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About Tyler, The Creator
Hometown
Hawthorne, CA, United States
Born
March 6, 1991
Genre
Hip-Hop/Rap
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. 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 also 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.
Raised in Los Angeles County, Tyler (born Tyler Okonma in 1991) started experimenting with music in his early teens, cofounding the Odd Future collective in 2007, a group whose members included fellow iconoclasts Earl Sweatshirt, Frank Ocean, and Syd Tha Kyd. Influenced by the grab-bag eclecticism of Pharrell Williams and his own tirelessly messed-up inner monologues, Tyler’s official debut, Goblin, came out in 2011. (“Wow, life’s a cute b***h full of estrogen,” he rapped on the title track. “And when she gives you lemons, n***a, throw ’em at pedestrians.”) Gritty, nightmarish, and barbed, the album established him as a kind of antihero: an artist whose bad reputation only made his fans love him more. Wolf (2013) and Cherry Bomb (2015) explored similar psychological territory with increasing nuance; his productions got more sophisticated, too, exploring soul-jazz (“FIND YOUR WINGS”), Latin music (“Tamale”), and ’90s R&B (“Awkward”) in ways that were both discordant and colorful, a full rainbow of bad feeling.
In 2017, he released Flower Boy, an album whose vulnerability and eclecticism represented a major step up—a maturation from young punk to complex young man. It ended up being nominated for a Grammy. Meanwhile, he’d found the time to create not one but three television shows (Loiter Squad, Nuts + Bolts, The Jellies!), launch a vibrant streetwear line (Golf Wang), and spearhead an annual festival called the Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival. Like Kanye and Pharrell before him, and artists such as the BROCKHAMPTON collective after, Tyler represents a new chapter in hip-hop, toying with identity and sexuality, and drawing on influences—skate culture, therapy speak, the kaleidoscopic weirdness of life on the internet—that help to expand rap’s vocabulary while still keeping continuity with the past. In 2019, he released IGOR, his most mood-driven, soul-baring work to date.
After experimenting with Technicolor funk and R&B, Tyler returned to his more linear hip-hop roots with CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST, a constellation of tightly wound flows, dynamic production, and sleek wordplay. Laced with narration from DJ Drama and features from artists like 42 Dugg, YoungBoy Never Broke Again, Pharrell, Brent Faiyaz, and more, it was Tyler at his most eclectic—and somehow his most cohesive, too. He expanded on that vision with 2023's CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST: The Estate Sale, a deluxe edition that doubled down on the hard raps and Tyler's status as a modern icon.
Tyler, The Creator has also released music as a member of Odd Future.
Musical InfluencesTyler, The Creator's musical influences include J-Zone, 8Ball & MJG, Wu-Tang Clan and more.
Influenced by Tyler, The CreatorTyler, The Creator has influenced the music of Rich Brian, Billie Eilish, Armani White and more.
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