Although Tyler is moving forward, he sometimes feels stagnant, as many others have over the past year. Everything is thriving except his relationships.
NextThe focus on rap feels like a rejoinder to the melody-forward Igor.
His changes of inflection and lyrical wittiness perfectly express the ecstasy of initial love and flirtation and the biting pain of rejection. Call Me If You Get Lost is Tyler riffling through old yearbooks, laughing at how small your youthful worries seem now but quietly missing their simplicity.
NextThe focus here is very clearly hip-hop from the outset.
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NextThe album turns by the 10th song.
The lyrics veer wildly about, and the music follows suit, in the best possible sense: its stylistic lurches are both unexpected and hugely impressive, the product of an artist with eclectic tastes and a disinclination to make music that fits in with prevalent trends.
NextIn other words, a prototypical rapper.
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NextFor all the column inches expended on them, you would have been forgiven for thinking that this was not a career built to last: the succès de scandale tends to burn bright, but not long; dissenting voices wondered if it were possible to translate infamy and a willingness to give their music away for free online into a career.
As crabby as it was savvy, the collective built a vast and impressive catalogue of prickly songs that lashed out at icons, idols, and influencers high and low. In 2020, Tyler got a W for his IGOR album. DJ Drama goads Tyler on throughout the album as the rapper, producer, director, actor, and designer luxuriates in comfort, opulence, and exquisite taste, sated though no less spiteful.
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Want more stories like this one? The presence of Domo Genesis and DJ Drama recalls early Odd Future releases like Radical from 2010, the year Tyler that he wanted his own Gangsta Grillz tape.
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NextAlthough it is long, the track is excellently paced and acts as an exceptional landing place for a somewhat eclectic tracklist.