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The Tyler Okonma cottage industry has thrived for 15 years, from the Wu-Tang-like ascent of OFWGKTA (for nostalgia's sake, let's spell it out: Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All) to his recent string of critical darlings, two of which (Igor and Call Me If You Get Lost) won the Best Rap Album Grammy. That's a career almost old enough to be sent to the boarding school where his cohort Earl Sweatshirt infamously spent time at 16, and nary a year of it has gone by without Tyler contributing something notable to rap culture.
2017's Flower Boy launched a vulnerable, R&B-influenced side of Tyler, the Creator that also reintroduced him as one of the genre's premier queer leading men after he initially used so many homophobic slurs for shock value that he was banned from entering the U.K. for a period. He's nowhere near ready to rest on his laurels, not with last year's ambitious Chromakopia, nor this surprise half-hour blast of electrodance unlike anything else in his restless catalog. The closest analogue is probably Vince Staples' great Big Fish Theory, a beats-first 2017 effort where Staples sounded off over two-step garage and got two very different legends (SOPHIE, Kendrick Lamar) on the same clanging, futuristic cut.
Don't Tap the Glass is more consciously retro and consciously a party record, though, with Zapp-style vocoder on "Sucka Free" and blocky Zulu Nation electro on the soon-to-be club staple "Sugar on My Tongue." His early irreverence also returns almost instantly: "I like dark-skinned bitches like my mama," he declares on the opening "Big Poe," which features contributions from his idols, the Neptunes, and a prominent Busta Rhymes sample.
This is easily Tyler's quickest, least indulgent record—just a lean, mean valentine to robotic synthesizers, with nine almost uniformly quick-tempoed jams and one pitched- and sped-down closer sung in a fake-Pharrell falsetto that sounds like Igor tightened up. Tightened and lightened up would be a plus for almost anyone's ninth album. © Daniel Aaron/Qobuz
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Chad Hugo, Composer, Lyricist - Kamaal Fareed, Composer, Lyricist - Sandy Linzer, Composer, Lyricist - Trevor Smith, Composer, Lyricist - Dominick Lamb, Composer, Lyricist - Denny Randell, Composer, Lyricist - Malik Taylor, Composer, Lyricist - Jonathan Greenwood, Composer, Lyricist - James Jackson, Composer, Lyricist - Ali Muhammad, Composer, Lyricist - Pharrell Williams, Composer, Lyricist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - NILE RODGERS, Composer, Lyricist - BERNARD EDWARDS, Composer, Lyricist - Mike Bozzi, Mastering Engineer - Bryan Higgins, Composer, Lyricist - Tyler Okonma, Composer, Lyricist, Executive Producer, Recording Engineer - Tyler, The Creator, Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - NealHPogue, Mixing Engineer - Zachary Acosta, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Sk8brd, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Michel Tyler, Composer, Lyricist - Shye Tzur, Composer, Lyricist - Tyler, The Creator & Pharrell Williams feat. Sk8brd, AssociatedPerformer
(P) 2025 Columbia Records, a Division of Sony Music Entertainment, as exclusive licensee
Mike Bozzi, Mastering Engineer - Vic Wainstein, Recording Engineer - Tyler Okonma, Composer, Lyricist, Executive Producer, Recording Engineer - Tyler, The Creator, Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - NealHPogue, Mixing Engineer - Zachary Acosta, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Ron "T.nava" Avant, Talkbox, Vocoder
(P) 2025 Columbia Records, a Division of Sony Music Entertainment, as exclusive licensee
Mike Bozzi, Mastering Engineer - Vic Wainstein, Recording Engineer - Tyler Okonma, Composer, Lyricist, Executive Producer, Recording Engineer - Tyler, The Creator, Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - NealHPogue, Mixing Engineer - Zachary Acosta, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Iván Marcelo, Assistant Recording Engineer - Ron "T.nava" Avant, Talkbox, Vocoder
(P) 2025 Columbia Records, a Division of Sony Music Entertainment, as exclusive licensee
Tommi Eckart, Composer, Lyricist - Mike Bozzi, Mastering Engineer - Tyler Okonma, Composer, Lyricist, Executive Producer, Recording Engineer - Tyler, The Creator, Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - NealHPogue, Mixing Engineer - Zachary Acosta, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Nicholas Deinhardt, Composer, Lyricist
(P) 2025 Columbia Records, a Division of Sony Music Entertainment, as exclusive licensee
Mike Bozzi, Mastering Engineer - Tyler Okonma, Composer, Lyricist, Executive Producer, Recording Engineer - Tyler, The Creator, Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - NealHPogue, Mixing Engineer - Zachary Acosta, Assistant Mixing Engineer
(P) 2025 Columbia Records, a Division of Sony Music Entertainment, as exclusive licensee
