Tyler The Creator | BTWF | UPDATED | Tyler Okonma Biography

Before Tyler, The Creator would break into the music scene as a member of the hip-hop collective Odd Future and create music that would later see him banned from the countries of the United Kingdom and New Zealand for multiple years. Before Tyler The Creator would strike out on his own as a rapper and recently land his first Number One spot on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart with his newest self-produced album “Igor”. Tyler the Creator has been making music since he was a kid, creating album covers and tracklists out of nothing more than paper and crayons. Despite not having a dad around growing up, nothing was ever going to stop Tyler from becoming a creative force, but it might surprise you to find out that for a long time, a whole bunch of people legitimately thought that Tyler was doing more harm than good in the world of music. When his hip-hop-skate collective, Odd Future debuted, people found their liberal use of antigay slurs as homophobic, which made corporations fearful about signing deals with Tyler, venues afraid to book him, and countries willing to ban him for a full five years for lyrics that were dangerous enough to be classified as a terrorist threat. Yikes. Over time though, Tyler has evolved and so has the world’s perception of him. Tyler gradually moved away from the viral controversy of his early music to more conceptual and ambitious music that he would make on his own. Slowly but surely, he began to overturn not only people’s opinion of his music but their very idea of who he was as a person.