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Tyler announces new album - http://m.pitchfork.com/news/49571-tyler-the-creator-announces-new-album-wolf-three-album-covers-and-tour/
Was hoping Earl would come first
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Also new song tonight
Does everyone suddenly remember why OFWGKTA got hyped in the first place
or will nothing be forgiven and swept under the rug?
Stay tuned folks!
not looking forward to this then
that goblin video wasnt it?
it some became apparent how gimmicky/average they were, but that was pure HYPE
Nah it was Earl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78_loMbmKJ8
Goblin was the last ditch major label attempt to get it back again before Frank Ocean ran with it. Tyler was never the best in OFWGKTA, Earl was the one but he's been quiet a lot of the time.
have you heard 'chum' - it's great
can't remember
I'll dig it out now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCbWLSZrZfw
Earl is quality.
It's due on his new LP
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=FCbWLSZrZfw&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DFCbWLSZrZfw&gl=GB one of my favourites of last year
Chum is excellent
Absolute dejection.
Yeah Earl was always the man
I liked tyler's early stuff as well tho, french, oblivion, splatter etc..
feel he gets a hard time, dude is still only 21. Goblin sucked but he could still do something with that talent and none off the daft hype. Not sure the first album cover up there is an indication he has changed much for this album tho...
yeah he's always had potential
might do something good in the future his voice is killer. He's just going to have to develop in the spot light.
I think the general consensus was that Tyler was gimmicky and average, but there was general talent among the ranks
Such as Earl, of course, Frank Ocean, natch, Hodgy Beats...
OF always seemed like something T,TC was running and the others had an allegiance to, but nothing as deep as Tyler. It came off as his lifeline or something, but he played it off as too much of gimmick and the tunes he used to back it up were quite weak, so it fell on it's arse.
*genuine talent
Yeah
Tyler kind of ran the name into the ground once he got chance to run with the gimic on his own since the others where pre-disposed or busy being a mega R&B star and not really mentioning his affiliation. Shame really.
Bastard is an amazing track though
+ Yonkers, couple others.
I like Frank Ocean, Earl and Mike G a lot, but the rest were always pretty shit really.
yeah I really liked Bastard (the song)
French is pretty good as well I think
but yeah he's definitely not the best
Yeah, French is good
Yonkers is alright, too. Wouldn't rush back to listen to it, though.
What annoyed me was that the Jimmy Fallon performance of Sandwitches was absolutely bangin' in every way, and then the studio version came out and it's so boring.
Except MellowHype produced the best thing OF affiliated so far
So...
as much as you can look back on '10/'11 and cringe
and no self respecting person above the age of 17 should really class themselves as a "big fan" - of OF mostly as a whole, excluding frank & earl - I still find tyler an entertaining and compelling character, even if it is 10% substance and 90% a fairly contrived schtick.
haha
what a narcissistic post
What? How was that narcissistic?
Am I the only one who reeeeeally liked Goblin?
Maybe
What did you like about it, out of interest?
I don't have any extreme hatred for it or anything, but it did disappoint me. My problem with it was how aware of its own hype it was, when the cool thing about Odd Future was that they were just doing their own thing and it looked fun from the outside. The minute they started interacting with the wider rap community, things took a bit of a nose dive for me. I still think Earl is a real talent though, and Frank obviously, but I never really think of him as OF.
It's hard to say, honestly.
From minute one, it was clear that he was so sure of himself on that record, and there are so many great moments - the sickly throb of "Tron Cat," the propulsive combination of Tyler and Hodgy Beats on "Sandwitches," and the remarkably beautiful "Her" and "Analog," both of which hint at a definite depth that's touched on a fair bit on Bastard. It's not without its stupid moments - fun as they may be if you turn your mind off, did we really need Transylvania or Bitch Suck Dick?
The last two tracks of the record, "Window" and "Golden," show so much strength, not only in his ability to spin a story, but in the abilities of everyone else in Odd Future. They wrap themselves around that narrative thread, in which they have to console a troubled and broken character; it's hard not to get goosebumps at Domo Genesis' Biggie Smalls callback: "It was all a dream / I used to read Complex magazine." And, of course, that Frank Ocean verse knocks it out of the park. The common theme of having one long-ass track with everyone on it shows up constantly ("Oldie" is the indisputable champion here), but "Window" is incredibly solemn and beautiful throughout.
On a whole, it's easy to write off Tyler as a lunkhead on Goblin, because a lot of ideas DON'T work. But the ideas that DO work are really quite memorable.
This is all, like, my OPINION, though. To me, Tyler is the third best member of that group (right behind Frank and Earl in no order), so I'm always excited when he makes something.
(He was pretty weak on The OF Tape, Vol. 2, though.)
tick tock - 15 minutes are up
or are we in sudden death overtime?
Domo 23
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4OD3IHs5jU
Hmm.
The bit at the end with Frank is better.
That line
Four story home, gotta climb eight seExplaints of stairs
Just to see where my fucking roof be
made me chuckle
But like, it's better to hear him rap about something that isn't his reputation
Shrug.
*sets