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March 16, 2014 Bucky Turco

Hip hop weirdo Tyler the Creator was charged with inciting a riot during a SXSW show Thursday night. After taking the stage at the Converse/Thrasher “Death Match” event, which was packed to capacity, police say he encouraged fans waiting outside to push their way through the entrance. They obliged. He was arrested two days later […]

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April 4, 2013 Andy Cush

Each week in Sample Wars, we’ll pit two songs which sample the same source material head-to-head against each other, to determine which one rocked the sample better. To mark this week’s release of Wolf, Tyler, the Creator’s third album, we’re reaching back to the rapper’s debut. Bastard‘s “Odd Toddlers” draws extensively from “Huit Octobre 1971” by the French fusion […]

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February 15, 2013 Andy Cush

Odd Future mastermind Tyler, the Creator announced his new album Wolf yesterday, for which he created and commissioned no less than three different covers–including one from pop surrealist painter Mark Ryden. The image manages to incorporate Ryden’s trademark kitschy, icky style seamlessly into the OF aesthetic, though I think I might prefer the super-close-up action shot. Wolf will be […]

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