On his seventh studio album, “Chromakopia,” the multi-hyphenate Tyler, the Creator pulls back the curtain. Across 14 tracks, the rapper, born Tyler Okonma, interrogates the anxieties that come with age and fame, intertwining them with his own wisdom and some that arrive via carefully placed recorded voice messages.
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It’s not all light, like on the track “Like Him,” where Tyler explores similarities to an estranged father. At a listening party for the album in Inglewood, California, on Sunday night, Tyler offered a kind of mission statement for the album. “‘Oh, I’m not the guy I was at 20,” he said. “I’ve got a gray hair on my chest. Life is life-ing. I just wanted to write about stuff I think about when I’m dolo,” shorthand for the slang term “solo dolo,” to mean “by myself.”
Lead single “Noid” targets celebrity, addressing paranoia and the strange parasocial relationships that come with fame in a claustrophobic, transgressive package. The chorus samples Zambian rock band Ngozi Family’s 1977 track, “Nizakupanga Ngozi.”
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