He stood out at Rock-A-Field in Luxembourg in 2016, joking about the low number of black people in the audience. More than eight years later, Tyler, the Creator has changed status. If he remains this enfant terrible with a sharp sense of humor, the Los Angeles native has entered a new dimension with his last three albums, major pieces of “pop culture” and synonymous with entry into the very exclusive club of superstars current Music.
Just a few months after his Dantesque performance headlining the Coachella festival, one of the greatest artists of his generation unveils his new album “Chromakopia” this Monday. Why Monday, when album releases are scheduled for Friday? Because Tyler decided so. “You can listen to it when you wake up. You don’t need to deprive yourself of sleep for something that will be there when you wake up,” he announced on
A sign that he no longer plays quite in the same league as the average American rapper, Tyler was able to treat himself to a last-minute “listening party” in front of more than 17,000 people in the City of Angels, Sunday evening, like Kanye West. Also a way to reveal his new masked, paranoid character, straight out of an independent remake of “Get Out”.
But behind the concept, always extremely worked, the 33-year-old rapper reveals himself like never before about his anxieties, his perspectives and his daily life as a music superstar in his most personal album to date. “I’m no longer the guy I was at 20. Shit, people age them, they have kids, families. And all I have is a new Ferrari (…) I have a white hair on my chest. That’s life. I wanted to write about the things I think about when I’m alone,” he said during the event.
His fears linked to fatherhood, love and the discomfort of fame appear in the middle of this album of fourteen tracks, in which several big names participate: his friends Childish Gambino, Schoolboy Q and Frank Ocean, the singer Daniel Caesar, the legend Lil Wayne and popular rappers GloRilla, Sexyy Red and Doechii. Thoughtful when alone, but always well surrounded…
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