Tyler the Creator of OFWGKTA is warped and magnificent. This has a bit of a Gravediggaz feel. – Gabriel, San Francisco

Shock-monger Tyler The Creator goes all in for riveting rap polemics—misogyny, tomfoolery, psychiatric ranting, and general anti-PC entropy—but his one constant is simply thought provocation. The spitter of alt hip-hop act OFWGKTA dropped his basement recording Bastard in late 2009 like lyrical shrapnel, a shrink chair diatribe that endeared itself to lovers of cerebral rap. That one went boom. His major label debut Goblin magnifies in intensity and raw verbiage, and if you don’t believe it, check out the video of the single “Yonkers” and prepare to have your cage rattled.

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