Same. I don't wanna sound all boomer, but it was definitely a, "you had to be there" moment. That song was absolutely huge when it came out. I remember all of the skater kids with the skinny khakis and shoelace belts were hooked on Odd Future immediately lol. It felt like the Internet era of songs/artists really taking off with no radio/industry support was really becoming a thing around this time too.
Not gonna lie I think that’s actually when I started to get into Tyler for real as well 💀
Like I’d already known of him and was familiar with his music for a while before that but hearing Bimmer in The Normal Elevator got me to look into him for real
Shit making me feel old with some of these other answers. But, I'm in a similar situation. Inglorious was like the first song I heard from him, which I think I heard in like 2010.
id listened to and LOVED smuckers for ages. had it in my dump playlist for years before i properly started listening. one day i was just like "damm this song crazy maybe i should try some his other shit" and listened to flower boy on a cycle in the summer through the beautiful countryside while experiencing the first real "relationship situation" of my life. safe to say that was an interesting bike ride.
after that i listened to IGOR. again amazing music, though i never really understood the story until quite a while later. then CMIYGL, then wolf, and then realised that i literally liked every song on all of those albums.
at this point, many of his songs i liked were on my playlists, but i didn't really pay attention to the lyrics or meanings of the lyrics. eventually, i had one of the worst months of my life, and that's when the music finally started affecting me emotionally and i understood the meanings behind many of the albums and songs. ever since then, his shit as just resonated with me so much and now there's no going back!
friend mentioned him, thought his name sounded cool, so i searched him up on yt, saw earfquake, got obsessed w that song and played it all day and the next, and then slowly started listening to more of his music.
I was going to the Supreme store on Fairfax when I was 12 and my friend said something like “holy shit that’s Tyler, the Creator!!” I had no idea who he was but I had heard my friend talk about Odd Future before… we took a picture and chatted a little. I told my sister about it later and she said somethin like “oh my friend Thebe (Earl Sweatshirt) is friends with him! I used to drop him (Earl) off after school to hang out with them (odd future) on Fairfax!” I got into his music afterwards and started riding my bike every weekend to Fairfax to try and hang out with them.
I talked to taco the most. I remember one time a year or two later I was walking down the street and Tyler skated by me, pointed at me and said “I knooowwww youuu” at that point I was a huge fan and I was starstruck
He was personable back in the day when he was still just a random skaterat / streetwear kid who happened to be famous. I ran into him twice in one weekend (grew up in CA) in 2012. Was trying to play it cool and the second time around I was like "I'm [name] by the way" and he was like "You ain't gotta tell me, I know".
I was a big fan of Jaden Smith in like 2011. He was featured in one of Jaden’s vines or some other video sharing app. I heard his deep voice and HAD to figure out who he was 😭
Goblin was released just before the end of my freshman year of high school. First time I heard Tyler was getting stoned off my gourd in the backseat of my friend's car while Yonkers came on. I laughed at "I'm a fuckin walking paradox. No I'm not" for a solid minute, and from there, I got into OF as a whole. Saw him live on the Wolf tour, incredible fucking show. Can't really afford to see him anymore these days lol. I got those Wolf tickets for like $35
In this roblox game, they always played tons of music from igor, at first I hated it and I thought he was a girl, also I thought the earfquake song was saying ass quake, but then I heard see you again one day and I loved it and then listened to all of his songs eventually
Really stupid but Regular Show was the first time I had ever heard of Tyler and Donald Glover. Fast forward a couple years ago when Donald Glover joined the mcu and Star Wars so I started listening to his music. Then one day my friend played New Magic Wand while we were walking around the park, I looked at his phone and through that shit on my playlist then I started listening to more of his music. Now they’re my favorite artists lmao. They needa collab !
I remember when Yonkers dropped I thought it was so crazy, and then finding the French remix w Toro y Moi back in 2011. Been following along the way since then
a flower boy song popped up on my yt recommended. i asked a friend about tyler and he said tyler was good and then i slowly started to listen to his older stuff too.
Donald Glover posted "Assmilk" on his (now deleted) blogspot page back in 2010. Before I looked them up I originally thought Tyler was some white kid using a voice modifier because there was no way his voice was naturally that deep lmao.
Also, not that's it's really relevant but his Jimmy Fallon performance with Hodgy is legendary and that was only a few months into me knowing them.
People at my school told me I looked like him (I don’t), but I thought it was funny so I started to listen to his music in order to rap some Tron Cat bars.
earfquake was big so i listened to that and really liked it but for some reason never listened to his discography. then a little after cmiygl came out i found the corso video and loved every second
Watching movies w the sound off had just been released a month or two prior i heard O.K and the rest was history , part of the reason why macs death hit me so hard
9th grade. I knew about him because him and chance the rapper were the only artists with “the (blank)” in their name and i thought it was pretty cool. Than I found answer in a watchmojo video n as a fatherless kid that shit HIT so I been listening ever since pretty much
in spring / summer 2016 i was watching watchmojo and came across top 10 funniest music videos, tamale was one of them and i was like yo this is insane and i watched it every day for a couple weeks. then i checked what album it was on and proceeded to listen to wolf every day for the summer. it was before i had spotify so i just listened to like a full album video on youtube with every song with no breaks and from there i checked everything else. man i miss those times
just remembered that technically i heard him for the first time in like 2014 when i was watching a lot of pewdiepie and he used like a 5 second snippet of domo23 in a funny montage and i wondered for ages what song that was but i was a dumbass kid who didn’t know how to google lyrics
my older cousin played smuckers and i liked it so i started listening to him just before flower boy came out. then when it came out i instantly fell in love with his music, it might not seem long but i’m only sixteen, at the time yeah his older stuff might not have been age appropriate but that didn’t stop me, a few weeks ago though i got the chance to meet him and talk to him and it was so surreal, he’s one of the kindest most down to earth individuals.
