Tyler the Creator had to Cancel His First UK Show because of Rowdy Fans + Complex Magazine Interview

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Tyler the Creator was just in London for his first show after being banned from the U.K. since 2015. He wasn’t allowed to enter because Prime Minister Theresa May felt his lyrics encouraged violence against gays. This is interesting because we’ve seen him pull his d*** out in front of his male friends and Will Smith’s son Jaden Smith even said he was his boyfriend, but whatever. Come to think of it, we wonder if that had something to do with him getting back into the country. Publicity stunt, maybe? Anyway, since he hasn’t been in the country in forever, his fans were quite enthused about seeing him, to put it nicely. They were charging the gate to be let in to see him, while others were climbing on top of cars while people were inside of them to see. That’s when police came and shut it down for getting out of hand. Shortly after it was scheduled to begin, he tweeted, “cops cancelled it.” The Metropolitan Police said the venue called it off because of “overcrowding issues”.

Meanwhile, he just released his fifth album, IGOR this week. It was available just 10 days after he made the announcement of having a new album. His reasoning behind this is because he says he hates people who hype things up for months and months on end. Can’t say we blame him because the media overload some people get can be quite annoying, especially when it seems to never materialize into anything… ie., Lil Kim. We understand she’s had legal issues over the years, still love her, but you all get the point. The problem is, especially the bigger an artist is, is that there are expectations. It’s needed. But it’s definitely understandable.

“I hate people who hype shit for months in,” he said. “I think now people feel obligated to always let everyone know what the fuck they’re doing, and I hate that. People don’t even have privacy. Everyone got to always like, ‘Oh, this what I’m working on, this is who’s on the album, this is the track list, this is coming out in eight months.’ Just shut the fuck up and put it out when it’s ready. People talk too much.”

This was done during an interview with Complex Magazine where he also spoke about his evolution and growth as an artist over the years. “A lot of people were like, ‘Oh, the early stuff sounds so different from the new stuff,’ but I think it’s just balance,” he explained. “If it was like a breakfast platter with bacon and pancakes and eggs, and at first the plate I was giving people had a lot of eggs, but now this time it doesn’t have much, and it’s more pancakes and bacon or whatever. I think it’s a through line through stuff from Bastard up until Igor.”

He continued: “[IGOR is] all focused and cohesive, because it’s coming from one mind, and it’s a time in the way I’m approaching stuff. Now some may say number nine don’t sound like five, but that’s because they look surface-level at what’s the through line and thread and aren’t looking at it from a different angle. But it was all pretty much easy to really just move forward everything.”

He also has a livestream show set up of him performing his entire album next Wednesday for Apple Music. “We rented a warehouse, we set some shit up,” he said about the upcoming performance. “I’m a perform for 43 god damn minutes, do some songs, they going to film this shit, but the fans going to like it because they going to be there, and we going to call it a god damn day.”