Tyler, the Creator

Tyler, the Creator (2012)

Tyler, the Creator (April 2011)

Tyler, the Creator (born March 6, 1991 in Los Angeles , California ; real name: Tyler Gregory Okonma ) is an American rapper and producer from Los Angeles. He was also the front man of the alternative hip-hop collective Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All (OFWGKTA).

Career

Tyler attended twelve different schools in the Los Angeles area in his twelve school years. On October 25th, 2009 he released his first mixtape, Bastard . However, his breakthrough came in February 2011 with his video for the debut single Yonkers of his debut album Goblin , which got some media attention in the USA as well as in Germany and Great Britain ; not least because the text was perceived as rough and insulting. He was called homophobic because of what he said on Twitter , which he denied. By his own testimony he used the words "gay" (English. Gay ) and "fagot" (English. Fagot ) only to "describe stupid shit" around. Tyler was named MTV's Best New Artist in 2011 . He owns his own record label and TV show on Cartoon Network . 2019 he contributed a rap album The Risky sets of Westbam at. In 2014, the New Zealand authorities denied him and Odd Future entry on the grounds that they were “a potential threat to public order”. In 2015, British authorities imposed a three to five year entry ban on him.

Goblin

The first studio album Goblin from 2011 sold almost 45,000 times in the US in the first week. In Canada , Ireland and Great Britain, too, it mostly reached places in the top 50 and received mostly good reviews. Lyrically it is mostly about his father, who left him early in childhood, or the hatred of pop culture , e.g. B. Taylor Swift or Bruno Mars .

wolf

Early in 2010, Tyler announced that his second album would be titled Wolf . In 2011 he confirmed to his fans on Formspring that the album was titled Wolf and that it should be released in May 2012. The album leads the sessions with Dr. TC continues, his fictional therapist from Bastard and the follow-up album Goblin . Dr. TC (“Therapist Character”) stands for Tyler's various alter egos (including Tron Cat, Tyler's Conscience) and can already be heard on the first album Bastard , where he also says: “This is the first of three sessions…”. The album is said to contain more beats than raps. Tyler said in an interview that he no longer cares about things like rape, that he wants to play weird hippie music and rap about money smartly. It also said: “People who want the first album again, I can't do that. I was 18, broke as fuck. On my third album, I have money and I'm hanging out with my idols. I can't rap about the same shit. ”At the end of 2012 the album still hadn't been released. It wasn't until March 2013 that it was released on iTunes .

Cherry Bomb

On April 9, 2015, Tyler published the song Fucking Young on the official OFWGKTA YouTube page with a music video shot for it and a short excerpt from another new song called Deathcamp . Tyler announced that same day that the two songs would be on his upcoming album Cherry Bomb , which was released on April 13, 2015.

Igor

The fifth album Igor was released on May 17, 2019 and was also Tyler's first album to reach number one on the Billboard 200 . He also received the award for the best rap album of the year at the Grammy Awards the following year.

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
year	title	DE	AT	CH	UK	US	R&B	Remarks
2011	Goblin	DE97 (1 week) DE	-	-	UK21 (2 weeks) UK	US5 gold (14 weeks)US	R&B1 (75 weeks) R&B	First published: May 10, 2011 Sales: + 540,000
2013	wolf	-	-	-	UK17 (2 weeks) UK	US3 (10 weeks) US	R&B2 (30 weeks) R&B	First published: April 2, 2013
2015	Cherry Bomb	-	-	-	UK16 (1 week) UK	US4 (4 weeks) US	R&B1 (11 weeks) R&B	First published: April 13, 2015
2017	Flower boy	DE66 (1 week) DE	AT57 (1 week) AT	CH40 (1 week) CH	UK9 gold (5 weeks)UK	US2 gold (72 weeks)US	R&B1 (12 weeks) R&B	First published: July 21, 2017 Sales: + 645,000
2019	Igor	DE29 (3 weeks) DE	AT7 (3 weeks) AT	CH14 (4 weeks) CH	UK4th silver (7 weeks)UK	US1 (63 weeks) US	R&B1 (... week) R&B	First published: May 17, 2019 Grammy ( Rap )

