Tyler, the Creator Releases New Album Chromakopia: Listen

Tyler, the Creator’s Chromakopia is right here. Hearken to the self-produced Name Me If You Get Misplaced follow-up album beneath. It options Infantile Gambino, Schoolboy Q, Teezo Landing, Daniel Caesar, Doechii, and, on “Sticky,” Lil Wayne, Glorilla, and Sexyy Crimson, in response to Rolling Stone, XXL, and others, although no visitor performers are credited on streaming companies on the time of writing.

Samples on the LP embrace Zambian musician Paul Ngozi, on “Noid,” Q-Tip and James Brown, on “Darlin, I,” Individuals’s Pleasure With Alive and Properly, on “Take Your Masks Off,” and Luke, on “Balloon.” Daniel Caesar is credited as a co-composer on “St. Chroma” and “Tomorrow.”

Tyler, the Creator led into Chromakopia with a string of noirish, self-directed movies: “St. Chroma,” the Ayo Edebiri–that includes “Noid,” and “Thought I Was Useless.” Explaining the unconventional launch time early this morning, Tyler wrote on social media final week, “YOU CAN LISTEN TO IT WHEN YOU WAKE UP, YOU DONT HAVE TO DEPRIVE YOURSELF OF SLEEP FOR SOMETHING THAT IS GOING TO BE THERE WHEN YOU WAKE UP*.”

At a Chromakopia listening occasion in Los Angeles, Tyler linked the album’s themes to knowledge handed down from his mom, Rolling Stone studies. “Now that I’m 33, all that stuff is like ‘oh that’s what the fuck she was speaking about,” he mentioned. “‘Oh, I’m not the man I used to be at 20. Oh shit, individuals are getting older, of us having youngsters and households.’ All I’ve acquired is a brand new Ferrari, that does really feel type of bizarre. I’ve acquired a gray hair on my chest. Life is life. I simply needed to jot down about stuff I take into consideration after I’m dolo’ing.”’

Tyler will tour behind the album subsequent yr, with stops in three continents.