The Potential to Become a Tyler the Creator Fan?

So I'm about to go to sleep due to having to wake up for work in the morning.

I just downloaded about 30 news songs, ranging from My Morning Jacket to the Need for Speed Most Wanted Soundtrack (I really need to go in on these retro reviews that I've been wanting to do... got like 4 I wanna do... not to mention my Lost Adventures of Mark Wins... there's a new one coming... maybe... if I decide to release the details of said adventure.)

And just before I go to bed, something in my blog reading list comes up about Tyler the Creator.

I also remember hearing something about this Tyler Creator guy during the VMA buzz and how he somehow won some kind of award even though I never heard of the guy (granted, I stopped listening to modern hip hop and radios for some time, so take my inability to know who Tyler is with a grain of salt.)

Whatever the case may be, I decided before going to bed to randomly hear a random song that this guy has done...

And I stumbled across the following...

Something about this song... I like it...

Now, with this song, it might just be bias due to it being relatively kinda sorta similar to a situation that I'm kinda sorta in, but there were things in this song still to be felt regardless... such as the style of the song. And the pure oddness of the video itself.

And thus, I am... intrigued.

I shall look into this Tyler the Creator guy... see if he's worth my time... if the rest of his material is as oddly refreshing as this seems to be, then I just might become a Tyler the Creator fan.

Like, off the bat, he's definitely different from Wayne, Drake, and whomever else is considered "hot" right now, and since what is considered "hot" right now is mostly stuff I loathe, and this is different, and I like exploring that which is different, I might be on to something here...

Welp, that's all. Good night.

Just Heard Marvin's Room...

This song has been hyped up by sooooo many people on FaceBook...

But I finally heard it today as a request from my brother to my other brother on our makeshift sound system.

Wow.

That song is garbage.

Now the crazy shit is how the way this song delivered is garbage, but the lyrics themselves are actually not so bad. It's just that the delivery of the lyrics... what the fuck...

And this is when I think to myself... maybe Marvin's Room isn't the only song like this? Maybe there are a number of songs in current day hip hop where the lyrics are amazing but are simply put to terrible beats. Like that "A Millie" beat.... Jada Kiss did a freestyle to the A Millie beat, and I love Jada, but like... I can't stand that beat. At all. It's just one of many lazy ass "look at me, I'm in a studio, let me put some pieces of noise together and call it a beat" type of beat.

This is the thing that really blows my mind though....

This video is the only reason I actually knew the lyrics at one point. The lyrics are terrible... if, you know, you're dead ass serious about this shit. But this guy was just having fun pulling this off, and I find it hilarious. And good. The way the guitar goes with the "uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!"

I dunno... whatever... maybe I'm just weird.

The point is.... Marvin's Room is a garbage ass song. But them lyrics... totally relate to them. I wish someone else would take that song and do it better. Hell, Drake could do it better. I feel as though he actually has (or gives off the perception of*) talent.

* that's something that I'm going to need to explore at a later date...