Not everyone cares about making it onto the radio in 2018, but Tyler, The Creator does. He discovered some of his favorite music like Sade’s “Maureen,” Maxwell’s Urban Hang Suite and N.E.R.D’s “Tape You” that way, so he wants others to experience the same with him. The problem is, he doesn’t like his voice and he thinks that his tone is getting in the way. In a new interview with GQ, he explains his theory.
“I hate my voice and I think—it’s not a full thought or theory yet—but I think there are certain voices that can make it into a mainstream world because of the tone that they’re in,” he said. “People like Jay, ‘Ye, Drake, you know, Kenny. It’s a world that their voice lives in. It’s not too high and squeaky, and it’s not too low and bassy, it’s not too abrasive and raspy. It sits in this space that’s easy listening for humans. And I’m still trying to figure out the science behind it. When I do, I’ll let you know, but I definitely don’t have that voice. And I fucking wish that I did. Stevie Wonder has it, too. It’s a tone that I’m tryna pinpoint. Like, Lloyd Banks was the hardest rapper from G-Unit to me. And you know, he probably didn’t have the same charisma and blah, blah, blah.”
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