ICYMI: After giving an interview in which he called his stage name “dumb,” the rapper set the record straight about rumors he’s changing his moniker.
Fast Companyin which the rapper spoke about the MySpace origin story of his stage name. During the interview, Tyler called his stage name “dumb,” and spoke about the aesthetics of using his birth name for creative projects. “My full name, Tyler Okonma, in all caps just looks really cool,” he said. “So you might see more of that. I don’t know. I’m getting older and I think when people get older they start to realize s–t, you just start changing.
When a fan asked Tyler for context surrounding his tweets, the rapper responded, filling him in on what he was seeing. “INTERVIEWER ASKED ABOUT MY STAGE NAME, I EXPLAINED HOW I GOT IT, I JOKED ABOUT IT BEING DUMB BUT KEPT IT,” he wrote. “TALKED ABOUT MY AFRICAN LAST NAME HOW I WANT TO EMBRACE IT NOW THAT IM OLDER AND HAVE A NEW VIEW ON IT. SITES SAYS IM CHANGING IT. FALSE.”
Before eventually deleting his tweets, Tyler noted that he wasn’t actually angry about the confusion, despite the all-caps text. “ALL CAPS MAKES YOU THINK THE PERSON IS MAD OR SOMETHING HA, WILD IT GIVES OFF THAT EMOTION JUST BEING UPPERCASE.”
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