed.

Rolling Stone’s 2015 piece on Tyler, the Creator also wondered if his persistent gay jokes was actually a confirmation of his sexuality.

ā€œFor the past two days Iā€™ve wondered, is Tyler actually gay? I cannot emphasize how much gay humor plays a role in the atmosphere around him. Itā€™s like a continuous loop of the ‘You know how I know youā€™re gay?’Ā scene in ‘The 40-Year-Old Virgin’,ā€ the article reads. ā€œNever more than a few minutes pass without him saying heā€™s going to suck someoneā€™s dick or him accusing someone of wanting to suck dick. At one point on the bus, he recalls sending nude photos to a group chat with his friends and no one responded. ‘My friends are so used to me being gay,’ Tyler says, ‘they donā€™t even care.’ I finally ask, Why all the gay humor? ‘Because Iā€™m gay as fuck,’ he says, without a flinch. Seriously, are you gay? Are these repressed feelings? ‘No, but I am in love with ā€™96 Leonardo DiCaprio,’ he says. ‘I one hundred percent would go gay for ā€™96 Leo. Oh, and Cole Sprouse.’ā€

Tyler, the Creator followed up his proclaimed love for ’96 DiCaprio by tweeting a photo of the star captioned, “so beautiful my god.”

At one point, he was rumored to be dating Kendall Jenner who jokingly tweeted him “apparently we’re dating.” He responded, “Not possible, we’re both gay.”

His debut album “Goblin” received attention for its frequent use of homophobic slurs, with the rapper using the word “fag**t” more than 200 times.

The internet has been abuzz with speculation with some fans saying theyĀ believed all along that the rapper was not straight.

Tyler, the Creator has yet to confirm or deny the speculation.

 

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