Tyler, The Creator Explains Why He Is Not All That Excited For Winning The Grammy Award

Tyler, The Creator Explains Why He Is Not All That Excited For Winning The Grammy Award. Award winning rapper Tyler, The Creator is one of a number of artists who walked away with the golden trophy at The Grammys.

The award ceremony took place this past weekend, winners all expressed great happiness on their wins except Tyler who said he was only half happy.

“I’m half and half on it,” Tyler began. “Um on one side, I’m grateful that what I can make can just be acknowledged in a world like this but also it sucks that, whenever we, and I mean guys that look like me, do anything that’s genre-bending or that’s anything, they always put it in a rap or urban category, which is … and I don’t like that ‘urban’ word. It’s just the politically correct way to say the N-Word to me. So when I hear that I’m just like ‘Why can’t we just be in pop?’”

Tyler continued, “So I felt like half of me feels like the rap nomination was a backhanded compliment. Like ‘Oh my little cousin wants to play the game. Let’s give him the unplugged controller so he can shut up and feel good about it.’ That’s what it felt like a bit.

“But another half of me is very grateful that the art that I made can be acknowledged on a level like this when I don’t do the radio stuff. I’m not playing in Target. I’m in a whole different world than what a lot of people here listen to so I’m grateful and like ehh.”