No, Tyler, The Creator doesn’t want to listen to your new podcast, bro.
The rapper and producer sat down with The Cut to talk about his latest Converse collab and was asked if there are any podcasts that he listens to, given his public disdain for them.
“I think we give a lot of people who aren’t smart and just want attention platforms to be loud and incorrect, and other stupid people follow them,” he said before asking whatever happened to being good at a trade. “Where are the people with skills? We need electricians, we need more drummers, painters, teachers. Everybody with a mic is crazy. I just think that sh– is gross.”
However, he did make sure to bring up a couple of pods that have been able to grab his attention. Deante Kyle (Grits & Eggs Podcast) is sick, and The Cutting Room Floor is sick. Those are two podcasts that are in the right direction.”
If you recall, Tyler has been anti-podcast for at least a year. Back in December, in his Billboard cover interview, he said podcasts would be on the chopping block first if he ever took office. “If I was president,” he said, “The first thing I would do is take podcast mics away from n—as.”
Elsewhere in the interview, he was also asked about gatekeeping, and of course, he had some interesting things to say. “Love gatekeeping,” he told the outlet. “Everything is not for everyone, and that’s OK. People have to stop wanting to be invited into everything; it’s OK to not be into something, bro. It’s cool, it’s chill.”
And while he did admit that gatekeeping music “is a little weird,” he’s pro-gatekeeping places to eat and fashion. “Gatekeeping music is a little weird, but when it comes to companies, restaurants, and clothing — like certain restaurants that some people really love can get f—ed up because someone makes a TikTok and now everything is sold out. This small thing they loved and enjoyed is no longer available for them to enjoy because everyone wants in on this new thing to feel like they’re part of something. That’s when I’m like, no, f— that, gatekeep your restaurant.”
He added: “When people are like, Where’d you get that from? We good. ID on Tyler’s so and so? No, we good. Let me have my thing; you might not look that fire in it.”
