Tyler, The Creator deserves to be mentioned among the largest in hip hop

With your eighth studio album, Chromakopia (2025), Tyler, The Creator He guaranteed his longest sequence at the top of the album charts, remaining there for three consecutive weeks so far. The 33 -year -old rapper and producer announced the achievement during his main performance at the music festival he created, Camp flog gnawwhich celebrated its tenth year last weekend.

During this decade, Tyler consistently released songs that expanded its sound, from the sunny pop influence of Flower Boy (2017) until the Call Me If You Get Lost (2021) presented by DJ Drama. Throughout this time, he built a universe now robust in all means – from the worshiped sketch program Lock to your clothing brand Golf and, more recently, its capsule collection with the Louis Vuitton. Tyler It has achieved what many of the figures we consider great from rap continue to seek, but their name is conspicuously absent in discussions about the greatest rappers of all time. While it ends a historic year, it can finally start to change.

If you hear the letters of Chromakopiaas well as the few public interviews he gave this year, you realize that the theme of legacies is beginning to gain focus to Tyler. In music “Darling, I”where Tyler considers a life of monogamy, he rhymes: “No one could satisfy me how this music stop does/So I will be alone with these Grammys when everything is said and done. ”Later, in “Tomorrow”after an introduction of music with the mother of Tyler Asking about grandchildren, he sings, “thought about children brings me stress/because time is changing.”

In August, Tyler gave an interview on the web series Mavericks with Mav Carterwhere he lamented the effects of social networks and streaming on music, criticizing what he called “meme musicians.” Behind his criticism is the concern that the genre he loves, as he puts in the interview, is being diluted by the algorithm. It is perhaps a more thoughtful way of expressing some of the frustrations that fed some of the outfits in the career of Kanye Westwhen he felt that his musical genius was not being appreciated, and well before his right -wing transformation.

In many ways, Tyler is at a similar point in his career today as West in 2010, newly sought from the launch of My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010). That album was the fifth of YE And the beginning of an era when he began to consolidate his legacy and seriously branch into broader creative areas such as fashion. The path paved by YE supposedly opened the doors for Tyler and your group, Odd Futurewho were successful at the same time. Today, Tyler It is also at the forefront of a culture to which it helped to establish the foundations. Like this West, Tyler brought an expanded cultural sensitivity to the hip hopinspired by the worlds of independent rock and skateboarding, while remained fiercely dedicated to rap as an art form. It was within this streetwear environment driven by forums that the other headliner Camp flog gnaw this year, Playboi Cartiemerged in the initial era of Soundcloud.

It is difficult to exaggerate how big the change was that Odd Future represented at the time. Node Camp flog gnaw this year, a photographic exhibition of the photographer Brick Stowell He highlighted the period from 2011, when the group began to truly take off. They were among the first artists born on the Internet to penetrate the mainstream and helped turn up the rules of how rappers should sound, dress and behave so far. There was that group of rebellious and silly children with colorful clothes sending very well in the rap. Now, more than a decade later, it is not difficult to find high school students looking for style inspiration in Tyleras well as the hordes of initial fans of the Of They did in the years 2010.

With the continuous success of Chromakopiathe impact of Tyler In the present generation it is becoming clearer. The most important influencer of the Alpha generation, North Westhas already dressed as Tyler in Halloween, and the audience of Camp flog gnaw this year was tilted to the age group of high school, putting Tyler in a unique position as a transgenerational superstrela. This dynamic explains the change in the tone of your music in these last albums and why Chromakopia It seems a significant moment for him. For good or bad, people don’t put you in conversations about the greatest of all time until you start talking about yourself this way, and it seems that Tyler, The Creator It’s ready to start talking like that.

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