‘Tina’įor whatever reason, Tyler felt the need to have one song on all three albums in this trilogy where he fucked around with his two favourite loveable idiots Jasper and Taco. An awful song, one of history’s worst, surely? 46. Tyler should never have committed this atrocity to record. Boppin Bitch is akin to a mid-2000’s Eminem skit. His feature is so cringeworthy and his interpolation of the Bed Intruder Song is actually inconceivable. Fish is the most boring song in the entire trilogy, and without a doubt in my mind the worst thing Frank Ocean has ever willingly put his name to. Yes, I enjoyed the nostalgia injection regardless. SO, without further ado, I present to you: All forty-seven songs from Tyler’s Wolf trilogy ranked from worst-to-best.* Yes, I listened to all of these songs again. We’re not here to talk about those albums though, we’re here to talk about the Wolf trilogy. His three most recent releases, 2017’s Flower Boy, 2019’s IGOR, and 2021’s CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST are extraordinary in their own right, and serve as much better examples of what Tyler is capable of. Odd Future may have been a flash in the pan moment, a cultural phenomenon that threatens never to be repeated, and a nostalgia trip for many a twenty-something year old, but it’s also arguably the worst leg of Tyler’s career. He had now created a trilogy of albums that had a loose storyline running throughout them (I implore you to read about it, it’s a pretty great feat for an artist who had just started rapping). In 2013, however, Tyler would release his best project (at that point), Wolf, an album that continued in a similar vein to Bastard and Goblin but with slightly better instrumental offerings and more clearly thought out songs about abandonment and the difficulty of finding fame. If you’ve never heard Bastard or Goblin, you should know they got Tyler banned from the United Kingdom for his use of homophobic slurs and violent lyricism towards women, and then - in a Twilight Zone-esque turn of events - Tyler himself later came out as a member of the LGBTQ+ community. Odd Future merchandise, mostly characterised by the now iconic ‘donut’ emblem on hoodies and t-shirts, was everywhere, skateboarding became cool for a generation of hip-hop lovers once again, and a rebellious attitude wrought havoc through many a family home. It also started to spawn personalities like those I described in the first paragraph of this increasingly long introduction to this article. It would serve as the perfect predecessor for his debut album, Goblin, a project that made headlines for some seriously questionable lyricism and set Tyler up for world tours alongside his clique of misfits, Odd Future. They would be wrong, however.īack in 2009, a teenage Tyler released Bastard, a mixtape recorded in his grandmother’s basement that was filled with juvenile profanity and a dark deep-dive into Tyler’s psyche. Relative newcomers to Tyler’s music could be mistaken for thinking the Grammy Award-winning rapper/producer-turned-musician and fashion extraordinaire came into music with his head already glued on straight, nothing but soulful croons and piano raps in his arsenal. If you’ve not already been transported back to a time when you’re strutting through your high school (or equivalent) eyeing up the above reprobates with disdain (unless you were one of them, of course, like I was), then you’ve probably never heard Tyler, the Creator’s 2011 debut album Goblin. The description of these three individuals is specific enough and yet alienating enough for your reaction to be either: “shit yeah, I completely get what you’re talking about, those were the days”, or, “the guy who wrote this is clearly unhinged, why is he talking about cats and donuts?” A third guy, meekly brandishing a skateboard under his arm, is wearing a jet-black hoodie with a giant pink donut plastered across its front. Crowded around him is another morose looking white guy who has scrawled an upside-down cross on his hand in crusty marker pen and spent his last class before lunch doodling pictures of cats. POV: You’re walking through your high school in 2011 (if you’re in the UK or anywhere outside America, then squeeze your eyes really tight and imagine a ‘high school’ as hard as you can! Magical.) There’s a white kid wearing a Supreme snapback and a tye-dye t-shirt leaning against a locker.
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