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CHROMAKOPIA

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CHROMAKOPIA Album ∙ Hip-Hop/Rap ∙ 2024 Tyler, The Creator As someone who invited fame and courted infamy, first with inflammatory albums like  Wolf  and later with his flamboyant fashion sense via GOLF WANG, Tyler Okonma is less knowable than most stars in the music world. While most celebrities of his caliber and notoriety either curate their public lives to near-plasticized extremes or become defined by tabloid exploits, the erstwhile Odd Futurian chiefly shares what he cares to via his art and the occasional yet ever-quotable interview. As his Tyler, The Creator albums pivoted away from persona-building and toward personal narrative, as on the acclaimed  IGOR  and  CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST , his mystique grew grandiose, with the undesirable side effect of greater speculation. The impact of fan fixation plays no small part on  CHROMAKOPIA , his seventh studio album and first in more than three years. Reacting to the weirdness, opening track “St. Chroma” fi...

CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST: The Estate Sale

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CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST: The Estate Sale ALBUM ∙ RAP ∙ 2021 Tyler, The Creator The 2021 LP gets eight new tracks, plus A$AP Rocky and Vince Staples.