The long-simmering beef betweenTyler, the CreatorandEminemis letting off a little steam.
But Tyler wasn’t impressed.
He probably felt like I was attacking him," he said.
Tyler the Creator and Eminem.Araya Doheny/Getty; Kurt Krieger/Corbis via Getty
What Tyler intended as mere, if blunt, aesthetic criticism now seems an undeservedly personal attack.
He continued, “I thought I was just like, ‘I don’t like the music.’
He was in a different part of his life and probably felt like I was attacking him.”
“I love Eminem.
That dude taught me how to rap.
I thought their movement was really cool.
I just felt like there was a mutual respect….
The wider damage done from employing anti-LGBTQ epithet to hurt Tyler wasn’t lost on Eminem, either.
When Tyler was asked “What was it like to be called that?”
Because I knew what the intent was.
He felt pressured because people got offended for me.
Dont get offended for me.
We were playingGrand Theft Autowhen we heard that.
We rewound it and were like: Oh.'…
“After watching that show, that gave me perspective,” Tyler told Carter.
For Tyler’s part, he’s open to full reconciliation: “I felt terrible.
If I ever see him, I want to tell him that in person.
