![]() ![]() Octagonecologyst as one of his favorite hip-hop records, and all of them are categorically unprintable. Many of these lyrics border on unlistenable, even for someone who reveres Kool Keith’s horrorcore landmark Dr. And when impersonating Dracula in “Transylvania,” Tyler barks a flurry of misogynistic lines that are sure to shock. “Radicals” stands out for its extreme chorus, in which the rapper exclaims, “Kill people, burn shit, fuck school,” in what must surely rank among music’s most provocative refrains of all time. Tyler’s most reprehensible lines are reserved for the more insouciant tracks, usually when he’s detached from the subject matter. “Nightmare” is arguably Goblin’s most honest stream-of-consciousness rant, where a four-minute frenzy against his newfound fame is topped off with “I ain’t even killed myself yet, and I already want my life back.” His estranged father is once again the focal point of his most personal tirades: On the title track, he bellows, “Competition missing like that nigger my mom fucked/He still hasn’t called me yet…but that’s a whole fucking different argument,” while on “Nightmare” he sobs, “I’m six-five, about to fucking cry about another guy.” Tyler also discusses the impact of his fast track to superstardom, bemoaning the vacuous nature of life as a celebrity and mourning the loss of his youth. In Goblin’s more intimate moments, the 20-year-old prodigy wears his heart on his sleeve and exorcises his demons with unnerving candor. This façade works to give the album gravity and context, but one gets the impression that there’s more than meets the eye with this illusory relationship. The material visits some truly dark and troubled places, and Tyler’s prose is eerily mesmerizing from start to finish.Īs with Bastard, Goblin is framed by exchanges of dialogue between Tyler and his fictional therapist, whom Tyler voices himself. If you can manage to stomach his debauched musings (the album is marinated in misogyny and bigotry), it’s impossible not to be awestruck by Goblin. And, moreover, it’s every bit as outrageously brilliant. ![]() Goblin is just as disturbed and twisted as Tyler’s debut. His new album, Goblin, is a much larger platform for Tyler’s polemical rants, and it will likely be the mainstream’s first taste of the OFWGKTA sound. His self-released and entirely self-produced 2009 album, Bastard, made waves for its shock value but also boasted some genuinely inspired moments that went some way toward vindicating his crew’s cult following. Whatever bits you cull for your stance, Goblin's a blessing, in the form of a dandy-era reprieve helping restore opinion to rap.As the mouthpiece and figurehead of Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All, the teenage hip-hop outfit that’s courted controversy and well-nigh governed the blogosphere for the better part of two years, Tyler, the Creator is facing down an especially large degree of expectation surrounding his first major-label release. No, you chill! Like the creepy shrink narrator, it's all characterization or, "Don't fucking blame me, white America," says Tyler on "Radicals." For real though, Goblin is as funny ("Boppin Bitch"), down-to-earth ("Golden"), fearful and open ("Goblin") as it is juvenile (again, "Boppin' Bitch"), regressive ("Bitch Suck Dick") and maddeningly repetitive. Um, Tyler needs to chill with the rapey, calling girls bitches, anti-gay content. Obvious, try and conjure Def Jux-y and The Love Below-era Andre 3000-type vibes. Goblin has the Neptunes/Eminem/Wu-Tang Clan/Necro written all over it. Here's how that debate might play out: Goblin's 18 tracks stretch the runtime too long or MOAR sullen, squandering opuses! Tyler's too whiny, his content too repetitive and entry-level aggro or maybe his rambling, profane, gross-out verses are just prodigiously groomed. Tempering expectations with output is mad hard but the praise and pans help parse the intense, weird, largely self-produced (minus Left Brain's "Transylvania") record. For all the supposedly unanimous publicity tailing the L.A.-based troupe around the overzealous, troll-y, cache-cashing Internet, Goblin is hella divisive. Published Goblin is the post-implosion sophomore record from Odd Future's charismatic lead bully, Tyler, the Creator. ![]()
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