Tyler, The Creator shared Kanye West's Donda, J.J., on Sunday night (April 3). Call Me If You Get Lost won his second Grammy Award for claiming Best Rap, beating Cole's The Off-Season and Nas' King's Disease II. Album at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards.
The 31-year-old wasn't able to attend the awards ceremony in Las Vegas due to multi-hyphenate tour commitments, but she jumped on Instagram Live as she hiked to give an acceptance speech. After thanking those who helped bring the album to life, Tyler couldn't help but rub his latest achievement in DJ Khaled's face.
"First of all, I'm hypnotized," he began. "Thank you for the DJ drama, you're so important to rap music. Thank you to all my friends for being my cheerleaders. Thank you to my whole team, the whole squad... where I can make an album where I just spend all day I flex."
Tyler then referred to DJ Khaled's previous comments about his music, while humbly bragging about the success of his acclaimed Call Me If You Get Lost tour.
"And thank you [DJ Khalid]," he continued. "I know you're cringing and angry. 'Ugh, nobody listens to that album!' These arena tours that are sold out are different. And if you put that much energy into something, maybe everyone will be proud of you too."
.@tylerthecreator gave an accepatance speech via IG Live after “Call Me If You Get Lost” won Best Rap Album at the #Grammys pic.twitter.com/TGs28crhQF
— HipHopDX (@HipHopDX) April 4, 2022
In June 2019, DJ Khaled greatly reduced the music of Tyler, The Creator, when IGOR (which also won a Grammy for Best Rap Album) went on to claim the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200 on his own Father of Ashad album. sold to.
"I make albums so people can play it, and you can actually listen to it," he said in a later-deleted Instagram clip. "You know, driving your car, you hear another car playing. You know, go to the barbershop, you hear them play it. You know, turn on the radio and you hear them play it. Hear it happen.
"It's playing everywhere. It's called great music. It's called the album you actually listen to songs. No mysterious crap you've never heard."
I thought they were cappin bout DJ Khaled being salty his album not being #1 ... but the sodium level in this video is wild obvious pic.twitter.com/ECoo5dsD8d
— DJ Akademiks (@Akademiks) June 7, 2019
Tyler addressed the shots during an interview with Apple Music's Zane Lowe the following month, saying, "It's no disrespect to Khalid or anyone, but everybody in the industry in this N-GGA, everybody in that fucking album." There was someone. Cardi B. 21 Savage. Travis Scott. Post Malone. Beyoncé. Jay.
"Everyone who sells billions of records and the fact that I beat him with it that just doesn't parallel all the popping music, he was going crazy, bro."
When Call Me If You Get Lost earned his second #1 album on the Billboard 200 two years later, Tyler trolled DJ Khaled by tweeting, "Mysterious music! Ha!"
However, while addressing the topic on Hot 97 in August 2021, the former Odd Future frontman's tone changed as he described his satisfaction seeing Khalid's defeat.
"Brother, it was like the Khalid thing, it was fun, he was just watching a man die inside," he said. "Weird was winning, I was walking moonlight in a wig. This n-gga's album had everyone. Everybody. That n-gga was defying ego, he'd probably never accept [it]."