Tyler, The Creator Showcases ‘Chromakopia’ At LA Listening Party

Tyler, The Creator ushered within the Chromakopia period a bit early with a last-minute listening occasion at Los Angeles’s high-tech Intuit Dome Sunday evening, spending over an hour thrashing on a stage of inexperienced transport containers whereas a crowd of 17,000 followers listened to his latest album for the very first time.

It was a homecoming for the LA rapper, who advised the gang Sunday evening that Chromakopia “originated with rising up in these areas.” “I used to be like ‘oh shit, no one is aware of something about me from earlier than [I was 17],” Tyler, carrying a inexperienced navy swimsuit, stated.

Tyler was in his factor, marching onto the stage simply previous 9 p.m. carrying his navy garb and the identical plastic masks from the “Noid” music video. Because the album performed, he was pacing backwards and forwards from one finish of the stage to the opposite, flailing his arms round, sprinting in place and mendacity on the bottom, taking the occasional break to stare off into the gang and soak up his second.

His first album in three years, Chromakopia finds Tyler is using a singular method for its rollout, breaking from the business normal of dropping at Midnight on Friday and as an alternative hoping followers will take the entire week to digest the brand new file with a 6 a.m. Monday launch. “Don’t lose y’all sleep attempting to remain up, fall asleep,” he joked to his followers within the area on Sunday because the album was hours from launch. “I’m excited for y’all to listen to the album the second time, that second time when it hits you, you understand for those who fuckin’ suppose it’s the worst factor ever or for those who’re actually fucking with it.”

Tyler Will get Introspective
Tyler’s lengthy evolution from transgressive shock rapper into certainly one of hip-hop’s best storytellers stays on full show on Chromakopia. As Tyler defined to the gang after the album lastly concluded, most of this file was impressed by the issues his mom would inform him in his youth that he was too younger to grasp. Solely in maturity are these classes really clicking.

“Now that I’m 33, all that stuff is like ‘oh that’s what the fuck she was speaking about,” Tyler, actually dripping with sweat, advised the gang Sunday evening. “‘Oh I’m not the man I used to be at 20. Oh shit, individuals are getting older, people having children and households.’ All I’ve received is a brand new Ferrari, that does really feel type of bizarre. I’ve received a gray hair on my chest. Life is life. I simply wished to jot down about stuff I take into consideration after I’m dolo’ing.”‘

A Rapper Grows Up
These classes have led to some profound materials as Chromakopia grapples with more and more difficult inventive themes like maturity, fatherhood, and love. Tyler particularly digs in about being pregnant in addition to the fears of turning into a father. “Who am I to bitch and complain? You’ve received to cope with all of the psychological and the bodily change,” he raps. “All of the heaviest feelings and the bodily ache simply to offer a child the person’s final identify? Fuck that.”

He poignantly appears to inform a lover to “take off your masks” on one observe, significantly becoming on condition that Tyler himself had lined his personal face in a masks till the final tune on Sunday.

New Sounds
Sonically, Chromakopia embraces some new, moodier sounds that match the vibe he’s established on stage with the navy match. Tyler nonetheless retains a few of the acquainted parts which have lined his music for the reason that Flower Boy interval, although. A few of Chromakopia’s slower songs are nearly harking back to Tyler’s raps, like “Wilshire” from Name Me If You Get Misplaced. Total, the album remains to be high-energy, and Tyler’s nonetheless fast with intelligent, goofy quips. The group cracked up and cheered as Tyler rapped, “fuck what you heard, I’m that n***a, and I’m that bitch,” as one of many closing verses on your complete album.

Hip-hop’s Buzziest Ladies Give Standout Options
Among the many options we caught on the listening occasion have been Schoolboy Q, Teezo Landing, Daniel Caesar, and Lil Wayne, although it was Doechii, Glorilla, And Sexyy Pink who earned many of the consideration. “Sticky” particularly — which options Glo and Sexyy’s verses — appears to be like to be the album’s runaway hit, if the gang’s response throughout the present was any indication, at the very least.

What’s a ‘Chromakopia,’ Precisely?
That query nonetheless remained unanswered by the top of the evening, nonetheless not defined by means of the navy imagery, darkish inexperienced colours, and industrial vibes accompanying the fabric on the file. Nonetheless, the aesthetic is constant, with the cameras displaying Tyler in the identical monochrome gray proven in many of the Noid music video final week. The imagery’s symbolism will doubtless develop into extra clear because the album rolls out.