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― 龜, Sunday, 26 October 2014 11:49 (nine years ago) link
#GamerGate
― some dude, Sunday, 26 October 2014 13:03 (nine years ago) link
new album Igor out next week, very excited since Flower Boy was surprisingly fantastic
― ufo, Monday, 6 May 2019 23:31 (four years ago) link
the clips on his instagram sound real fuckin' cool. I'm stoked about this project.
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw7ane2l0D0/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BxAhp1FF3Fy/
― unashamed and trash (Unctious), Tuesday, 7 May 2019 00:53 (four years ago) link
did Flower Boy really get no discussion anywhere on here at all? i didn't hear it until right at the end of 2017 but it's certainly a favourite now, so lush
― ufo, Tuesday, 7 May 2019 13:38 (four years ago) link
definitly some amazing moments so far
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 17 May 2019 12:58 (four years ago) link
this is sounding pretty good but idk if i'm sold on the way tyler has his voice (and a lot of the guest spots) pitched up nearly the entire time
― ufo, Friday, 17 May 2019 13:43 (four years ago) link
heard this earlier. it wasn't as good as flower boy
― imago, Friday, 17 May 2019 15:10 (four years ago) link
Woke up early and put on my headphones to listen through the whole thing undisturbed. I like it a lot, but it seems like there's a lot to unpack. So much going on that I feel like I gotta go through it a few more times to absorb it. I'm a little worried that there's TOO much layered to the point of detracting from the whole.
The thing that was bothering me was that I couldn't tell if my headphones were busted on I Don't Love You Anymore--the backing vocals are doing this weird peaking, kind of distorted thing as they reach the top of their line. Examples: 32 seconds, 38 seconds, 46 seconds. Can someone verify if that's just in there, or if my headphones are a little fucky?
― unashamed and trash (Unctious), Friday, 17 May 2019 15:53 (four years ago) link
lots of cool sounds and moments on this, but i definitely prefer the sonic palette of flower boy. it does do an excellent job of blending the aesthetics of goblin and flower boy into something that makes sense--it'll probably grow on me.
― i think ur a controp (voodoo chili), Friday, 17 May 2019 20:00 (four years ago) link
feels very Kanye ...not much rapping on it so far
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 17 May 2019 20:45 (four years ago) link
lmao
.@tylerthecreator made Flex so uncomfortable lmaooo pic.twitter.com/JPsHzb3H1X— First Klass Breakfast (@FKB_Online) July 25, 2019
stay til the end for Flex's final reax
― alpine static, Thursday, 25 July 2019 17:16 (four years ago) link
Full freestyle starts around 1h21m. Entire show is adorable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz1DBeX4fGA
― maffew12, Friday, 26 July 2019 01:21 (four years ago) link
omg that freestyle is hilarious
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 26 July 2019 02:07 (four years ago) link
ditch Flex and give Tyler a show on Hot 97 imo
― alpine static, Friday, 26 July 2019 03:15 (four years ago) link
god, i wanna watch this but Flex is cringey
― alpine static, Friday, 26 July 2019 03:19 (four years ago) link
skip to 1:20 you gotta see the whole freestyle
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 26 July 2019 03:44 (four years ago) link
yeah, that was hilarious.
Tyler is one of those musicians where I like his music fine, but I like everything else about him even more.
― alpine static, Friday, 26 July 2019 04:32 (four years ago) link
This was a very enjoyable interview
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 26 July 2019 19:14 (four years ago) link
ooooooooooooo ooooooo oooooooooohttps://www.highsnobiety.com/p/tyler-the-creator-new-album-rollout/
― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 14 June 2021 02:00 (two years ago) link
new shit https://www.callmeifyougetlost.com
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 17 June 2021 02:45 (two years ago) link
cmon guys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJea386275c
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 23 June 2021 00:07 (two years ago) link
loved flower boy, was indifferent to igor, cautiously optimistic about this?
― ufo, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 00:07 (two years ago) link
i will forever be interested in Tyler, no matter what he does musically
heck, i may already be more interested in *him* than his music
― alpine static, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 00:32 (two years ago) link
his music is definitely not very interesting
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Wednesday, 23 June 2021 01:02 (two years ago) link
you're definitely mistaken
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 23 June 2021 01:06 (two years ago) link
I can't say his flow has really improved at all over the past ten years. Stylistically it seems mostly like edgy Soundcloud-type rap?