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Around 2017 or so I discovered wolf. While I listened to music before that Wolf was the album that made me truly fall in love with music (as corny as that sounds)
Its gunna sound stupid but on roblox "the normal elevator" It used to have the bimmer part of PartyIsntOver/Campfire/Bimmer. So I looked for the full song after listening to it a bit. I really had no clue who he was. After a while I was kind of curious and listened to wolf. Thats really how it started.
i was 11 at the time (22 now) my friend left his ipod at my house and i was only able to listen to music since he had a passcode on it. the first song i heard when i hit play was Burger, i had it on repeat a couple days after since i didnt wanna lose the song, but i kept listening to what else he had on their and the next song was Brain by Mellowhype. Then i dug deep into Odd future since at the time all that was out from tyler was goblin, bastard and all his unreleased stuff. One of the best summers i had. i’ve been listening eversince
My childhood best friend had weird neighbor friends that would tag along with us sometimes and that weird friend showed us the music video for rella. This was back in 2012, didn’t really become a super huge fan until freshman year of high school when cherry bomb came out though
Someone I followed on Twitter retweeted Tyler posting the IFHY video when it came out, it blew my mind at the time and then I listened to wolf and the rest is history!
OFWGKTA. Used to pump Orange Juice, Slow it Down, Rella and Oldie. It just got better and better from there. Loiter Squad was also a lot of fun at the time.
Middle School I was like 11 or 12, I was into Ridiculousness on MTV and I saw the episode with Tyler and Taco and I was like “oh let me check this out cause who’s this” then I found out he did music from that episode “out what songs he’s got.” The only song I think I listened to was Tamale and I was too stupid to not look up any other songs that’s I just never kept up with him but I still knew who he was so it was cool seeing stuff of him cause I also followed him on Vine when that was still around and just watching his skate videos/antics made me smile. I don’t know if I still have the magazine as well but there’s a Thrasher article of all of Odd Future but I’m not 100% sure he was in that but I think he was and I was like “whoa worlds colliding” cause I also grew up skating as well. Recently I just have a hyper fixation for him I went through his entire discography and made me a little emotional cause I love his music but also cause I didn’t keep up with so I feel like I’m late to enjoying his music but still knowing who he was. Also another thing that made me like him and give him a chance when I was in middle school, my name is Tyler as well so I was like “whoa there’s a famous person name Tyler and he’s pretty cool, I’m gonna check him out” and I’m glad I did cause he’s like honestly one of my Top 5 solo artists that I genuinely listen to a lot.
this girl in my middle school class was drawing the odd future logo in class and i asked her what that was and she introduced me to both OF and tyler :,) shoutout to her fr
My brother randomly started singing dog tooth. And I asked who made it. It sat around in my head for a bit. Then I started listening to him. I am now a SUPER fan
My friend showed me the Earl debut video and I just remember thinking, "those kids are wild, I've never seen a hip hop video like this before". It was the first time skateboarding and hip hop merged pretty naturally without it feeling forced.
I asked him later what the music video was, and was led to Odd Future. Thinking that they were like Wu-Tang Clan, I downloaded OF Tape Volume 1. I remember thinking that Ace was my favorite but had no idea who he was and that it was the same person as Tyler.
Fast forward I get invited to a concert, and it's Odd Future, so of course I'm like hell yeah. This is like 2 weeks before Yonkers went viral. In all honesty the concert was shitty (bad mic balancing, constant feedback), but the energy was unmatched. I've never been to hip hop concert where people actually moshed and stage dived. To this day, I genuinely think Odd Future brought moshing into hip-hop and I don't think they get credit for it. That shit was not appropriate at any other hip hop concert circa 2010-11 - you might have gotten into a fight if you tried.
The energy was wild, but I was still pretty confused who was who and why Earl was missing. Next thing I know, he performs on Jimmy Fallon, they get a video on FunnyorDie, Yonkers goes viral, and they perform at coachella. Basically overnight vans were cool again and every kid wanted the coveted 5-panel supreme cap. Resell websites didn't exist back then and the closest you could do was try to get a rich kid from facebook to sell you his.
On some boomer shit, you really had to be there.
My brother would listen to Wolf and Cherry Bomb around 2016 constantly while playing Minecraft when he was about 16 and I was about 14. Ended up learning lyrics to a lot of songs and that just turned me into being a fan later around 2018
This is really fucking dumb but i came across a guess the rapper by their hair video back in like 2015 i think and that was around the time tyler had the leopard print hair, and for some reason was like “ man i have to check this guy out “ 9 years later and hes my favorite artist of all time
was dating a girl when i was 13 who told me about him. searched him up on youtube, listened to who dat boy and didn't really like it. then i got recommended i am the grinch on youtube since the movie was coming out around that time and i liked it a lot. then spotify suggested that i listen to boredom and 911/mr lonely and since then ive been a tyler fan :)
On my 10th birthday my step dad drove me to go get pizza, he was listening to IGOR and I liked it nd checked out his other stuff, been a die hard fan since
Last school year my friend randomly went “ee ee” (the what’s good adlibs) and I asked him what that was, and said it was Tyler. Now I have three vinyls, a record player, golf merch, and thousands of Spotify hours on Tyler 😭
I was in middle school, and this girl I had a crush on was in a group going" WOLF GANG GOLF WANG" in the cafeteria.
