Tyler, the Creator dropped his hit song “911” in 2017 with the line: “Sucks you can’t gas me up, shout out to Elon Musk.” However, while performing this weekend at the Austin City Limits music festival nearby Tesla’s Texas headquarters, the Grammy-winning artist changed the latter half of the lyric to: “man, f**k Elon.”
It isn’t clear why Tyler changed his tune on Tesla’s CEO (and right before the company’s robotaxi event). But polling data shows that Tesla owners of both major political parties unfavorably view Musk’s evolution from prodigious tech CEO to conservative culture warrior. (Musk reportedly plans to campaign further for U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump after an animated campaign appearance earlier this week.)
Tyler, the Creator has also been critical of generative AI, which Musk is actively building with x.AI and Grok. In an interview earlier this year, Tyler said AI “will never catch up to me creatively.” That’s a stark contrast to Elon, who said this summer at Cannes Lions that AI will only enhance human creativity.