Jaden Smith (Instagram/@c.syresmith); Tyler, the Creator (Instagram/@feliciathegoat)
Jaden Smith is currently making the rounds on social media for claiming that rapper Tyler the Creator is his boyfriend.
Smith made the admission at Tyler’s sixth annual Camp Flog Gnaw festival held in Los Angeles, California, United States on Sunday, Nov. 11. A Twitter user going by the handle @NickiGoat caught Smith’s confession on video.
“I wanna tell you, Tyler doesn’t wanna say but Tyler’s my motherf*cking boyfriend,” the 20-year-old told the crowd during the concert. “And he’s been my motherf*cking boyfriend my whole motherf*cking life!”
Moments later, the camera pans to the screen showing Tyler — seen wearing a face mask — laughing at what Smith said and gave him the middle finger.
The now-viral video has garnered 10,800 retweets and almost 39,600 likes, as of writing.
https://twitter.com/NickiGOAT/status/1061924567281795077
Smith then took to Twitter after his confession: “Yup @tylerthecreator I [t]old [e]veryone [y]ou [c]an’t [d]eny [i]t [n]ow.
https://twitter.com/officialjaden/status/1061916953101524992
Tyler then replied to Smith’s tweet, calling him a “crazy n*gga man.”
hahaha you a crazy nigga man
— T (@tylerthecreator) November 12, 2018
In a radio guesting last August 2017, Tyler admitted that he had a boyfriend at 15 years old. He added that he was “open-minded,” despite being criticized before for being homophobic.
“Open-minded now? I had a boyfriend when I was 15 in f*cking Hawthorne, n*gga,” he said during a Know Wave radio show interview. “If that’s not open-minded, then I don’t know what the f*ck is.” He later took back his statement via Twitter on August 2017, clarifying that he was using a “figure of speech.”
Meanwhile, Smith told British GQ Magazine about crossing the gender divide with his choice of clothing: “I don’t see man clothes and woman clothes, I just see scared people and comfortable people.”
Both Smith and Tyler have yet to issue further statements, as of writing. Katrina Hallare/JB
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