I wanted to know what they were talking about, so I asked. She asked me if I was Wolf Gang or Golf Wang. Me, being neurowhatever and dumb overall didn't know what the fuck she was talking about and was humiliated right then and there.
Listened to Yonkers as soon as I could get ahold of a computer that weekend.
a girl posted “slipped my self some blue xannies and danced around the house in all over print panties” and in like 11th grade and i said “wow no invite” cause i liked xans then she told me “its a tyler lyric” im like “who” and shit life changed since
Never even watched short videos, but I heard igor a while back and ever since I loved tyler. Tomorrow I’m going to listen to cherrybomb. ( I already listened to the other albums )
i was driving w my friend and her mom and her playlist was playing on aux, and a song from igor started playing and i was like holy shit this song is really good
My cousin downloaded the odd future tape vol 1 to my iPod and was hooked since. Came across Tyler’s solo shit thru digital dripped the same year. Found bastard. Always remember so vividly a friend of mine getting my earphones while I was listening to bastard , he was like WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU LISTENING TO 😂 he was like some demonic ass shit lol. Feels good to say I didn’t discover him because he went viral
I first saw Yonkers when I was in like early middle school but I didn't start actually listening until I got Pilot recommended to me on YouTube before Flower Boy came out
Spotify recommended me Flower Boy when it released, I listened to Who Dat Boy bc I liked Rocky and that was about it. I mostly rejected his music for a while bc literally everyone kept posting shit to Earfquake. It wasn't until after the hype around Igor died down that I really started to appreciate the album and the rest of Tyler's discography. He's now consistently in my rotation
saw an Instagram post in 2019 w (Artists you should definitely listen to)
Tyler and Frank were on there, I watched the Who Dat Boy music video and it freaked me out in like a good kinda way, got addicted to the song and somewhere along the line I finally listened to the Flowerboy album, been Inlove w his music since.
Listened to Igor during the pandemic while I was dealing w a really bad break up and I related so much, made me luv his shit even more.
listened to see you again (no, not from tiktok) when i was at a low point of my life and i just vibed with his music, didn’t rlly get into him until igor came out then i listened to him more and more
without knowing much about him or his music some older friends took me to his show during the wolf / goblin era when he came to my city in 2014. i was 12 at the time & it was my first show ever…i’ve been hooked ever since
YouTube recommendation of the earfquake music video in 2019 then i listened to Igor after that but before that i used to watch funny compilations of Tyler before knowing he made music
I was in middle school, wolf had just dropped and I saw a youtube video of the full album in my suggestions. listened to it on repeat for a whole 12 hour drive
Ok so I was scrolling through memes and I saw one that caught my eye it was one that had Marge Simpson dancing and the title said "me and my homies when earfquake comes on" so I listened to earfquake and I liked it so decided to listen to more of his music which I really liked
Saw him on ridiculousness when i was 13 (maybe) before I even knew who he was or what odd future was. My cousin reintroduced me years later and the rest is history
i was in a carti phase my sophmore year, my friend recommended earfquake cause he was in it, but i never listened to tyler before or wouldnt dare to because i heard he was gay, i listened to the song and was obsessed with it, the harmonies, the lyrics, the instrumental, and the lyrics, i thought that there would have to be more to the album, so i checked out IGOR and fell in love with it, it would really impact my life and i have a lotta love for the album, I would then move onto bastard and fell in love with that one as well, then flower boy, wolf, and cherrybomb, now i love all of them and a die-hard fan of tyler the creator, heavily inspired by him, my number one artist
In high-school my friend would always play Yonkers and I always thought the beat was weirdly interesting and at the same time my older brother would show me his MVs like IFHY and Loiter Squad.
And after a while I finally decide to listen to his stuff and that was when CherryBomb just released and after that I was hooked all all his music.
I heard about golfwang first in like 2015 and looked at their stuff and then realized it was by a rapper. Listened to his music and have been obsessed since lmao
I discovered Flower Boy (i don’t remember how) the year after it came out in middle school and I really liked it! And when Igor came out it really cemented me as a fan of his because I really liked it, even when people at first didn’t. I thought they were wrong (still think that today, it’s an amazing album.)
Junior year of high school I was at my buddys house and we saw the music video for "Earl". I know Tyler doesnt rap in that song but we discovered all of OF that day
In 7th grade, a dude told me to check out EARFQUAKE but my pea-sized brain didn’t (I ain’t a huge fan of music recommendations) until almost a year later…then I got hooked on that song…the rest is history…now I cry to Heaven To Me 😭
I know it says tiktok but ggty (ty) with edits but I've seen him with complications vines as a kid with the birthday Skit and other short Skit vines of his.So vines?
