Mike Dean has taken issue with a lyric on Tyler, The Creatorā€˜s new album Chromakopia that he has accused of being ā€œracist.ā€

Prior to the projectā€™s release on Monday (October 28), Tyler shared a snippet of the song ā€œThought I Was Deadā€ which contains the line: ā€œWhite boys mocking this shit and yā€™all mad at me? Yā€™all can suck my dick.ā€

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Reacting to the lyrics on social media, the veteran producer and engineer (who himself is white) wrote in an Instagram comment: ā€œRacist shit.ā€

Dean, who is best known for his work with Kanye West, Travis Scott and Scarface, later appeared to reveal he was not being serious as he posted the trollface meme on X (formerly Twitter).

The Grammy-winner also expressed a desire to work with Tyler. In response to a fan who asked if he contributed to Chromakopia, Dean wrote: ā€œNa. Love to work with him tho.ā€

The lyric in question references the backlash to Tyler, The Creatorā€™s recent critique of white rappers for what he sees as ā€œmockingā€ prominent trap artists.

In an interview with Maverick Carter in August, the Odd Future founder said: ā€œThereā€™s this kid right now, this white kid, regular Caucasian man, and heā€™s like mocking Future and Gucci Mane, like rap music. And people are like, ā€˜This shit hard!ā€™

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ā€œItā€™s not even like satire, itā€™s like, ā€˜Iā€™m just joking, Iā€™m just mocking it.ā€™ But Iā€™m like, ā€˜No, no, no, you canā€™t do [that].ā€™ And I hold rap music so close to my heart ā€™cause this shit changed my life and everyoneā€™s life around me, and Iā€™m a nerd about this shit.ā€

He continued: ā€œThis is like weird and Iā€™m looking at it and something about it donā€™t even sit well with me, in comparison to someone like a Mac Miller or Eminem who didnā€™t seem like they were mocking it; they had a genuine love for it.ā€

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While he didnā€™t name any names, many assumed that Tyler was referring to the viral rapper ian who often dresses like a preppy college student but raps in a similar vein to the aforementioned Southern trap stars.

Bu Thiam, Executive Vice President at Columbia Records and the brother of Akon, was one of those who thought Tyler was speaking about his artist and hit back online.

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He wrote on his Instagram Stories: ā€œYo @feliciathegoat, i signed lan & im from Atlanta. He sounds nothing like Gucci or future lol. Itā€™s called influence. But i never thought Iā€™d see the day where you become old & hate on the youth lol.ā€

ian himself has yet to respond to Tylerā€™s comments.