Much like fellow Odd Future member Frank Ocean, Tyler hasn’t been explicit about how he identifies beyond acknowledging that he’s into dudes. On the other, Tyler’s had a history of carelessly throwing around slurs in interviews and lyrics, albeit in a jokey-enough way to not get himself into serious trouble.īut on Flower Boy, Tyler ditches his shock jock persona and dark, aggressive sound, instead opting for mellow, sun-soaked beats and lyrics that probe emotional complexities. Tyler has long been the definition of a #problematicfave: On one hand, he and Odd Future pioneered the current era of weird-is-cool, parlaying their music and fashion sense into a full-blown lifestyle brand that ushered alternative hip-hop into the mainstream. Stylistically and lyrically, Flower Boy shows us a softer, more thoughtful Tyler who seems to have moved past the vulgar, sometimes violent rhymes that made Odd Future and his early solo work famous. In fact, the reference is only in passing, buried mid-verse on “I Ain’t Got Time!” and again on “Garden Shed” when he says he “thought it was a phase.”
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Tyler tweeted that he recorded “OKRA” in January “on some rap shit before tour just talking.” He added that he decided a few days ago, “i should shoot something to this and just put it out for fun and move on with my life or it’ll sit on my hard drive like alot of other things.” Tyler, the Creator, released a surprise track on Thursday morning called “OKRA.” The new single, described as a “throwaway” by the artist in the song’s YouTube video description, comes as a stand-alone track, following his Grammy-nominated 2017 album Flower Boy.