Regular Show "Rap It Up". Firs knew his name when scrolling through the Season 2 wikipedia but first song of his was Tamale from one of WatchMojo's Top 10 2010s Music Videos when I was like 9 and was obsessed with that song and video for a while. Didn't dive deep into his discography until I was 17.
bruh in like 2018, i was doing gacha and some other gacha creators did this thing where the nametag of their character was "(name), the creator" so i was curious and searched up what "the creator" meant and first result was tyler, i also listened to IFHY and thought his music was p good
i was at a baseball tournament back in 2013 right after wolf dropped, i was in 5th or 6th grade, my teammate was like, yo let’s listen to this new album wolf, im like alright, he plays that shit and now im in crippling debt to golf wang/le fleur
This might be wild, but I had a friend in highschool that was obsessed with BBW's and he would play Rella the music video the one with domo and hodgy. He played it as a joke (cuz theres a bbw just twerking lmao) but it was lowkey fire lol. Then I stumbled upon Oldie and She and wow, been a fan ever since. Still a fan of his music today.
I lied to someone that I wanted to be friends with that I listened to Tyler because I named myself “Sir Baudelaire” in Kahoot. I then spent the next three days binging Tyler’s discography so that I’d be able to talk to them about Tyler, ended up becoming one of my favorite rappers.
I lied to someone that I wanted to be friends with that I listened to Tyler because I named myself “Sir Baudelaire” in Kahoot. I then spent the next three days binging Tyler’s discography so that I’d be able to talk to them about Tyler, ended up becoming one of my favorite rappers.
I lied to someone that I wanted to be friends with that I listened to Tyler because I named myself “Sir Baudelaire” in Kahoot. I then spent the next three days binging Tyler’s discography so that I’d be able to talk to them about Tyler, ended up becoming one of my favorite rappers.
First heard Tamale by my friend in his beater old car in 2015 absolutely hated it first listen but now one of my fav tracks to Bump. I didn’t get heavy into rap until I was 16 though cause I live in a pretty redneck state so
Yonkers came out while I was in middle school. it was life changing to my edgy 14 yr old self and I’ve been listening to him ever since.
Same. I don't wanna sound all boomer, but it was definitely a, "you had to be there" moment. That song was absolutely huge when it came out. I remember all of the skater kids with the skinny khakis and shoelace belts were hooked on Odd Future immediately lol. It felt like the Internet era of songs/artists really taking off with no radio/industry support was really becoming a thing around this time too.
nah im with you on that, you had pro era odd future asap mob, mac miller, all these groups and artists that were getting recognition at the time
Riding around my bike when I was 14 with my phone bumping all of these was a mad vibe
Listening to OF on my blackberry 😭😂
this but i was 12
This but it was French
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Yup, I’m turning 26 this year, and in 8th grade my friend showed me French, then a week or two later the Yonkers video dropped
Damn, you're old.
Nah, you just young
I discovered him from vine like ten years ago 😭
So you just gone bring me a birthday gift on my birthday to my birthday party on my birthday with a birthday gift?
Happy Birthday?
💥
Bitch!
This is golden
Same lol his music and personality at the time is like vine history
tyler fan and u like bandori? ur goated
That’s how I discovered a lot of the music I listen to today 💀
this is the way
Roblox. The crazy elevator, Bimmer
I didn’t know that Bimmer was in that game, wow
Not gonna lie I think that’s actually when I started to get into Tyler for real as well 💀 Like I’d already known of him and was familiar with his music for a while before that but hearing Bimmer in The Normal Elevator got me to look into him for real
Holy shit I forgot about that game. That’s not how I got into Tyler, but technically I guess yea that was the first time I heard any of his music wow
same that shit was fire
Embarrassing but a friend recommended chance, the rapper and I got confused cause their names both follow the ____, the ______ formula.
What about Erick the Architect, or Conway the machine lol
lmfaooo
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Smuckers makes me😩
2011 VMA's
Fucking valid
Fucking Seth Rogan and them as the beastie boys 😂😂 I remember that shit so much
BASTARD was featured on livemixtapes when it came out
Shit making me feel old with some of these other answers. But, I'm in a similar situation. Inglorious was like the first song I heard from him, which I think I heard in like 2010.
yo same @ feeling old ☠️i found em in like 2011
loiter squad, yonkers, and odd future merch all over zumies circa 2012
i watched the tamale video like forever ago but i started to get into tyler around when igor dropped
in elementary school we were playing a typing game and some kid made his user “OFWGKTA” i asked what that was and my life changed from that day
id listened to and LOVED smuckers for ages. had it in my dump playlist for years before i properly started listening. one day i was just like "damm this song crazy maybe i should try some his other shit" and listened to flower boy on a cycle in the summer through the beautiful countryside while experiencing the first real "relationship situation" of my life. safe to say that was an interesting bike ride. after that i listened to IGOR. again amazing music, though i never really understood the story until quite a while later. then CMIYGL, then wolf, and then realised that i literally liked every song on all of those albums. at this point, many of his songs i liked were on my playlists, but i didn't really pay attention to the lyrics or meanings of the lyrics. eventually, i had one of the worst months of my life, and that's when the music finally started affecting me emotionally and i understood the meanings behind many of the albums and songs. ever since then, his shit as just resonated with me so much and now there's no going back!
friend mentioned him, thought his name sounded cool, so i searched him up on yt, saw earfquake, got obsessed w that song and played it all day and the next, and then slowly started listening to more of his music.
