Whether hollering helplessly or pleading needlessly, Tyler has never sounded so vulnerable. Tyler does use homophobic slurs in his raps but his feelings towards his gay fans. His presentation of “Igor” opened with the densely morose bass-synth line of “Igor’s Theme” and segued into the sweetly sinister likes of “I Think” and “A Boy Is a Gun.” Igor is a tale of bad romance, a narrative about falling in and out of love and saving one’s soul in the process. I've been a fan of Tyler since the early Odd Future cockroach eating days. Tyler was magnetic, high kicking, spinning and twirling alone on stage before shifting backdrops of asymmetrical fringe and glittering tinsel and fire. Will Smiths son Jaden Smith has been dancing around issues of his sexuality for years.
Appearing beneath the starry night sky with a white-gold page boy wig atop his head, black sunglasses on his expressive face and an iridescent blue suit hugging his body, Tyler looked like a cross between Andy Warhol and Geoffrey Holder. Tyler has become one of hip-hop’s most distinctive performers. Last Wednesday, on the Mann Center’s Skyline Stage, Jaden opened for Tyler’s sold-out show in support of his fifth studio album, “Igor,” offering a double dose of love-obsessed hip-hop. Tyler and Jaden join the sparse ranks of queer Black hip-hop icons - including iLoveMakonnen, Frank Ocean, Brockhampton’s Kevin Abstract and Lil Nas X - who declare their identities loudly and proudly. Jaden Smith - the experimental pop-hop rapper and singer, son of Overbrook’s Will Smith - has told the world that Tyler, the Creator is his boyfriend. However, later on, he said it was just a figure of speech. The singer stated this in an interview when he was asked about his sexual orientation in August 2017.
Innovative and provocative rapper Tyler, the Creator has been “coming out” as gay or bisexual since his 2017 album, “Scum Fuck Flower Boy,” with the track “I Ain’t Got Time!” and the line “I’ve been kissing white boys since 2004.” Tyler the Creator’s sexual orientation once again came into question after he revealed in an interview that he had been dating a boy since the age of 15.