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This content has recently been ported from its original home on The AU Review: Music and may have formatting errors – images may not be showing up, or duplicated, and galleries may not be working. Tyler is still yet to comment on the rumours regarding his sexuality, but it is still a testament to how polarizing Flower Boy is by putting the question into our heads in the first place. The production, writing and features coincide to create an incredible experience for hip-hop fans. There really is no doubt that Flower Boy is Tyler’s most ambitious effort to date. Unfortunately, Tyler’s attempted recruitment of Nicki Minaj and Kanye West for the song “I Ain’t Got Time!” was unfruitful, leaving fans wondering what could have been. From singers ( Frank Ocean, Kali Uchis) to rappers ( A$AP Rocky, Lil’ Wayne, Jaden Smith) to musicians ( Steve Lacy), Flower Boy has an array of talent at its wholesome disposal. All those who featured on the tracklist were perfectly recruited and performed greatly over instrumentals that highlighted their strengths. The abrasive “Who Dat Boy” and the wickedly catchy “I Ain’t Got Time!” never fail to incite a rabid sense of excitement into the listener.Īnother thing which Tyler nailed is the enlistment of the features. The floatier tracks on Flower Boy are often heart-fluttering and body-swaying, but when a track hits hard, it hits like Mayweather on McGregor. Tracks with starry instrumentals like “Droppin’ Seeds”, “Garden Shed” and “Glitter” all innovate a new sound, while also somehow still retaining that Tyler flavour that fans have become so accustomed to. Tyler’s arguably tired formula was slowly getting tiresome and the switch in styles was like a breath of fresh air. Trading out hard-hitting, abrasive delivery for soft, dreamy tones surprisingly did a lot to move Tyler’s sound forward. Tyler’s aggressive demeanour as shown on Goblin, Wolf and Cherry Bomb has been more or less compromised on Flower Boy. The song was fresh, unheard of, something Tyler fans would have never even thought of. However, the release of “911/Call Me” was interesting. The single itself, while great, sounded like a classic Tyler song, albeit with heavy A$AP Rocky influence. The release of the first single “Who Dat Boy” didn’t do much to sway people’s opinions that Tyler had evolved the way he has. In a truly perplexing turn of events, Tyler’s new album Flower Boy is rife with glossy instrumentals and cheery overtones, something which was practically unheard of from Tyler previously.
Throughout his career, it would have been unlikely for anyone to believe that Tyler was homosexual, but after the release of Flower Boy, many were left with raised eyebrows and racing minds. One woman actually encouraged women who come into sexual contact with Tyler to, and I quote, “go backstage and bite his dick off and I will personally bail you out of jail”, which, in the opinion of this writer, is an abhorrent thing to suggest PURELY based off of dislike for his musical content or character.
From inciting a riot in 2014 for goading fans to push past security at a sold out show at the SXSW music festival, to creating controversy over a Mountain Dew advertisement which many claimed to be racist and misogynistic, to many instances of abusing the word “faggot” in his tracks, Tyler has never been one to stand down to society’s norms. Tyler’s tracks involved rape, misogyny, abuse, homophobia and many other controversial topics, all of which incited riots and campaigns against him. Tyler’s aggressive, controversial style and lyricism garnered a cult following for the Odd Future member. Tyler the Creator’s near decade long rap career has been sprinkled with controversy, if the term “sprinkled” really meant “completely survived by”.