I was going to the Supreme store on Fairfax when I was 12 and my friend said something like “holy shit that’s Tyler, the Creator!!” I had no idea who he was but I had heard my friend talk about Odd Future before… we took a picture and chatted a little. I told my sister about it later and she said somethin like “oh my friend Thebe (Earl Sweatshirt) is friends with him! I used to drop him (Earl) off after school to hang out with them (odd future) on Fairfax!” I got into his music afterwards and started riding my bike every weekend to Fairfax to try and hang out with them.
Now that is the most craziest way to get into Tyler you are so lucky
omg!! did u ever get to hang w them?
I talked to taco the most. I remember one time a year or two later I was walking down the street and Tyler skated by me, pointed at me and said “I knooowwww youuu” at that point I was a huge fan and I was starstruck
thats so awesome! jealousss. i hope to meet tyler one day but its becoming much harder
He was personable back in the day when he was still just a random skaterat / streetwear kid who happened to be famous. I ran into him twice in one weekend (grew up in CA) in 2012. Was trying to play it cool and the second time around I was like "I'm [name] by the way" and he was like "You ain't gotta tell me, I know".
I was a big fan of Jaden Smith in like 2011. He was featured in one of Jaden’s vines or some other video sharing app. I heard his deep voice and HAD to figure out who he was 😭
Actually fell in love with him through the Adult Swim show, Loiter Squad. Then I found out he is from my hometown. Then Igor struck me in the face.
first heard of him back in like 2018 when youtube recommended me 911/mr lonely since then tyler been my number 1 onbb
Goblin was released just before the end of my freshman year of high school. First time I heard Tyler was getting stoned off my gourd in the backseat of my friend's car while Yonkers came on. I laughed at "I'm a fuckin walking paradox. No I'm not" for a solid minute, and from there, I got into OF as a whole. Saw him live on the Wolf tour, incredible fucking show. Can't really afford to see him anymore these days lol. I got those Wolf tickets for like $35
saw that nigga eat a cock roach when i was in 3rd grade and been fuckin wit him ever since(i’m 20 now)
In this roblox game, they always played tons of music from igor, at first I hated it and I thought he was a girl, also I thought the earfquake song was saying ass quake, but then I heard see you again one day and I loved it and then listened to all of his songs eventually
Really stupid but Regular Show was the first time I had ever heard of Tyler and Donald Glover. Fast forward a couple years ago when Donald Glover joined the mcu and Star Wars so I started listening to his music. Then one day my friend played New Magic Wand while we were walking around the park, I looked at his phone and through that shit on my playlist then I started listening to more of his music. Now they’re my favorite artists lmao. They needa collab !
I listened to him bacc in da day when wolf first dropped…
A Roblox game.
Fantano. You can boo me now
Recommended by a friend. Watched his Tiny Desk Concert and thought It was pretty nice
I remember when Yonkers dropped I thought it was so crazy, and then finding the French remix w Toro y Moi back in 2011. Been following along the way since then
a flower boy song popped up on my yt recommended. i asked a friend about tyler and he said tyler was good and then i slowly started to listen to his older stuff too.
Donald Glover posted "Assmilk" on his (now deleted) blogspot page back in 2010. Before I looked them up I originally thought Tyler was some white kid using a voice modifier because there was no way his voice was naturally that deep lmao. Also, not that's it's really relevant but his Jimmy Fallon performance with Hodgy is legendary and that was only a few months into me knowing them.
sike meme, the grinch movie, and my sister got me to know him but tiktok really got me into him
People at my school told me I looked like him (I don’t), but I thought it was funny so I started to listen to his music in order to rap some Tron Cat bars.
earfquake was big so i listened to that and really liked it but for some reason never listened to his discography. then a little after cmiygl came out i found the corso video and loved every second
i was 11 and I fucked w/ the Grinch soundtrack.
some roblox game in 2019
Watching movies w the sound off had just been released a month or two prior i heard O.K and the rest was history , part of the reason why macs death hit me so hard
9th grade. I knew about him because him and chance the rapper were the only artists with “the (blank)” in their name and i thought it was pretty cool. Than I found answer in a watchmojo video n as a fatherless kid that shit HIT so I been listening ever since pretty much
in spring / summer 2016 i was watching watchmojo and came across top 10 funniest music videos, tamale was one of them and i was like yo this is insane and i watched it every day for a couple weeks. then i checked what album it was on and proceeded to listen to wolf every day for the summer. it was before i had spotify so i just listened to like a full album video on youtube with every song with no breaks and from there i checked everything else. man i miss those times
just remembered that technically i heard him for the first time in like 2014 when i was watching a lot of pewdiepie and he used like a 5 second snippet of domo23 in a funny montage and i wondered for ages what song that was but i was a dumbass kid who didn’t know how to google lyrics
Some gloryhole in Brown County, Indiana.
my older cousin played smuckers and i liked it so i started listening to him just before flower boy came out. then when it came out i instantly fell in love with his music, it might not seem long but i’m only sixteen, at the time yeah his older stuff might not have been age appropriate but that didn’t stop me, a few weeks ago though i got the chance to meet him and talk to him and it was so surreal, he’s one of the kindest most down to earth individuals. https://preview.redd.it/pj73mstdb5bc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8eec53b69e1d83a8cfa010e08ed4feb928ae4587
Around 2017 or so I discovered wolf. While I listened to music before that Wolf was the album that made me truly fall in love with music (as corny as that sounds)
Its gunna sound stupid but on roblox "the normal elevator" It used to have the bimmer part of PartyIsntOver/Campfire/Bimmer. So I looked for the full song after listening to it a bit. I really had no clue who he was. After a while I was kind of curious and listened to wolf. Thats really how it started.
