Tyler the Creator is a horrorcore rapper who is being marketed towards indie white ppl. But I guess all rap is marketed towards white ppl, which is why Eminem is widely considered the #1 rapper of all time. Anyways, the New York Times had to 'profile' him bc they basically do that with any buzzworthy noun/entity... restaurants, humans, dogs, events... Sorta wish they would just 'chill out' and stop being a newspaper and just sorta 'riff' on news that other outlets reported.

Anyways, I don't think that this was a 'takedown' piece. Ultimately pretty neutral. Just talks abt how HARDCORE he is... and how polarizing he is with fans and blog sources. But he's just a young kid! Does he even know what he is going thru/saying? This is what rock n roll is ALL ABOUT, yall <3 <3 <3

On a recent Tuesday one of his managers was on the phone at her dining-room table, talking to a person making custom outfits for Tyler and his crew, Odd Future. (Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All, for the wordy.) The 666 was to be the number on Tyler’s baseball jersey. The hot pink made him laugh. And he likes to stand out.

For that he doesn’t really need the jersey. Over the past few months Tyler and Odd Future have been speeding from the margins of the Internet toward the center of forward-thinking music circles thanks to a barrage of self-released albums, mayhem-inducing live performances and an ability — at this point, it’s verging on desire — to instantly polarize listeners.

He's getting OFF THE CHARTS levels of buzz, yall.

In Real Life, Tyler's real name is "Tyler Okonma" and he likes 2 wear sillie clothes and curse. He's such a tender soul.

In real life Tyler Okonma is 20 years old, 6 feet 2 inches tall, lanky and sinewy and irrepressibly goofy, with a vibrant antisocial streak. He’s partial to flamboyantly patterned shirts, gym socks pulled up to the knee and desiccated Vans; loves bacon and doughnuts; says he doesn’t drink or do drugs; and can barely get a sentence out without a curse.

He is basically like a man child, and every1 around him (his enablers) are 'trying to keep him happy' by continuing to treat him like Peter Pan.

“I never want to grow up,” Tyler said later that day, in the backyard of his manager’s house, holding a long-coveted Burger King SpongeBob SquarePants toy watch he bought on eBay for $6.

He’s nurtured now, shielded. He wanted a trampoline for his birthday and got one. Keeping Tyler happy, and focused, is everyone’s priority.

One of the biggest storyline's of Tyler the Creator's career is 'beating asthma.' I feel like this is the 'gimmick' of a guy who was in my 4th Grade class and couldn't run a mile. In addition, 'rap is his therapy 2 deal with life.'

The last time that Tyler had a therapist of any sort, he said, was in fifth grade. “I made lists of who I wanted to torture and kill in the class. I was a really smart kid, so they didn’t understand. We had a GATE program” — gifted and talented enrichment — “there was seven kids in there, and I was one of them, it was just such a contradiction.”

For a time he was on Ritalin but went off it because it interfered with his asthma medication. (He often puffs from an inhaler onstage.)

“If I had a therapist,” Tyler said, “I wouldn’t be able to make the music I want to make, I wouldn’t be able to do what I’m doing now.”

Here is a paragraph that describes how dangerous his ideas are, but then the writer distances himself from the ideas, in order to not compromise his future relationship with Tyler Okomo since he is going 2 be the next Kanye West.

Bigger questions loom, though. With imagery depicting rampant drug use, systemic violence against women, and any number of other distasteful things, Odd Future has become the flashpoint for reigniting the culture wars in hip-hop for a generation that hasn’t previously experienced them, that didn’t realize culture wars were still a possibility. No act in recent memory has engendered so many think pieces about music, think pieces about critics and think pieces about think pieces. Are the group’s lyrics reports of literal desires? The goofs of misguided kids? Does the difference matter?

“They don’t know me; they don’t get it,” Tyler said of critics. “Weren’t they 18 years old at some point, just having fun?”

Is Tyler the Creator the Most Interesting Man in Indie?
R u worried abt him, like he is gonna have a meltdown?
Is his music over-buzzed?
Will Tyler ever 'grow the eff up' and 'man up'?
Is this article a 'puff piece' or did u learn a lot abt Tyler Okonma?
Is he more creative than the Creator's Project?

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Tyler is a teenage producer, rapper, and the leader of an experimental lofi shock-rap crew called Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All.

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