An activist who previously campaigned to have Tyler, The Creator banned from Australia hopes the musician will use his platform for positive change.
The 28-year-old, real name Tyler Okonma, is an alternative hip-hop star whose widely praised 2019 album IGORBut for Coralie Alison, the announcement just represents an opportunity for the musician to right past wrongs.
"I still receive abuse from his fans four-and-a-half years on," Ms Alison, director of the women's rights group Collective Shout, told the ABC. In 2015, the singer told his millions of Twitter followers that he had been"banned" from Australia following a campaign by Collective Shout. They had argued he should be refused a visa on character grounds because of lyrics on his early records depicting the rape and murder of women. The Federal Government did not actually ban him — his tour was cancelled — but Okonma's tweet tagged Ms Alison.She said she was subsequently inundated with"hundreds" of rape and death threats from the rapper's fans, something the singer never acknowledged or condemned. "I had to go to the police about it and there were fans trying to track down where I lived, threatening my relatives and family members," she said.Tyler shouts out former UK PM over ban Ms Alison would like to see Okonma, who is one of the headliners of July's festival at the North Byron Parklands, address that abuse and his past lyrical content when he takes the stage for his only Australian show. She wants him to use his platform to express a positive message to his fans in Australia"where violence against women is at epidemic rates". "If Tyler, The Creator is still profiting off the harmful misogyny he released in the early days then he is complicit in advocating the messages those songs portray," she said.
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