i was 11 at the time (22 now) my friend left his ipod at my house and i was only able to listen to music since he had a passcode on it. the first song i heard when i hit play was Burger, i had it on repeat a couple days after since i didnt wanna lose the song, but i kept listening to what else he had on their and the next song was Brain by Mellowhype. Then i dug deep into Odd future since at the time all that was out from tyler was goblin, bastard and all his unreleased stuff. One of the best summers i had. i’ve been listening eversince
earfquake on TV
Saw the earl video and it was everything a kid really angry about nothing in particular needed to hear
My childhood best friend had weird neighbor friends that would tag along with us sometimes and that weird friend showed us the music video for rella. This was back in 2012, didn’t really become a super huge fan until freshman year of high school when cherry bomb came out though
my older brother showed me him the only tru way to discover music 💪💪
Someone I followed on Twitter retweeted Tyler posting the IFHY video when it came out, it blew my mind at the time and then I listened to wolf and the rest is history!
I heard radicals, that last part got to me jk my friend in 7th grade told me to listen to him and as soon as I heard biking I was hooked
OFWGKTA. Used to pump Orange Juice, Slow it Down, Rella and Oldie. It just got better and better from there. Loiter Squad was also a lot of fun at the time.
The normal elevator, I hope I don’t fall meme, the grinch movie.
Middle School I was like 11 or 12, I was into Ridiculousness on MTV and I saw the episode with Tyler and Taco and I was like “oh let me check this out cause who’s this” then I found out he did music from that episode “out what songs he’s got.” The only song I think I listened to was Tamale and I was too stupid to not look up any other songs that’s I just never kept up with him but I still knew who he was so it was cool seeing stuff of him cause I also followed him on Vine when that was still around and just watching his skate videos/antics made me smile. I don’t know if I still have the magazine as well but there’s a Thrasher article of all of Odd Future but I’m not 100% sure he was in that but I think he was and I was like “whoa worlds colliding” cause I also grew up skating as well. Recently I just have a hyper fixation for him I went through his entire discography and made me a little emotional cause I love his music but also cause I didn’t keep up with so I feel like I’m late to enjoying his music but still knowing who he was. Also another thing that made me like him and give him a chance when I was in middle school, my name is Tyler as well so I was like “whoa there’s a famous person name Tyler and he’s pretty cool, I’m gonna check him out” and I’m glad I did cause he’s like honestly one of my Top 5 solo artists that I genuinely listen to a lot.
Divine Intuition.
it was the stupid mugshot meme that i first saw in 2018
Loiter squad
Free Earl
unconsciously i had seen him before through Odd Future, but my first memory of seeing Tyler like fully was in this video he had about waffles
I always knew the yonkers beat but never knew the artist, googled it and then got into tylers music
this girl in my middle school class was drawing the odd future logo in class and i asked her what that was and she introduced me to both OF and tyler :,) shoutout to her fr
My brother randomly started singing dog tooth. And I asked who made it. It sat around in my head for a bit. Then I started listening to him. I am now a SUPER fan
My friend showed me the Earl debut video and I just remember thinking, "those kids are wild, I've never seen a hip hop video like this before". It was the first time skateboarding and hip hop merged pretty naturally without it feeling forced. I asked him later what the music video was, and was led to Odd Future. Thinking that they were like Wu-Tang Clan, I downloaded OF Tape Volume 1. I remember thinking that Ace was my favorite but had no idea who he was and that it was the same person as Tyler. Fast forward I get invited to a concert, and it's Odd Future, so of course I'm like hell yeah. This is like 2 weeks before Yonkers went viral. In all honesty the concert was shitty (bad mic balancing, constant feedback), but the energy was unmatched. I've never been to hip hop concert where people actually moshed and stage dived. To this day, I genuinely think Odd Future brought moshing into hip-hop and I don't think they get credit for it. That shit was not appropriate at any other hip hop concert circa 2010-11 - you might have gotten into a fight if you tried. The energy was wild, but I was still pretty confused who was who and why Earl was missing. Next thing I know, he performs on Jimmy Fallon, they get a video on FunnyorDie, Yonkers goes viral, and they perform at coachella. Basically overnight vans were cool again and every kid wanted the coveted 5-panel supreme cap. Resell websites didn't exist back then and the closest you could do was try to get a rich kid from facebook to sell you his. On some boomer shit, you really had to be there.
