criticized the award show<\/a> for pigeonholing artists like him to \u201curban\u201d categories, calling it a \u201cjust a politically correct way to say the N-word.\u201d It\u2019s a nuanced point about the nature of such categorizations and the limiting impact that preconceived notions the Grammys can have. But it also rings a little hollow coming from the guy that defended using the word \u201cgay\u201d as an insult or went as far to say that white people should be able to say the n-word. <\/p>\n\n\n\nTyler, the Creator certainly has certainly come to grow musically and emotionally. Having an immense amount of pressure on him at a young age to maintain a specific image and capture the attention of the public could have encouraged some of his more flagrant behavior in the past. He’s always held an air of mystery about himself, though- it\u2019s a challenge to decipher whether he\u2019s joking or not, and that seems to be true to this day. He\u2019s become a fashion icon, a director, a designer, an organizer, and a respected musical artist. Whatever he does next, the world is sure to be watching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tyler, the Creator has gone through one of the biggest evolutions of any popular artist in the limelight right now. Recently awarded a Grammy for his album IGOR, the 28-year-old rapper has been releasing music for over a decade. How did he go from a controversial teenage rapper to an artist that won music\u2019s biggest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":5693,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[265,530,657],"tags":[890,663,889,680,887,576,129,662],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scadradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5666"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scadradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scadradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scadradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scadradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5666"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/scadradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5708,"href":"https:\/\/scadradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5666\/revisions\/5708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scadradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scadradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scadradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scadradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}