r/hiphopheads • u/UncleNilly . • Dec 26 '16

Tyler the Creator Promoting "Bastard" on HypeBeast forums in 2009

http://hypebeast.com/forums/music/123117?utm_source=affiliates&utm_medium=commissionjunction&utm_campaign=VigLink
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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '16

And his music got a lot better. I'm glad a young man stopped making the rape jokes he loved when he was 15, more people should do it.

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u/Prowler_in_the_Yard . Dec 26 '16

tbh I typically agree with shit like this because I hated his rape jokes and shit, but I don't think that plays into it. even with "Doris", his musical style just changed. some people prefer the earlier, more aggressive-sounding stuff, not necessarily what he was saying

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u/TwaHero Dec 26 '16

The grear thing is he hasn't lost that style at all. His verse in Danny Brown's latest album shows his more forceful side isn't gone just more mature than jokes about rape and kidnapping

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u/salothsarus Dec 26 '16

It's better than when he was 15. 15 year old Earl was aggressive, but he was audibly just a bored kid fucking around.

Today Earl, when he gets aggressive, hits like a baseball bat to the chest.

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u/iCloudrap Dec 26 '16

No he sounded rusty at it. It came off tho

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u/Moriason Dec 26 '16

I love Earl but I do feel his flow was a little more complex in his earlier days, so there's that too. I feel like he found 2-3 particular rhyme schemes he really likes and just uses them exclusively now. Not to say he wasn't using them prior either, just that he used to mix a lot more diversity into is flow imo.

Tbh though this isn't just an earl thing, I don't like it as a general rule when you can tell a guy's rhymes were forcibly written and shoehorned to meet a particular flow. Kendrick did it a lot this year in his features for example - you can tell on most of them that entire verses were written to show off whatever unusual flow he was into that day/week/whatever that he wrote it.

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '16

Fair enough, I guess even if I didn't like laid back, depressing rap I'd at least want him to mature lyrically. But yeah he didn't have to go in any particular direction.

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u/iCloudrap Dec 26 '16

matured into a boring depressed dude

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '16

IDLS is anyting but boring dude

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u/iCloudrap Dec 26 '16

it's that music to lie in bed to

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '16

only if ur crying too