Like, I wrote Blow when I was reading about different people in American history. It’s based on things I made when I was super-young, when no one was listening. I’m bummed out because it’s like, dude, I’m not homophobic. Now I’m getting treated like a terrorist. Everyone is a follower, just following what other countries are doing. Then me reading, it was like, yo? What the hell?
ANSWER TYLER THE CREATOR MOVIE
In London, we rented out a movie theatre and watched Napoleon Dynamite, then we played a show and had a little pop-up shop. I just did Amsterdam, and we showed Moonrise Kingdom. I did something really awesome, and it was no problem.Īll year, I’ve been renting out movie theatres around the world to show my favourite movies. I’m just like, one, none of that is true, and two, I was here seven weeks ago. Thirty minutes later, the guy comes in, he gives me a paper, and he says: “OK, they’re not letting you in the country.” The paper said I couldn’t come at all, saying that I support homophobia and acts of terrorism, and some other stuff. And then showed me lyrics from songs … literally, a paper with five lines of lyrics, and four were from Bastard songs and one was from Tron Cat. I was in a detention room I felt like a criminal. Monday was one of the shittiest days I’ve ever had. Now, Tyler, the Creator has agreed to speak about being banned from UK entry. The letter goes on to state: “Your albums Bastard, in 2009, and Goblin, in 2011, are based on the premise of your adopting a mentally unstable alter ego who describes violent physical abuse, rape and murder in graphic terms which appears to glamourise this behaviour.” “The home secretary has reached this decision because you have brought yourself within the scope of the list of unacceptable behaviour by making statements that may foster hatred, which might lead to intercommunity violence in the UK.” “The home secretary has considered whether, in light of this list, you should be excluded from the UK on the grounds that your presence here would not be conducive to the public good,” the letter to the performer stated. However, government papers given to Tyler specifically cite lyrics from VCR, Blow, Sarah, Tron Cat and French, and explain that he was rejected under the terms of Home Office policy on “behaviours unacceptable in the UK” – a set of guidelines drawn up in 2005 to try to prevent suspected terrorists entering Britain. That is why the shows were cancelled.” Although the Home Office would not comment on the specific case, it issued a statement saying: “Coming to the UK is a privilege, and we expect those who come here to respect our shared values.” On 26 August, after being turned away at the UK border, Tyler tweeted: “Based on lyrics from 2009, I am not allowed in the UK for 3-5 years (although I was there 8 weeks ago).
“We would much rather come to Australia when it isn’t surrounded in controversy,” he tweeted. Collective Shout’s campaign appeared to slow down the approval of his visa to enter Australia, and led to Tyler curtailing a planned tour there in September. In 2014, he was banned from visiting New Zealand for posing “a threat to the public order and the public interest”, and earlier this year he was the subject of a campaign by Australian feminist group Collective Shout, who cited lyrics from his mixtape Bastard and his song Tron Cat, from his debut album Goblin, in their efforts to bar him from the country.
It wasn’t the first time the rapper has had problems entering a country. L ast week, while attempting to enter the UK for a string of festival performances, including in Reading and Leeds, Tyler, the Creator was turned away at the border and told he had been banned by the home secretary, Theresa May, from entering Britain for the next three to five years.
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