Tyler The Creator Jimmy Kimmel Live
And interview that begins with "Alright, so I had three MySpaces, right?" is bound to turn out excellent. Tyler The Creator stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live, Thursday night, not to preform, but to have a sit-down discussion of his recent career moves, past pranks and old jobs. Fresh off the success of his Cherry Bomb LP and the rising influence of his Golf Media mobile app, Tyler had ample reason to join the show as a proper interviewee--and her certainly made the most of it.
Tyler expounds on how he had three different pages on the early aughts-era social network, one of which included a few of his drawings and a couple homemade beats. He gave that page the name "Tyler, The Creator." "That page got more popular, and then I just ran with it. I did not plan this out at all," Tyler told Kimmel.
Later in the interview, we learn that Tyler The Creator (you may remember him from MySpace, now) worked at both FedEx and Starbucks as a young man, and at the latter spot he often helped himself to cheese danishes from the bakery case. But perhaps the Odd Futurian got caught with frosting on his hands? "This lady named Cindy, she was a new manager, she hated on me. And she fired me, and I hope she's watching because I still hate her," Tyler smirked. Later, Kimmel commended Tyler on the Golf Media app, which he admitted was his fill-in for his real dream: having his own TV network. Watch both the Starbucks and app segments below.
