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Listen to Frank Ocean’s official video for the newly mixed “Thinkin Bout You”

Syd tha Kyd’s vocals are something of a revelation on “Purple Naked Ladies”, but Syd and Matt need to determine a more fixed direction for their sound. While there are a few memorable tracks, the rest of “Purple Naked Ladies” tends to be a little scattergun.

I feel I should preface this review by admitting that I’ve been a Kanye West fan ever since I heard “Jesus Walks”, and while I don’t admire Jay-Z‘s musical prowess quite as much as that of his protege, I have mad respect for him as a rap legend. Both of them brought their A-game to the table this [...]

Something about summer always gets me thinking about songs that sound like summer, but I’m not the only one. Earlier today Tyler the Creator dropped his Summer Camp Mix on the Odd Future web site. The mix is full of tunes that just feel like heat rays beating down on you while you’re chilling on your backyard patio [...]

Theophilus London’s mixtape from a year or so ago was one of my hip-hop highlights from the past few years. The first rapper I’ve ever heard reference The Smiths, his outlook and style is in direct opposition to the dark nihilism of Odd Future, incorporating melodies, choruses and bright instrumentation into his beats. You’d never [...]

Click on the image to listen to Tyler, The Creator‘s album “Goblin” for free.

Click on the image to listen to the entire album for free.

Already out there, Tyler’s second album “Goblin” leaked a few days ago and songs are appearing all over the place in various forms. A few weeks ago he’d mentioned that the next single from “Goblin”, after “Sandwitches” and “Yonkers”, would be the song below, “She” featuring current mixtape maestro and OFWGKTA member Frank Ocean.  Where [...]

One of the primary criticisms about Tyler, The Creator/OFWGKTA is the vulgar and immature nature of the lyrics to their songs. In an interview of Tyler’s that I watched a few weeks ago he mentioned how this is permitted in other mediums like books, TV, and movies, where they can show/describe murder, rape, violence, insane [...]

Also playing at last night’s MTVu Woodie Awards was Odd Future’s Tyler, The Creator and Hodgy Beats for a Tellytubby backdropped, dwarf-starring mini-me, amped-up crowd-surfing mashup of “Yonkers” and “Sandwitches”. If you follow Tyler on Twitter then you might know he’s had a little mini-beef at a couple of Hip-Hop blogs, 2DopeBoyz and Nah Right. [...]

You know that dude who likes to pit two animals together and watch them fight, and then he records it and posts them to his site to the delight of the internet?  What’s that site called? Yeah that’s the one, Gorilla Vs Bear!  Anyway, the dude just dropped a remix that Toro Y Moi did [...]

I kinda feel like I’ve just been a part of something bigger than what I may fully realise at the moment. I’m only a recent fan of Tyler, The Creator and his OFWGKTA (Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All, or Odd Future for short) cohorts, but having seen some of their videos and heard [...]

“Time to scare white America”- OFWGKTA. Unless you’ve been sitting under a rock or got that broke ass dial-up, I’m sure you’ve heard of the phenomena known as Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All. AKA the kids running around Los Angeles that frighten the shit out of you slash intrigue you. Odd Future is [...]