On Monday, Tyler, the Creator shared an especially angry new track, "F*ck It," that, in part, addresses his controversial immigration status in Australia. In August, Tyler cancelled the Australian leg of his Cherry Bomb tour following a lobbying campaign from Australian activist group Collective Shout that protested his past lyrics, which the group deemed violently misogynistic. A spokeswoman for Collective Shout has since responded to "F*ck It," and she describes the song as a "tantrum."
On the new song, Tyler accused Australia of being hypocritical and, thus, racist for allowing Eminem to perform in the country without any outrage, as he, like Tyler, has had past song lyrics that portray women in similarly violent and offensive contexts.
"Tell Australia I'm sneaking in with a mic in my damn hand / Instead of the vegetables that I packed in my backpack / When Marshall had this problem what the f*ck was they telling him?/ Is it cause of status or his melanin lacks black?" he rapped.
He also asked, "How can I be misogynistic, like t*ties and ass / How can I be homophobic when my boyfriend's a f*g?" addressing two particular character deficiencies of which he's been accused of because of his music.
Upon hearing "F*ck It," Caitlin Roper, Campaigns Manager at Collective Shout, has responded by saying, "He's essentially had a tantrum to music."
"While he may have been a young man when he wrote music describing raping women, mutilating their bodies, locking them in his basement and raping their corpses, he's not a child anymore, and he is yet to grow up and take responsibility for what he has put out into the world," Roper told AAP.
The last time Tyler was in Australia, in June, Tyler berated a particular member of Collective Shout, Talithia Stone, using misogynistic invective during a concert in Sydney.
At the end of July, Tyler announced that he had been banned from Australia, and he placed blame upon the lobbying efforts of Collective Shout. Soon after, the Australian Department of Immigration and Border Protection revealed that Tyler's visa had not yet been denied and was, instead, still being assessed.
Regardless, Tyler soon cancelled the upcoming Australian leg of his Cherry Bomb tour and expressed his aversion to performing in Australia with such controversy surrounding his name.
The lyrics of "F*ck It" would imply that, at the moment, Tyler is banned from, or at least would have trouble getting into, Australia, though no official confirmation on his immigration status has been provided. He is, however, currently banned for 3 to 5 years from entering the United Kingdom. His U.K. ban was announced shortly after he had cancelled his Australian tour.
Though he didn't address Collective Shout explicitly on "F*ck You," the group was likely among his targets. Tyler's tirade against Stone this past summer is the most damning evidence against him, but, going off his latest song, Tyler believes that Collective Shout as well as the politicians the group has influenced have a selective vision in what they consider to be offensive art and that their scrutiny of his past lyrics likely has to do with him being a young, black hip-hop artist.
