Posthumous releases became a new normal in the music industry, but Tyler, The Creator took a firm stance against them. The hip-hop star said he doesn’t want any of his unreleased music to see the light of day after his death because it wasn’t meant to be heard by a wider audience.
Tyler, The Creator shared his feelings about posthumous albums during a recent intimate show in Los Angeles before playing the unreleased song “Penny”. He explained he’d rather share his unreleased music now than have it released posthumously when he has no control over it.
“Some of these are so good I can’t just let them sit on my hard drive. Because I have in my will that if I die, they can’t put no fucking [posthumous] album out,” he explained.
Tyler, The Creator also called posthumous albums “gross” because they consist of half-baked ideas and random features with artists that he most likely wasn’t even on good terms with.
The Grammy-winning rapper isn’t the first artist to speak against posthumous releases of his music. Anderson .Paak famously got the tattoo that reads, “When I’m gone, please don’t release any posthumous albums or songs with my name attached. Those were just demos and never intended to be heard by the public” in 2021, and Lana Del Rey echoed his sentiment a few days later on Instagram.