So Billie Ellish just got called out on Tiktok for some ten year old video featuring her singing the Tyler song Fish, which apparently has some anti-Asian racism in it. Did I miss the part where he got called out for writing the song, or does he get a pass on Tiktok?
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Wednesday, 23 June 2021 03:40 (two years ago) link
women are held to a higher standard on that
― dyl, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 03:47 (two years ago) link
"fish" was from the time when tyler was also being wildly homophobic & misogynist everywhere so i think anyone who was already giving him a pass on all the other shit wasn't going to care about another racial slur thrown in. that shit all sucked at the time and still sucks now though.
― ufo, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 05:32 (two years ago) link
i think the whole kerfuffle is a result of stan wars and tyler doesn’t have that kind of fanbase, and isn’t perceived as a threat to ariana grande’s pop supremacy or whatever, so they focus on billie instead (yes it’s 2021 and tyler, the creator fans are the relatively well-adjusted ones)
― the mai tai quinn (voodoo chili), Thursday, 24 June 2021 12:25 (two years ago) link
still love flower boy, igor didn’t impress me at first but has grown on me tremendously
i’ll always have a soft spot for that album for keeping dj khaled from going number one and thereby influencing him to trounce through the sony building in new york and yell at everyone for letting him down
― the mai tai quinn (voodoo chili), Thursday, 24 June 2021 12:28 (two years ago) link
(tyler, the creator is also a sony music artist)
xxp Though Pitchfork’s brief piece on Billie’s apology (which deployed some mighty weasel words like “she now claims”) also simply linked to the Tyler song on YT – and their 8.0 review of the album – without really interrogating the point of why it’s ok for Tyler to say it. (The TMZ article they linked to, which was better than theirs, actually did mention it at the end!)
― search term: buttrock (morrisp), Thursday, 24 June 2021 14:03 (two years ago) link
(it's also telling that they don't frame it in the context of stan wars, just - "an old video which surfaced on TikTok over the weekend," or whatever)
― search term: buttrock (morrisp), Thursday, 24 June 2021 14:11 (two years ago) link
Why telling? (If I'm missing an obvious point, I blame insomnia -- in which case you can just tell me to get some sleep and leave it at that.)
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I should also note that while I don't really rate his new work highly in general, his guest verse on 327 was a standout for me last year.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Friday, 25 June 2021 05:16 (two years ago) link
new album is really pretty good, production is lovely & lush same as the last two
― ufo, Friday, 25 June 2021 05:26 (two years ago) link
Yeah respectfully Lumberjack is the only track off it I gave a close listen to, and I wouldn't call it lovely or lush. What gives, is it my headphones? Could you give any particularly lush recommendation from the release?
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Friday, 25 June 2021 05:43 (two years ago) link
RUNITUP, LEMONHEAD, MASSA so far
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 25 June 2021 06:49 (two years ago) link
"wusyaname", "hot wind blows", "massa", "run it up", "sweet / i thought you wanted to dance", "rise" and "safari" are all pretty lush?
obviously "lumberjack" is going for a different thing
― ufo, Friday, 25 June 2021 08:11 (two years ago) link
I'm loving this, the first Tyler that I really feel like I can enjoy instead of admiring and respecting itbut I'm not very invested in Tyler and his whole narrative, this is a just a really fun and quirky backpack rap album which is what I'm intosame reason I will always love uknowwhatimsayin? by Danny Brown more than Atrocity Exhibition
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 25 June 2021 17:48 (two years ago) link
i skimmed this, some cool & fun production which is a refreshing change of pace, still not really into him as a rapper
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Friday, 25 June 2021 17:57 (two years ago) link
wtf the wayne verse on this is so good lol
― the mai tai quinn (voodoo chili), Friday, 25 June 2021 21:10 (two years ago) link
the youngboy verse is insane also
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Friday, 25 June 2021 21:18 (two years ago) link
i went back to igor and yeah the new one's a lot better than it. igor was him experimenting & is more about the vibes than anything else, it really de-emphasises the vocals & ends up feeling kinda formless as a result, and his different vocal style doesn't really mesh as well with his production? like his gravelly voice was important for anchoring his sound, so with him avoiding that the balance is off & the contrast between the lush higher end & the distorted bass/drums of his style clashes more.
