Tyler, The Creator Blasts Artists Making ‘Meme Records’ Looking for Quick Payday

Tyler, The Creator has an issue with artists he feels are diluting rap music by making records with hopes of a quick payday rather than appreciating the art form.

The Grammy-winning rapper sat down with media personality/businessman Maverick Carter for an episode of Mavericks, and a teaser released on Tuesday (Aug. 13) saw Tyler getting candid about the state of hip-hop.

“I don’t wanna seem like a hater. Sometimes I have hater energy ’cause I just think I’m that good,” he contested. “I love this art form so much bro and there’s so many n—-s out right now that aren’t musicians that are getting treated like musicians ’cause they make meme records.”

Tyler continued: “Publicly, they’ll be like, ‘I don’t give a f–k about music. I just do this s–t for money.’ It’s the Spider-Man meme of the next n—a when every publication is like, ‘Hell yeah, let’s put that out.’ You’re taking up space from n—-s like me.”

Look for the proper context surrounding the conversation when the full episode of Mavericks arrives at 1 p.m. ET on Wednesday (Aug. 14) on SpringHill’s YouTube channel.

Elsewhere in the episode, a description taken from the trailer hints at Tyler admitting he owes Eminem an apology.

Tyler and Em were at odds after Tyler dissed the Detroit legend’s Shady XV compilation album on Twitter in 2014. Eminem issued a flagrant response years later on Kamikaze‘s “Fall” in 2018. “Tyler create nothing, I see why you called yourself a f—-t, b—h,” he raps.

Em regretted taking it that far during an interview with Sway following the album’s arrival. “I think the word that I called him on that song was one of the things where I felt like this might be too far,” Slim Shady said. “Because in my quest to hurt him, I realize that I was hurting a lot of other people by saying it. It was one of the things that I kept going back to and going, ‘I don’t feel right with this.’”

Watch the clip above.