![]() ![]() (“Wow, life’s a cute b***h full of estrogen,” he rapped on the title track. Influenced by the grab-bag eclecticism of Pharrell Williams and his own tirelessly messed-up inner monologues, his official debut, Goblin, came out in 2011. ![]() Raised in Los Angeles County, Tyler (born Tyler Okonma in 1991) started experimenting with music in his early teens, co-founding the Odd Future collective in 2007, a group whose members included fellow iconoclasts Earl Sweatshirt, Frank Ocean, and Syd Tha Kyd. Within a few years, he’d evolved into one of hip-hop’s genuine polymaths, a self-contained brand who not only rapped, wrote, produced, and art-directed, but designed clothes and created television shows whose vision-violent, surreal, sarcastic, and disarmingly introspective-captured the id of an audience who didn’t know how to relate to their feelings but weren’t going to keep them in any longer. ![]() When Tyler, The Creator first started gaining national notoriety around 2008, it would’ve been easy to dismiss him as cheap shock-a snotty kid willing to push every button (mass murder, rape, cannibalism) just to get a little attention. ![]()
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