More albums

2009: Bastard (release: December 25th)
2013: Live at Splash! (Live album; release: November 5th)

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
year	Title album	DE	AT	CH	UK	US	R&B	Remarks
2013	Domo23 wolf	-	-	-	-	-	R&B37 (2 weeks) R&B	First published: February 14, 2013
2013	IFHY Wolf	-	-	-	-	-	R&B47 (1 week) R&B	First release: April 1st, 2013 feat. Pharrell
2017	Who Dat Boy Flower Boy	-	-	-	UK93 (2 weeks) UK	US87 platinum (1 week)US	R&B36 (1 week) R&B	First published: June 30, 2017 Sales: + 1,335,000
2017	911 / Mr. Lonely Flower Boy	-	-	-	-	-	R&B47 (1 week) R&B	First published: June 30, 2017 Sales: +75,000
2018	okra	-	-	-	-	US89 (1 week) US	R&B42 (1 week) R&B	First published: March 30, 2018
The following songs did not appear as single, but were made available for download and streaming through the album and were thus able to achieve a placement:
2019	Earfquake Igor	-	AT61 (2 weeks) AT	CH42 (4 weeks) CH	UK17th silver (7 weeks)UK	US13 × 2 Double platinum (15 weeks)US	R&B5 (17 weeks) R&B	Chart entry: May 26, 2019 Sales: + 2,395,000
	I think Igor	-	-	CH96 (1 week) CH	UK30 (2 weeks) UK	US51 (1 week) US	R&B22 (2 weeks) R&B	Chart entry: May 26, 2019
	Igor's Theme Igor	-	-	-	UK41 (1 week) UK	US67 (1 week) US	R&B33 (1 week) R&B	Chart entry: May 30, 2019
	Running out of time Igor	-	-	-	-	US65 (1 week) US	R&B32 (1 week) R&B	Chart entry: June 1st, 2019
	New Magic Wand Igor	-	-	-	-	US70 (1 week) US	R&B34 (1 week) R&B	Chart entry: June 1st, 2019
	A boy is a gun Igor	-	-	-	-	US74 (1 week) US	R&B36 (1 week) R&B	Chart entry: June 1st, 2019
	What's good Igor	-	-	-	-	US85 (1 week) US	R&B41 (1 week) R&B	Chart entry: June 1st, 2019
	Puppet Igor	-	-	-	-	US88 (1 week) US	R&B43 (1 week) R&B	Chart entry: June 1st, 2019

As a guest musician

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
year	Title album	DE	AT	CH	UK	US	R&B	Remarks
The following songs did not appear as single, but were made available for download and streaming through the album and were thus able to achieve a placement:
2020	TD Lil Boat 3	-	-	-	-	US83 (1 week) US	-	Chart entry: June 13, 2020 Lil Yachty & Tierra Whack feat. ASAP Rocky & Tyler, the Creator

More singles

2010: Fuck This Christmas (with Earl Sweatshirt and Hodgy Beats; release: December 22nd)
2011: Sandwitches (feat.Hodgy Beats; release: February 14th)
2011: Yonkers (release: February 14th; US digital single, US:gold)
2011: French (Toro Y Moi Remix) (Release: March 10th)
2011: She (feat. Frank Ocean ; release: May 10th)
2011: Trouble on My Mind ( Pusha T feat. Tyler, the Creator; release: July 12th)
2011: Martians vs. Goblins ( The Game feat. Lil Wayne and Tyler, the Creator; release: December 20th)
2013: Whoa (Earl Sweatshirt feat. Tyler, the Creator)
2014: Wolf (release: November 7th)
2015: Deathcamp
2015: Fucking Young / Perfect
2016: Go (Gas) (Domo Genesis feat. Wiz Khalifa , Juicy J and Tyler, the Creator; release: November 7th)
2016: Telephone Calls (ASAP Mob feat. ASAP Rocky , Tyler, the Creator, Playboi Carti and Yung Gleesh)
2017: Boredom
2017: See You Again ( feat.Kali Uchis , US:platinum, UK: silver)
2017: I Ain't Got Time!
2018: 435
2018: Peach Fuzz
2018: Potato Salad ( feat.ASAP Rocky )
2018: You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch from The Grinch

