![]() With his latest albums Flower Boy (2017) and Igor – which, thoughtfully probing his own sexuality, had positioned him several worlds away from the questionable content of his early albums – he was no longer quite such a volatile figure. “And you call this sh-t rape but I think that rape's fun,” he spits on Blow.Īnd so, naturally, Tyler was excited to return. The lyrics, from his debut 2009 album Bastard, included homophobic slurs and seemingly described violent rape fantasies. The 27-year-old – real name Tyler Gregory Okonma – who bears the audacious, often problematic crown of his generation’s most controversial rapper, had been banned from the UK in 2015 over lyrics Home Secretary Theresa May deemed violent and homophobic. During 2017 Tyler guested on a new Frank Ocean song ("Biking," released on Ocean's Blonder Radio channel) and announced that he would be writing a theme for science TV personality Bill Nye.On May 17, when Tyler, The Creator released his fifth studio album Igor, the Californian-born rapper and producer flew into London for the first time in four years. Ironically the Cherry Bomb album included some of his most positive lyrics in between the wild free-associations. visits and made him cancel 2015 festival shows in Leeds and Reading. There was also more controversy as Tyler's lyrics caused Theresa May, then U.K. 2015 brought the album Cherry Bomb, which an even splashier cast of guests (Kanye West, Lil Wayne and Schoolboy Q.). Tyler also created a dark-humored, inarguably weird series of Mountain Dew commercials featuring a gangsta goat these were quickly pulled by PepsiCo. Meanwhile Tyler was racking up high-profile collaborations (his second album Wolf featured Ocean, Pharrell, Erykah Badu and more) and occasionally raising eyebrows. They also launched their online radio station, Dash Radio the following year. Odd Future became known as much for its offbeat comedy as much as its music 2012 saw the premiere of their TV show, Loiter Squad, on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim. Future star Frank Ocean was one of the early members, and later credited his friendship with Tyler for inspiring him to get creative a s a songwriter. Around the same time Tyler launched his expanded hip-hop crew, the ten- member Odd Future (officially, Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All), a group whose colorful personalities and wild irreverence played like a more extreme Wu-Tang Clan. Two years later the single "Yonkers" became a viral hit and led to the XL label signing him for the second album Goblin. His first mixtape, 2009's Bastard was released the year of his graduation, Pitchfork named it the #32 best album of that year. By the time he'd graduated high school he'd been to twelve different schools, and progressed from designing imaginary albums to recording real tracks at home. Raised in the same town (Hawthorne) as the Beach Boys, Tyler was born of mixed Nigerian, African-American and white Canadian heritage. Only 16 at the time, Tyler was described as "a little miniature Andre 3000" who "operates at a significantly higher voltage than the average teen." At the time Tyler was already publishing a magazine called Odd Future, a name he would be associated with later on. Long before he emerged as a significant figure in alternative hip-hop, Tyler, the Creator (real name, Tyler Gregory Okonma) was profiled in a 2008 Los Angeles Times story about budding rappers in the city's high schools.
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