Ray Parker, Jr., Composer, Lyricist - Mike Bozzi, Mastering Engineer - Vic Wainstein, Recording Engineer - Tyler Okonma, Composer, Lyricist, Executive Producer, Recording Engineer - Tyler, The Creator, Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - NealHPogue, Mixing Engineer - Zachary Acosta, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Iván Marcelo, Assistant Recording Engineer - Ron "T.nava" Avant, Talkbox, Vocoder
(P) 2025 Columbia Records, a Division of Sony Music Entertainment, as exclusive licensee
Todd Shaw, Composer, Lyricist - Mike Bozzi, Mastering Engineer - Tyler Okonma, Composer, Lyricist, Executive Producer, Recording Engineer - Tyler, The Creator, Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - NealHPogue, Mixing Engineer - Zachary Acosta, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Tommy Wright III, Composer, Lyricist
(P) 2025 Columbia Records, a Division of Sony Music Entertainment, as exclusive licensee
Mike Bozzi, Mastering Engineer - Vic Wainstein, Recording Engineer - Tyler Okonma, Composer, Lyricist, Executive Producer, Recording Engineer - Tyler, The Creator, Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Carlos Morgan, Composer, Lyricist - Madison McFerrin, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - NealHPogue, Mixing Engineer - Zachary Acosta, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Isiah Pinkney, Composer, Lyricist - Garrett Duncan, Assistant Recording Engineer - Madison Grace McFerrin, Composer, Lyricist - Robert F. Gordon, Composer, Lyricist - Tyler, The Creator feat. Madison McFerrin, AssociatedPerformer
(P) 2025 Columbia Records, a Division of Sony Music Entertainment, as exclusive licensee
Jonathan Lewis, Composer, Lyricist - Chris Henderson, Composer, Lyricist - A. Smith, Composer, Lyricist - Brittany Carpentero, Composer, Lyricist - Venetia Lewis, Composer, Lyricist - Mike Bozzi, Mastering Engineer - Jarques Usher, Composer, Lyricist - Vic Wainstein, Recording Engineer - Tyler Okonma, Composer, Lyricist, Executive Producer, Recording Engineer - Tyler, The Creator, Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - NealHPogue, Mixing Engineer - Zachary Acosta, Assistant Mixing Engineer - YEBBA, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Danforth Webster, Assistant Recording Engineer - Alphone Smith, Composer, Lyricist - Tyler, The Creator feat. Yebba, AssociatedPerformer
(P) 2025 Columbia Records, a Division of Sony Music Entertainment, as exclusive licensee
Mike Bozzi, Mastering Engineer - Vic Wainstein, Recording Engineer - Tyler Okonma, Composer, Lyricist, Executive Producer, Recording Engineer - Tyler, The Creator, Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - NealHPogue, Mixing Engineer - Zachary Acosta, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Collin Clark, Assistant Recording Engineer
(P) 2025 Columbia Records, a Division of Sony Music Entertainment, as exclusive licensee
Album review
The Tyler Okonma cottage industry has thrived for 15 years, from the Wu-Tang-like ascent of OFWGKTA (for nostalgia's sake, let's spell it out: Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All) to his recent string of critical darlings, two of which (Igor and Call Me If You Get Lost) won the Best Rap Album Grammy. That's a career almost old enough to be sent to the boarding school where his cohort Earl Sweatshirt infamously spent time at 16, and nary a year of it has gone by without Tyler contributing something notable to rap culture.
2017's Flower Boy launched a vulnerable, R&B-influenced side of Tyler, the Creator that also reintroduced him as one of the genre's premier queer leading men after he initially used so many homophobic slurs for shock value that he was banned from entering the U.K. for a period. He's nowhere near ready to rest on his laurels, not with last year's ambitious Chromakopia, nor this surprise half-hour blast of electrodance unlike anything else in his restless catalog. The closest analogue is probably Vince Staples' great Big Fish Theory, a beats-first 2017 effort where Staples sounded off over two-step garage and got two very different legends (SOPHIE, Kendrick Lamar) on the same clanging, futuristic cut.
Don't Tap the Glass is more consciously retro and consciously a party record, though, with Zapp-style vocoder on "Sucka Free" and blocky Zulu Nation electro on the soon-to-be club staple "Sugar on My Tongue." His early irreverence also returns almost instantly: "I like dark-skinned bitches like my mama," he declares on the opening "Big Poe," which features contributions from his idols, the Neptunes, and a prominent Busta Rhymes sample.
This is easily Tyler's quickest, least indulgent record—just a lean, mean valentine to robotic synthesizers, with nine almost uniformly quick-tempoed jams and one pitched- and sped-down closer sung in a fake-Pharrell falsetto that sounds like Igor tightened up. Tightened and lightened up would be a plus for almost anyone's ninth album. © Daniel Aaron/Qobuz
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 10 track(s)
- Total length: 00:28:27
- Main artists: Tyler, The Creator
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Columbia
- Genre: Hip-Hop/Rap
(P) 2025 Columbia Records, a Division of Sony Music Entertainment, as exclusive licensee
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