Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All
| Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All (OFWGKTA) | |
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 Odd Future at a concert in Toronto |
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| General information | |
| origin | Los Angeles , California |
| Genre (s) | Hip-hop , indie rap |
| founding | 2007 |
| resolution | 2015 |
| Website | http://oddfuture.com/ |
| Founding members | |
| Tyler, the Creator | |
| Last occupation | |
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Tyler, the Creator Hodgy Beats |
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| former members | |
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Casey Veggies Brandun DeShay |
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Odd Future (abbreviated OFWGKTA , even Wolf Gang ), usually only Odd Future called, was an American hip-hop - group from Los Angeles , California . Rapper Tyler, the Creator was the founder and front man of the group, which he claims had 60 members. The group was managed by Christian and Kelly Clancy.
history
Odd Future formed as a skate group in Los Angeles in 2007 , and they rapped every now and then for fun. The original cast include: Tyler, the Creator (Tyler Okonma), Left Brain (Vyron Turner), Hodgy Beats (Gerard Damien Long), Matt Martians (Matthew Martin), Jasper Dolphin (Davon Wilson) and Casey Veggies (Casey Jones). At some point prior to the release of Bastard , Tyler's Mixtape debut, Brandun DeShay was also working with the group and rapping on one track of Session with Tyler, but they bickered and later DeShay's track was replaced by Mike G. They designed their own website on which they made their self-produced works available for download free of charge. Member Earl Sweatshirt was no longer with the group after the first mixtape of the group until March 2012, because his mother, Cheryl Harris, a professor, had sent him to the Coral Reef Academy , a boarding school for difficult-to-educate boys, so that he would not have any contact to the rest of the collective. Odd Future was independent for a long time, i.e. not under a contract with any major label , he signed a contract with the XL Recordings label for Tyler, the Creators' second album Goblin .
The group's style has often been referred to as horrorcore , but since Odd Future does not see himself as a horrorcore rapper, they said this on Twitter , in interviews and in the song Sandwitches by Tyler, the Creator and Hodgy Beats, in which Tyler "And we don't fucking make horrorcore, you fucking idiots Listen deeper than the music before you put it in a box, Wolf Gang" clarified in the outro. Pitchfork Media then assigned the group to indie rap.
In April 2011 the group founded their own label Odd Future Records. Most of the songs are recorded in a room in the house of two band members, Syd tha Kyd and Taco Bennett, whom they call "The Trap". In 2011 the group was nominated for the O Music Award and the MTV2 Sucker Free Award.
In May 2015, Tyler, The Creator, announced on Twitter that Odd Future had broken up.
Members
Individual members
- Tyler, the Creator (rapper, producer, actor, director)
- Hodgy Beats (rapper, occasional producer)
- Left Brain (producer, occasional rapper)
- Frank Ocean (singer, rapper, producer)
- Syd tha Kyd (producer, DJ, sound engineer, singer)
- Domo Genesis (rapper)
- Earl Sweatshirt (rapper, occasional producer)
- Mike G (rapper)
- Matt Martians (producer, sound engineer, singer)
- Hal Williams (producer, rapper)
- Jasper Dolphin
- Taco Bennet
- L-boy
Jasper, Taco and L-Boy are official members of the group, but they are neither professional rappers nor producers. Nevertheless, they can be heard on some songs, and the three of them stand in front of the camera with Tyler, the Creator for the show Loiter Squad . The rapper Vince Staples began his music career in the circles of the Odd Future Wolf Gang and is also close friends with Earl Sweatshirt , but emphasizes explicitly that he is not a member of the group.
Mergers within Odd Futures
Within the group there are several smaller associations of two or three members.
- MellowHype
Consists of Hodgy Beats and Left Brain
- The Internet
Consisting of Syd tha Kyd and Matt Martians
- The Jet Age of Tomorrow
Consists of Matt Martians and Hal Williams
- EarlWolf
Consists of Tyler, the Creator (Wolf) and Earl Sweatshirt
- Sweaty Martians
Consists of Earl Sweatshirt and Matt Martians
- MellowHigh
Consists of Hodgy Beats, Domo Genesis and Left Brain
- I Smell Panties
Consists of Tyler, The Creator, and Jasper Dolphin
Associated artist
Trash Talk , BadBadNotGood, Casey Veggies , Kilo Kish, Vince Staples .
Discography
Albums
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| 2012 | The Odd Future Tape Vol. 2 | - | - | - |
UK40 (1 week) UK |
US5 (6 weeks) US |
First published: March 20, 2012
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Mix tapes
- 2008: The Odd Future Tape
- 2010: Radical
Compilations
- 2011: 12 Odd Future Songs (Odd Future Records)
Loiter Squad
On September 8, 2011, the group announced that it would air the television show Loiter Squad on Adult Swim . The show is a sketch comedy .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Complex Music Report
- ↑ Twitter of October 8, 2010
- ↑ Interview on trashmagazine.com ( Memento of the original from July 30, 2012 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Goblin album on Pitchfork Media
- ↑ Report on MTV.com
- ↑ Odd Future on latimes.com
- ^ Radio FM4 "Nate" Review
- ↑ Chart positions: UK US
- ↑ Adult Swim announces Loiter Squad
