Tyler, the Creator dropped his hit track “911” in 2017 with the road: “Sucks you may’t fuel me up, shout out to Elon Musk.” Nevertheless, whereas performing this weekend on the Austin Metropolis Limits music competition close by Tesla’s Texas headquarters, the Grammy-winning artist modified the latter half of the lyric to: “man, f**okay Elon.”
It isn’t clear why Tyler modified his tune on Tesla’s CEO (and proper earlier than the corporate’s robotaxi occasion). However polling knowledge exhibits that Tesla homeowners of each main political events unfavorably view Musk’s evolution from prodigious tech CEO to conservative tradition warrior. (Musk reportedly plans to marketing campaign additional for U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump after an animated marketing campaign look earlier this week.)
Tyler, the Creator has additionally been crucial of generative AI, which Musk is actively constructing with x.AI and Grok. In an interview earlier this yr, Tyler stated AI “won’t ever catch as much as me creatively.” That’s a stark distinction to Elon, who stated this summer season at Cannes Lions that AI will solely improve human creativity.