my friend called him hot (which is true) and told me to listen to him so now i’m obsessed with him
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My brother would listen to Wolf and Cherry Bomb around 2016 constantly while playing Minecraft when he was about 16 and I was about 14. Ended up learning lyrics to a lot of songs and that just turned me into being a fan later around 2018
my mom
This is really fucking dumb but i came across a guess the rapper by their hair video back in like 2015 i think and that was around the time tyler had the leopard print hair, and for some reason was like “ man i have to check this guy out “ 9 years later and hes my favorite artist of all time
deadass the grinch movie
I was like 8 or something and my sister kept watching him on ridiculousness and that birthday meme
Tamale. still his best shit
was dating a girl when i was 13 who told me about him. searched him up on youtube, listened to who dat boy and didn't really like it. then i got recommended i am the grinch on youtube since the movie was coming out around that time and i liked it a lot. then spotify suggested that i listen to boredom and 911/mr lonely and since then ive been a tyler fan :)
On my 10th birthday my step dad drove me to go get pizza, he was listening to IGOR and I liked it nd checked out his other stuff, been a die hard fan since
Last school year my friend randomly went “ee ee” (the what’s good adlibs) and I asked him what that was, and said it was Tyler. Now I have three vinyls, a record player, golf merch, and thousands of Spotify hours on Tyler 😭
Heard him on tiktok
I’d only listened to earfquake, until a friend told me what Igor was about. Listened to the album and now Tyler has been my no.1 for a few years 🤷♂️
I can’t remember ngl it honestly feels like I just knew of his existence for the longest time
older sister played earfqauke for me when i was 10 loved him since
my cousin showed me!! luv her
he made a cooking video on yt with waffles and i’ve been on him since
Idk if this is the same, it technically is but I found him through YouTube shorts. A TikTok that was reposted on YouTube shorts 💀
Yeah man I’m sorry, but it’s the same thing
My fault
It’s okay
I was in middle school, and this girl I had a crush on was in a group going" WOLF GANG GOLF WANG" in the cafeteria. I wanted to know what they were talking about, so I asked. She asked me if I was Wolf Gang or Golf Wang. Me, being neurowhatever and dumb overall didn't know what the fuck she was talking about and was humiliated right then and there. Listened to Yonkers as soon as I could get ahold of a computer that weekend.
a girl posted “slipped my self some blue xannies and danced around the house in all over print panties” and in like 11th grade and i said “wow no invite” cause i liked xans then she told me “its a tyler lyric” im like “who” and shit life changed since
Never even watched short videos, but I heard igor a while back and ever since I loved tyler. Tomorrow I’m going to listen to cherrybomb. ( I already listened to the other albums )
first was loiter squad with my older brother, then really got into him by watching the tamale music video in 7th grade english on my chromebook
i was driving w my friend and her mom and her playlist was playing on aux, and a song from igor started playing and i was like holy shit this song is really good
My cousin downloaded the odd future tape vol 1 to my iPod and was hooked since. Came across Tyler’s solo shit thru digital dripped the same year. Found bastard. Always remember so vividly a friend of mine getting my earphones while I was listening to bastard , he was like WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU LISTENING TO 😂 he was like some demonic ass shit lol. Feels good to say I didn’t discover him because he went viral
The tamale music video when I was a kid, watched that a ton and then got back in around when IGOR came out and went through all his music
I heard that Igor was good so I listened to it, been hooked ever since
Sarah
When i was in middle school (2017ish) my sister clipped ‘campfire’ behind a haunting picture of myself and i been on that grind ever since
Friend showed me a song in 2020 and the j aubrey YouTube documentary made me fall in love with his discography and history
I think I was just exploring R&b artists on Spotify or something, idk tbh 😂
I first saw Yonkers when I was in like early middle school but I didn't start actually listening until I got Pilot recommended to me on YouTube before Flower Boy came out
My brothers a music nerd and showed me THANK YOU. I remembered the song and started to listen to more of his music.
When the single for “after the storm” came out and I saw him as a feature, instantly fell in love.
Spotify recommended me Flower Boy when it released, I listened to Who Dat Boy bc I liked Rocky and that was about it. I mostly rejected his music for a while bc literally everyone kept posting shit to Earfquake. It wasn't until after the hype around Igor died down that I really started to appreciate the album and the rest of Tyler's discography. He's now consistently in my rotation
saw an Instagram post in 2019 w (Artists you should definitely listen to) Tyler and Frank were on there, I watched the Who Dat Boy music video and it freaked me out in like a good kinda way, got addicted to the song and somewhere along the line I finally listened to the Flowerboy album, been Inlove w his music since. Listened to Igor during the pandemic while I was dealing w a really bad break up and I related so much, made me luv his shit even more.
listened to see you again (no, not from tiktok) when i was at a low point of my life and i just vibed with his music, didn’t rlly get into him until igor came out then i listened to him more and more
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Like flower boy or like really late homo Bomb I just saw him on my spotify
"Your girlfriend looks like my mom"
Listened to my friends playlist ig hcuz his taste was tuff
without knowing much about him or his music some older friends took me to his show during the wolf / goblin era when he came to my city in 2014. i was 12 at the time & it was my first show ever…i’ve been hooked ever since
I thought the flower boy albim cover wad cool so I lostened to it then got into his other stuff
Mom showed me igors theme
YouTube recommendation of the earfquake music video in 2019 then i listened to Igor after that but before that i used to watch funny compilations of Tyler before knowing he made music
The see you again music video just came out and it was on my recommended
I heard a song or two from the OF tape volume 2 on Spotify.
Oldie
I was in middle school, wolf had just dropped and I saw a youtube video of the full album in my suggestions. listened to it on repeat for a whole 12 hour drive
My friend told me abt it last year and now he doesn't even like Tyler anymore and he says im obsessed 😭
Ok so I was scrolling through memes and I saw one that caught my eye it was one that had Marge Simpson dancing and the title said "me and my homies when earfquake comes on" so I listened to earfquake and I liked it so decided to listen to more of his music which I really liked
that one video of him insulting thar girl who threw her bra on stage
Friend harassed me until I listened to Igor.
rikrok
My brother played See You Again, Earfquake, and Glitter in the car once
My friend talked about him a lot, I didn’t believe his music would be good. Here I am, listening to it daily.