while the new one is just playing to his established strengths from flower boy and might be even better than it too. "this is a just a really fun and quirky backpack rap album which is what I'm into" otm
― ufo, Saturday, 26 June 2021 04:04 (two years ago) link
love all three, it's his imperial phase I reckonwhat's good: when this dropped my 19yo daughter, who had been going out of her mind waiting, didn't know - so I got to tell her, and then we synced up streams while I was at work.
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 26 June 2021 04:57 (two years ago) link
xpost
Right, upper MS shakedown OTM.
Out of what's been recommended so far, Massa is the strongest to me. The second half of it is really what I was hoping for from him, but it still sounds like through much of this material he's bored; or despite the braggadocio about how courageous he is, he's still quite guarded.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Saturday, 26 June 2021 05:23 (two years ago) link
this is the first thing of his that's completely clicked for me I think
― intern at pelican brief consulting (Simon H.), Sunday, 27 June 2021 14:23 (two years ago) link
BET AWARDS 2021: LUMBERJACK @BET <3 LOVE pic.twitter.com/Bqzh7dLMxl— Tyler, The Creator (@tylerthecreator) June 28, 2021
― too cool for zen talk (Eazy), Monday, 28 June 2021 17:40 (two years ago) link
hooked on the first listen to the new stuff. not been fussed since the early days
DAE feel like odd future were the last exciting & punk thing to happen to music. nothing has been as forward and fun in identity since
― maelin, Wednesday, 30 June 2021 17:18 (two years ago) link
show streaming right now https://twitch.tv/amazonmusic
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 2 July 2021 00:21 (two years ago) link
this is pretty great on first listen
― burly crafty woodsman (James Harden) vs tall ethereal phantom (forksclovetofu), Monday, 5 July 2021 16:15 (two years ago) link
holding up very nicely in the rising heat
― intern at pelican brief consulting (Simon H.), Tuesday, 13 July 2021 15:52 (two years ago) link
am I the only person who has had the opposite reaction? two listens and this doesn't grab me the way Igor or Flower Boy did.
― akm, Tuesday, 13 July 2021 20:42 (two years ago) link
I loved Igor but have had a hard time getting into this one despite it sounding fairly similar to me. Guest verses are quite strong throughout, though. He still seems like a singular artist with a sound that I don't hear much precedence for and/or followers. Thoughts? Someone mentioned Soundcloud rap up thread...this doesn't sound anything like what I think of when I think of Soundcloud rap?
― Indexed, Thursday, 2 September 2021 21:19 (two years ago) link
i love ‘wilshire’
― flopson, Friday, 3 September 2021 03:28 (two years ago) link
I think it's a pretty great one - I've listened a lot over the weeks since its release and haven't tired of it. Interesting to see him reaching for the oldschool vibe, classic beats, DJ Drama as hypeman etc., while the content is pushing a global perspective as the antidote to 'hood vibes. Him saying "call me when you get lost" is a challenge, not a safety net. Anyway for me this music and especially IGOR feels like I feel about Frank Ocean, the artist's own emotional voyage is the centrepiece, the lyrics and bars are a tapestry of moods and anecdotes which give a complex character portrait which I find really engaging. Also "Juggernaut" slams. Thanks for reading my essay.
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 3 September 2021 04:06 (two years ago) link
also the crossover between "I Thought You Wanted to Dance" and Steve McQueen's LOVERS ROCK is cool
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 3 September 2021 04:07 (two years ago) link
this is illuminating (and beautiful) https://www.vogue.com/article/tyler-mitchell-and-tyler-the-creator-talk-picnics-dreaming-and-mariah-carey/amp
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 23:47 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh1pJqEXdsg
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 16 September 2021 19:20 (two years ago) link
want to like that but don't.
― think “Gypsy-Pixie” and misspelled. (We are a white family.) (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 16 September 2021 21:32 (two years ago) link