Awards for music sales

Golden record

Australia Australia
- 2019: for the single 911 / Mr. Lonely
- 2019: for the single See You Again
- 2019: for the single Who Dat Boy
- 2020: for the album Flower Boy
Denmark Denmark
- 2019: for the album Flower Boy
- 2020: for the album Igor
- 2020: for the song Earfquake
Canada Canada
- 2018: for the album Goblin
- 2019: for the single 911 / Mr. Lonely
- 2019: for the single Boredom
- 2019: for the single Who Dat Boy
- 2019: for the album Flower Boy

Platinum record

Australia Australia
- 2019: for the song Earfquake
Canada Canada
- 2019: for the single Yonkers
- 2019: for the single See You Again
- 2019: for the song Earfquake

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	silver	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Australia (ARIA)	0! S.-	4 × gold4th	platinum1	210,000	aria.com.au
Denmark (IFPI)	0! S.-	3 × gold3	0! P-	65,000	ifpi.dk
Canada (MC)	0! S.-	5 × gold5	3 × platinum3	440,000	musiccanada.com
United States (RIAA)	0! S.-	3 × gold3	4 × platinum4th	5,500,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	3 × silver3	gold1	0! P-	560,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	3 × silver3	16 × gold16	8 × platinum8th

Awards and nominations

2011: MTV Video Music Awards - Best New Artist (Won)
2011: MTV Video Music Awards - Video of the Year - Yonkers (Nominated)
2019: Wall Street Journal - Music Innovator of the Year (Won)
2020: Grammy Awards - Best Rap Album (Won)
2020: Brit Awards - International Male Solo Artist (Won)

Individual evidence

↑ Tyler Gregory Okonma, Rapper Known As 'Tyler, The Creator,' Arrested at the Roxy Theater. In: Huffington Post , December 23, 2011, accessed April 28, 2015
↑ Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All at laut.de.
↑ ^a ^b https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2011/may/09/hip-hop-homophobia
↑ Goblin at laut.de
↑ https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/may/07/tyler-the-creator-odd-future
↑ https://www.laut.de/Westbam/Interviews/EDM-beweist,-dass-in-unserer-Zeit-viel-falsch-laeuft-01-03-2019-1664
^ The Guardian
↑ BBC
↑ http://www.billboard.com/#/album/tyler-the-creator/goblin/1499597
↑ ^a ^b http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/goblin-20110510
↑ Ryan Bassil: The Conspiracy Theorist's Guide to Tyler, the Creator's 'WOLF' Trilogy. In: noisey.vice.com. April 2, 2013, accessed December 11, 2018 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US

Web links

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Website
Tyler, the Creator at Allmusic (English)
Tyler, the Creator at Discogs (English)
Tyler, the Creator in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Tyler, the Creator at laut.de.

personal data
SURNAME	Tyler, the Creator
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Okonma, Tyler Gregory (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	US-American rapper
DATE OF BIRTH	March 6, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH	Los Angeles , California , United States

[1] Tyler Gregory Okonma, Rapper Known As 'Tyler, The Creator,' Arrested at the Roxy Theater. In: Huffington Post , December 23, 2011, accessed April 28, 2015

[2] Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All at laut.de.

[guardian1-3] ttps://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2011/may/09/hip-hop-homophobia

[4] Goblin at laut.de

[5] ttps://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/may/07/tyler-the-creator-odd-future

[6] ttps://www.laut.de/Westbam/Interviews/EDM-beweist,-dass-in-unserer-Zeit-viel-falsch-laeuft-01-03-2019-1664

[7] The Guardian

[8] BBC

[9] ttp://www.billboard.com/#/album/tyler-the-creator/goblin/1499597

[rollingstone-10] ttp://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/goblin-20110510

[11] Ryan Bassil: The Conspiracy Theorist's Guide to Tyler, the Creator's 'WOLF' Trilogy. In: noisey.vice.com. April 2, 2013, accessed December 11, 2018 .

[charts-12] Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US