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Now, not many artists who\u2019ve finally struck it big in their industry would immediately reject all advice, drop any idea for future projects and decide to write and star in their own sketch\/prank comedy show. That is where Tyler,the Creator is not your average creator. The show premiered the same week as Odd Future\u2019s debut album which landed at no.5 on the billboard Hot 200.<\/p>\n
Tyler had been involved in the album while drafting up the ideas for the show. The show \u2018Loiter Squad\u2019 was green lit by Adult Swim, and premiered on March 25th<\/sup> 2012, with Tyler starring alongside his Odd Future members. The show was a hit not only with those at Adult Swim but also with the viewers. Their slots on Adult swim maintained the same level of viewership until its end in July of 2014, with Tyler citing that he no longer wished to continue the show after its third season.<\/p>\n The next few years would become pretty significant for Tyler and his dream of reaching the top of the music industry in his own unique way. His follow up to \u2018Goblin\u2019, titled \u2018Wolf\u2019 was released in 2015, reaching No.1 in Billboard\u2019s hip-hop chart and selling over 100,000 copies in just a week.<\/p>\n The album itself was underwhelming not in case the songs were mediocre or bad but for the first time Tyler wasn\u2019t ahead of the curve, he had diverted his music away from the grotesque nature that was found on \u2018Goblin\u2019 to a more laid back, conventional album. A similar miss step to what Kanye West would repeat only months later with his release of \u2018Yeezus\u2019,\u00a0 both Yeezus and Wolf were and still are underwhelming albums, devoid of originality, that failed to prove any point but to caress an ego.<\/p>\n But whereas Kanye spent the best part of a decade trying to re-write this wrong, Tyler moved on and ventured off onto a completely different and new project. A new project that sounds like the biggest middle finger I have ever heard.<\/p>\n In April of 2015 Tyler dropped his third studio album, \u2018Cherry Bomb\u2019 and in all honesty, a bomb is the prefect word to describe this album. It is purposely all over the place, some of the songs are painful on the ears because how purposely bad Tyler made this album sound. Not many artists would pull this stunt on their fans. But it showed to his audience that he was still capable of shocking and shaking his audience to their core.<\/p>\n Tyler\u2019s level of notoriety with music\u2019s general audience was growing to new heights at this stage, he was on the verge of\u00a0 becoming as household name and because of this he was large enough that people started to look into back his past to see if they could cause trouble. Complaints containing lyrics taken from \u2018B*asterd\u2019 and \u2018Goblin\u2019 were starting to be sent to the British authorities trying to ban Tyler from entering the country after he announced tour dates for his Cherry Bomb Tour that included four concerts in the UK. After the ban was placed on Tyler, he responded that they\u2019re treating him like a terrorist and that the ban was racially motivated.<\/p>\n In the meantime, a year before Tyler would drop any new projects, he called it quits on Odd Future. There would be no going back for Tyler now. But all concerning thoughts regarding Tyler\u2019s future would be washed after the release of \u2018Flower Boy\u2019. Tyler\u2019s fourth studio album and up until that point his most critically acclaimed by far. The album debuted at no.2 on the billboard hot 200 with over 100,000 album sales in the first week, even after the album was leaked a week and a half in advance of its release date.<\/p>\n The album was at the time of its release, Tyler\u2019s most vulnerable album, strong themes of rejection reappeared but also lyrics and themes concerning Tyler\u2019s sexuality really dominated the discussion surrounding this album on a musical standpoint. Tyler had exceeded everyone\u2019s expectations, the sound and quality of every track was on a level even his fans didn\u2019t think he was capable of. The album also earned Tyler his first Grammy nomination for best rap album, eventually going on to lose out Kendrick Lamar\u2019s \u2018DAMN.\u2019<\/p>\n Not much was heard from Tyler the following year, he released a handful of \u201cthrowaway songs\u201d as he called them, throughout 2018, sounding very much like Flower boy B-sides.<\/p>\n In May, 2019. Tyler (after a small teaser) dropped the lead single and his new album \u2018IGOR\u2019 on the same day. The single \u2018Earfquake\u2019 and the album were met with unanimous praise. IGOR debuted at No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and also earned him his second nomination and first win at the Grammys for best rap album.<\/p>\n However Tyler wasn\u2019t fully pleased with his win, elaborating that he felt that the placing of IGOR in the rap category and resulting win was a \u201cbackhanded compliment\u201d stressing that IGOR is not<\/u> a rap album.<\/p>\n \u201cPeople who look like me are always put in rap or urban categories\u2026why can\u2019t we ever be in pop?\u201d Tyler asked in an interview right after the ceremony.<\/p>\n It felt like it was a pat on the head to keep him quiet. He\u2019s finally made it to the top of the mountain to sit amongst the gods but he\u2019s been placed at the kids table.<\/p>\n His reputation of being the outsider, someone not bound to the same desires as other artists is keeping from being put in the same category with the likes of Lizzo or Billie Eillish or Ariana Grande when his newest work has more similarities with their albums than any of the albums that Tyler was competing with in the Rap category.<\/p>\n At this point in time, at the start of a new decade, Tyler\u2019 stock has never been higher. He has shown how much of a creative and genre blending artist he is. He\u2019s worked and still continues to work with not only some of the industry\u2019s biggest legends but also collaborated with some of the most promising rising stars and starlets across a number of industries.<\/p>\n This could be the decade in which Tyler defines himself, this could be the decade in which Tyler sets the tone for his generation, and this could be the decade in which Tyler lays out the standards for what it means to be a creator.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.anfocal.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/flower-boy-300x158.jpg\")
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