Tyler, the Creator – IGOR Tyler, the Creator first emerged as a solo artist back in 2009 with the mixtape Bastard , but it wasn’t until 2011, when he released his first studio album Goblin that he came to my attention. He was still not at the point where he was being discussed as anything approaching a top 40 artist and I can still remember a friend of mine showing me the video for “Yonkers” in a “take a look at this guy” kind of way. Regardless, that song specifically stuck out to me as more than just provocative, it was good! I downloaded both Bastard and Goblin and poured over those albums while I was in high school. After Wolf and Cherry Bomb failed to live up to the hype he had created, I became more engrossed in the other Odd Future members; Earl Sweatshirt released two of my favorite albums of 2015 and 2018 respectively and Frank Ocean’s Blonde is probably a 10. But once Flower Boy came out in 2017, everything seemed to change, Tyler had become more nuanced in his lyr...
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