When Tyler released his self-produced debut album, “Bastard,” on his website in late 2009, it was mostly downloaded by friends and users of the message board of popular street fashion blog Hypebeast. Many were wearing homemade OFWGKTA shirts. There was a full-scale punk energy level on both ends, complete with stage dives and fans screaming their lyrics - “Fuck the fame and all the hype, G/I just want to know if my father would ever like me” - and vulgar catchphrases - “Kill people! Burn shit! Fuck school!” - by heart. With that comes rebelliousness, profanity, intense insecurity, dense sarcasm, bizarre non sequiturs and a heartfelt honesty.Įarlier that night in Philadelphia, at a sweatbox known as the Barbary, Odd Future performed to a crowd of 300 kids. The 11 members on the recording side specialize in splattering today’s adolescent experience onto tape. Known to fans as Tyler, the Creator (the superfluous comma is intentional), he’s the founder of and de facto spokesman for Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All, a Los Angeles-based collective of rappers, producers, skateboarders, filmmakers, designers and general miscreants, all in their late teens and early 20s. The bright-eyed and buzzing teen is also rap’s most buzzed-about new star - and quite possibly an emerging threat to both decency-minded parent groups and the major-label infrastructure.
Tyler himself is proof that first impressions are unreliable. He looks nice, but that’s how they usually are.” Flipping to a portrait of a seemingly jolly, fat-faced man he pauses. He shows off a sketchbook filled with his brightly colored marker drawings of doughnuts and cats, ideas for clothing designs and chicken-scratch poetry. His imagination travels as he pretends to be a secret agent, or that the room’s furniture is slowly coming to life. If you do encounter anĪccessibility issue, please be sure to specify the web page and nature of the issue in your email and/or phone call,Īnd we will make all reasonable efforts to make that page or the information contained therein accessible for you.For hours Tyler remains tethered to one spot on the bed, yet he seems to be moving constantly. On this Website, please contact us at +49 (0)30 235 908 500. If, at any time, you have specific questions or concerns about the accessibility of any particular webpage The range of assistive technology is wide and varied. To make the Website as accessible as possible some issues can be encountered by different assistive technology as Please be aware that our efforts to maintain accessibility and usability are ongoing. The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), which also bring the Website into conformance with the Americans UsableNet Inc, a leading web accessibility consultant to help test, remediate and maintain our Website in-line with To accomplish this, Titelmedia has engaged To persons with disabilities including users of screen reader technology. Of its Website, Titelmedia strives to ensure that its Website services and content are accessible Titelmedia (Highsnobiety), is committed to facilitating and improving the accessibility and usability However, one particular stanza still managed to create a social media frenzy: "All my friends lost / They couldn't read the signs / I didn't wanna talk and tell 'em my location / And they ain't wanna walk / Truth is, since a youth kid, thought it was a phase / Thought it'd be like the Frank poof, gone / but, it's still goin' on," raps Tyler. In fact, by Tyler standards, "Garden Shed" is fairly tame.
Nevertheless, the one song that seems to have mesmerized both avid fans and staunch detractors makes no mention of copulating with dead bodies or chronic masturbation, as some of the rapper's more outrageous past singles have.
His latest album, Scum Fuck Flower Boy, is a practice in Tyler-isms. Whether it's necrophilia, matricide or just your normal run-of-the-mill homicide, Tyler has rapped about it, and made sure to do it in a way that is specifically designed to cause maximum discomfort. Since his early Odd Future days, Tyler, The Creator has positioned himself as hip-hop's most gleeful provocateur.