Tyler, The Creator was arrested for inciting riots at SXSW in 2014, and he’s been banned from England, New Zealand, and Australia for “posing a threat to public order.” His clothes are not immune from controversy either.

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One design from Golf Wang’s Fall/Winter 2013 lookbook caused tension within Odd Future. The Internet’s Syd and Matt Martians took to Twitter to condemn T-shirts and hats featuring an image of a person in blackface. They stressed that many of the people wearing them would be white, and producing a T-shirt like that with no historical context — regardless of who designed it — was irresponsible.

In Golf Wang’s Spring/Summer collection last year, Tyler repurposed a Neo-Nazi symbol to make an anti-racism, anti-homophobia graphic, though this time he explained his intentions in detail on his Tumblr post. The original ‘White Pride WorldWide’ symbol became ‘Golf Wang WorldWide’ with the addition of a rainbow flag. This was coupled with a promotional picture of Tyler and a model holding hands that Tyler felt “HAS to piss off the guys who takes this logo serious.” Accusations of homophobia have plagued Tyler since the beginning of his career because of his prolific use of homophobic slurs in his songs, but, Tyler explained, his re-appropriation of hateful words imagery are attempting to “take the power out of something.”

Most recently, Tyler has been showing how he feels about the upcoming presidential election, releasing two election themed T-shirts — one pro-Bernie and the other anti-Trump. With the latter, Tyler slammed the Republican candidate, showing him grinning, with a Hitler mustache, above the dates of the next presidential term and the inscription “we fucked up.” Let’s just hope Tyler’s wrong on that one.