Genius playlists for Tyler, The Creator songs

I would like to have accurate Genius mixes for Tyler's music. When I start a genius playlist for one of Tyler's songs I am expecting the genius to make a solid relative playlist, but when I make a genius playlist the songs are rock and alternative genre music and not rap. Anyone who knows Tyler, The Creator knows that he is hardcore rap, and the genius playlist is full of rock music, then randomly Tyler will show up. It doens't make sense and needs to be fixed!

Hi Chris,
That is weird. One thing to try is to run Disk Utility and Repair Disk Permissions. This may seem completely unrelated, but doing this can fix bugs. Quit any open applications. Launch DU, it's in your Applications/Utilities folder. Select MacintoshHD 10.x.x in the panel on the left, select the FirstAid tab, then click Repair Disk Permissions. Quit DU when it's finished, reboot, launch iTunes and see if there's a difference.
You could also try deleting your iTunes preference file. Quit iTunes.
com.apple.iTunes.plist It's here: /Users/YourName/Library/Preferences.
Drag that file from the Preferences folder to the Desktop.
Launch iTunes. If iTunes functions as it should, drag that file back to the trash, empty the trash and reboot. It simply means your iTunes pref file was corrupted and your Mac will create a new pref file for you the next time you launch iTunes.
Carolyn

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