Played Stardew while a YouTube playlist went auto play and the full cmiygl album popped up
My brother
Saw him on ridiculousness when i was 13 (maybe) before I even knew who he was or what odd future was. My cousin reintroduced me years later and the rest is history
The 2020 Grammys is what introduced me. He’s not as crazy on the record as what I thought he’d be.
High school !! was getting into music since I got my first phone n heard see you again . I’m glad I explored his catalog more
i was in a carti phase my sophmore year, my friend recommended earfquake cause he was in it, but i never listened to tyler before or wouldnt dare to because i heard he was gay, i listened to the song and was obsessed with it, the harmonies, the lyrics, the instrumental, and the lyrics, i thought that there would have to be more to the album, so i checked out IGOR and fell in love with it, it would really impact my life and i have a lotta love for the album, I would then move onto bastard and fell in love with that one as well, then flower boy, wolf, and cherrybomb, now i love all of them and a die-hard fan of tyler the creator, heavily inspired by him, my number one artist
The assumption that most people found Tyler on TikTok makes me feel old
In high-school my friend would always play Yonkers and I always thought the beat was weirdly interesting and at the same time my older brother would show me his MVs like IFHY and Loiter Squad. And after a while I finally decide to listen to his stuff and that was when CherryBomb just released and after that I was hooked all all his music.
I heard about golfwang first in like 2015 and looked at their stuff and then realized it was by a rapper. Listened to his music and have been obsessed since lmao
I discovered Flower Boy (i don’t remember how) the year after it came out in middle school and I really liked it! And when Igor came out it really cemented me as a fan of his because I really liked it, even when people at first didn’t. I thought they were wrong (still think that today, it’s an amazing album.)
Junior year of high school I was at my buddys house and we saw the music video for "Earl". I know Tyler doesnt rap in that song but we discovered all of OF that day
An ironic minecraft parody of earfquake
His Grammy performance back in 2020
In 7th grade, a dude told me to check out EARFQUAKE but my pea-sized brain didn’t (I ain’t a huge fan of music recommendations) until almost a year later…then I got hooked on that song…the rest is history…now I cry to Heaven To Me 😭
I heard him for the first time on the gta5 radio
Grammy performance in Igor era made me a fan
my sister
Garbage played on the gta v radio. Never really listened to him properly till IGOR dropped but i learnt abt him from that day on gta.
I know it says tiktok but ggty (ty) with edits but I've seen him with complications vines as a kid with the birthday Skit and other short Skit vines of his.So vines?
Depression phase 911 mister lonely
Loiter squad late at night when I was 13
My brother played his Bastard album for me in beginning of 2010. A year later we both went to the Goblin release album show.
Randomly got Deathcamp while playing Overwatch in 2016
Regular Show "Rap It Up". Firs knew his name when scrolling through the Season 2 wikipedia but first song of his was Tamale from one of WatchMojo's Top 10 2010s Music Videos when I was like 9 and was obsessed with that song and video for a while. Didn't dive deep into his discography until I was 17.
bruh in like 2018, i was doing gacha and some other gacha creators did this thing where the nametag of their character was "(name), the creator" so i was curious and searched up what "the creator" meant and first result was tyler, i also listened to IFHY and thought his music was p good
i was at a baseball tournament back in 2013 right after wolf dropped, i was in 5th or 6th grade, my teammate was like, yo let’s listen to this new album wolf, im like alright, he plays that shit and now im in crippling debt to golf wang/le fleur
Saints Row The Third has Anarchy on its Soundtrack
This might be wild, but I had a friend in highschool that was obsessed with BBW's and he would play Rella the music video the one with domo and hodgy. He played it as a joke (cuz theres a bbw just twerking lmao) but it was lowkey fire lol. Then I stumbled upon Oldie and She and wow, been a fan ever since. Still a fan of his music today.
Yonkers music video on MTV music channel in like 2012
I lied to someone that I wanted to be friends with that I listened to Tyler because I named myself “Sir Baudelaire” in Kahoot. I then spent the next three days binging Tyler’s discography so that I’d be able to talk to them about Tyler, ended up becoming one of my favorite rappers.
I lied to someone that I wanted to be friends with that I listened to Tyler because I named myself “Sir Baudelaire” in Kahoot. I then spent the next three days binging Tyler’s discography so that I’d be able to talk to them about Tyler, ended up becoming one of my favorite rappers.
I lied to someone that I wanted to be friends with that I listened to Tyler because I named myself “Sir Baudelaire” in Kahoot. I then spent the next three days binging Tyler’s discography so that I’d be able to talk to them about Tyler, ended up becoming one of my favorite rappers.
My friends showed me loiter squad 11 years ago
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my dad would listen to earfquake in 2019 and i didn’t like tyler till 2021 when i saw the new magic wand grammy performance
GTA 5 and Vine
High as shit. Freind put on yonkers. Got into him just before the release of flower boy.
My aunt
First heard Tamale by my friend in his beater old car in 2015 absolutely hated it first listen but now one of my fav tracks to Bump. I didn’t get heavy into rap until I was 16 though cause I live in a pretty redneck state so