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Tyler, The Creator Has Had It With ‘Weirdo’ Fans Invading Celebrities’ Privacy: They ‘Don’t Know Personal Boundaries’

Tyler, The Creator expressed his frustration with fans who dig a little too deep into celebrities' lives.

“Because you like a song, or because you like a movie, that gives you permission to be a fuckin’ weirdo?” He offered a stern warning for fans whose “hobby is being weird stalker niggas” of entertainers: “Bro you will get shot.” He fights back against the “you signed up for this” adage often levied against entertainers, noting that innovations such as phone cameras and home address databases have offered fans access that didn’t exist when he started making music in 2009. He told Carter that he wrote his first bars at seven years old to the first half of Black Eyed Peas’ “Positivity” (calling Will.I.Am a “genius”), says he feels like his songwriting has grown symbiotically with his musicality, and admitted that watching Painkillers gave him a new perspective on Eminem’s Recovery album, which he had previously dissed.

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