‘Get Out Of Here With That Bulls**t’: Tyler Perry Calls Out ‘Highbrow’ Critics Of His Films: The director argued that naysayers shouldn’t “be able to….see more

Filmmaker Tyler Perry is hitting back at “highbrow” critics of his movies. “I know for a fact that what I’m doing is exactly what I’m supposed to be doing,” he said on Tuesday’s episode of the “Baby, This Is Keke Palmer” podcast.

“For everyone who is a critic, I have thousands of — used to be — emails from people saying: ‘This changed my life. Oh, my God, you know me. Oh, my God, you saw me. How did you know this about my life and my family?’ So that is what is important.
Perry, who is often called one of Hollywood’s most successful Black directors, also said that “if you let somebody talk you out of a place that God has put you in, you are going to find yourself in hell.”

His comments came after podcast host Keke Palmer made reference to Michael R. Jackson’s “A Strange Loop,” a musical in which an aspiring Black playwright lambastes the filmmaker’s depictions of his characters. Perry said his fans deserve to have their stories told in his work.

“We’re talking [about] a large portion of my fans who are disenfranchised, who cannot get in the Volvo and go to therapy on the weekend,” Perry said. “So you’ve got this highbrow Negro who is all up in the air with his nose up looking at everything, and then you’ve got people like where I come from, and me, who are grinders, who really know what it’s like, whose mothers were caregivers for white kids, and were maids and housekeepers.”

He added: “Don’t discount these people and say that their stories don’t matter. Who are you to be able to say which Black story is important or should be told? Get out of here with that bullshit.”