Tyler The Creator Pisses Off Churchgoers On 'When I Was 17'

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Pissing people off is nothing new for Tyler, the Creator. The Odd Future stand-out recalled his first live performance at a talent show when he appeared on MTV’s “When I Was 17” on Saturday.

"I was jumping around, pulled my pants down. During parts of the songs, I would go in the crowd and just wild out and go crazy," he said. "The guy who put it together, his mom and other family members were in the front. I didn't know that they were heavy church people."

The bit didn’t go over so well and Tyler was asked to leave half-way through his set. "We were talking about 666 onstage and stuff," Tyler said. "And then they just cut the music and were like, 'Hey, get the f--- out of here."

Luckily that didn’t stop the Wolf Gang member’s stride. He went on to release notable mixtapes, both as a soloist and as the head of the OFWGKTA collective, then dropped his album Goblin earlier this year. Off the back of his breakthrough video “Yonkers,” the foul-mouth Cali spitter earned him self two nominations at the 2011 VMAs—one for Video of the Year and the other for Best New Artist.

"The Best New Artist thing, that's cool," Tyler told MTV News. "Wiz [Khalifa] is a really good dude and I've been a fan of his music, so if he wins I'll be pretty excited. I wanna win that for sure, but Wiz is awesome, I've been listening to him since '08," he said. "Even Kreayshawn, she's cool. So if she wins that too, I'll be pretty stoked. But you know, I wanna win, I'm just gonna keep it 100."

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