Frank Ocean adds vocals to a track that is one of the more downtempo moments on the album, but still one of its highlights. He doesn't pull any punches either.Ī cut from 2011's Goblin, 'She' finds Tyler discussing his obsession with the girl that two of his alter-egos – Wolf and Sam – are fighting over, and wrestling with his feelings of lust. Taken from 2013's Wolf, 'Answer' sees Tyler and his alter-egos holed up in Camp Flog Gnaw enduring therapy sessions, and here he addresses issues with the relationship between himself and his absentee father. You can find the video for 'Who Dat Boy?' Below, beneath that we've picked our five key tracks from Tyler's story so far. Along with the likes of Kendrick Lamar and even Kanye West, Tyler is one of a handful of artists really pushing the boundaries in hip-hop and, if nothing else, Scum F*ck Flower Boy shows that he still has plenty more in the tank. It's certainly more downbeat than a lot of his output so far, but it's still a thing of beauty, packed as it is with twists, left turns and contradictions. If you were expecting an album peppered with face-melters like some of his earlier records, you're probably in for a bit of a surprise here, but then it wouldn't be a Tyler album without that sense of puzzlement and wonder. On songs like '911' and 'See You Again', Tyler appears to pour his heart out quite a bit, returning again and again to themes of being alone or unrequited love. What is clear about the new album though is that this is Tyler at his most introspective the constant talk of fast cars on tracks like 'Who Dat Boy' point to the standard fare rap lyrics about living the high life, but even this is subverted by his admission that his purchases are filling a void of loneliness, and it's this latter theme that seems to be the dominant one right across the album. Of the handful of tracks unveiled so far, 'Garden Shed' is the one inspiring the most chatter amongst his fans, since it seems to hint at the rapper coming out of the closet: “Garden shed for the garçons / Them feelings I was guardin' / Heavy on my mind / All my friends lost / They couldn't read the signs / I didn't wanna talk and tell 'em my location / And they ain't wanna walk / Truth is, since a youth kid, thought it was a phase / Thought it'd be like Frank poof, gone / But, it's still goin' on.” Taken at face value, it's easy to see why the lyrics have inspired so much talk about his sexuality, but this is Tyler, after all, and we've been here before. This week sees Tyler deliver the next chapter in the saga with arrival of his fifth album, Scum F*ck Flower Boy, and once again Tyler has everyone guessing. Up until that point, most of Tyler's lyrics seemed to be projected from one fictional alter-ego or another, but the Odd Future track 'Sam (Is Dead)' featured a video in which Tyler's alter-egos are literally killed off, and the lyrics to various tracks on Cherry Bomb seemed to indicate that Tyler was done hiding behind characters and making an album that was more honest, more direct and more personal.
However, on his fourth album, 2015's Cherry Bomb, there seemed to be a change of direction. For this reason, the first three albums are often described as the 'Wolf Trilogy' and although Tyler himself has never really confirmed any of this, the last few years have seen the internet buzzing with theories about how the lyrics on his first three albums link together to form part of a story. His first three albums – Bastard, Goblin and Wolf – earned him an army of fans thanks his experimental, often chaotic production style and the lyrical concepts running across the first three LPs, which appear to form a running narrative involving several alter-egos like Tron Cat, Sam, Wolf and Ace The Creator, stitched together by several skits depicting 'therapy sessions'.
Tyler, The CreatorĪs the leader and one of the founding members of Odd Future - the hip-hop collective that also includes the likes of Earl Sweatshirt, Hodgy Beats and Frank Ocean - Tyler, The Creator has been involved in some of the most creative output the alternative hip-hop scene has had to offer in recent years.
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