YMMV / Tyler, the Creator

• Awesome Music: While stuff like Wolf are still highly respected, around the time he began to expand beyond the dark imagery and focus on his own struggles and themes of relationships in Flower Boy, IGOR and CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST, Tyler began to establish himself far more than just an offensive rapper.
• Complete Monster: The Serial Killer in Tyler's "Garbage" is initially just an ordinary drug dealer who later found joy after killing a guy for trespassing his territory. Addicted to killing, he then goes on to commit numerous murders and slaughters a task force that tried to arrest him. He also keeps a number of victims alive in his house basement, rips out their arms and legs so that they wouldn't leave, and tortures them for his own amusement. It is also implied that he killed children or at least drugged them to the point where they are beyond saving.
• Contested Sequel: Cherry Bomb, see Vindicated by History below.
• Fountain of Memes: Almost everything Tyler does is memeable to a ridiculous degree.
• Growing the Beard: Flower Boy was the first album to gain pretty-much-unanimous critical acclaim from the mainstream, largely thanks to its Lighter and Softer lyrics and beats. The acclaim only grew with the Even Better Sequel follow-ups IGOR and CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST.
• Heartwarming in Hindsight: On the title track to Bastard, Tyler expressed his wish to win a Grammy with his mom attending the ceremony. Come 2020, he finally succeeded.
• He Really Can Act: Tyler's singing from Wolf onwards (when it's not Stylistic Suck, anyway)
• Jerkass Woobie: Especially in Wolf, when he is the most painfully aware and self-conscious about how he is perceived, still failing to find his father, and his relationships slowly burning out. However, he is still just as loud, obnoxious, and abrasive as ever, and frequently violent and misogynist for laughs.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • This mugshot of Tyler◊ from 2014 is rather popular due to Tyler's funny expression.
  • Him saying "So that was a fucking lie" is often used as a reaction to something that ends up unexpected (such as Mood Whiplash or a disappointing conclusion).
• Never Live It Down: Criticism of Tyler's previous lyrical content got to the point where pretty much every major paper review of Tyler's third album Wolf doted around the fact that he was still using the word "fag(got)". This greatly died down post-Flower Boy, though.
• Nightmare Fuel: So much that it had to get its own page.
• Paranoia Fuel: "She", which is from the perspective of a Stalker with a Crush. Doesn't help that Frank Ocean's hook makes the stalker's act extremely catchy.
• Questionable Casting: Tyler, fresh off Goblin's release, collaborated with The Game on the latter's track "Martians vs. Goblins." Tyler, at the time a goofy alt-rapper, and The Game, a usually dead-serious Gangsta Rap artist, are somewhat of an odd match.
• Signature Style: Tyler is known to make heavy use of deliberately cheap-sounding synthesizers and clunky beats, mixed with frequent, catchy uses of jazz chords and progressions, Minimalism, and elements of R&B and 90's Hip-Hop in his production.
• Vindicated by History: While Cherry Bomb sold well and had a number of official outlets going to bat for it, the initial public reaction to its experimental sound was mixed such that when Tyler looks back at that time, he only remembers "everyone hating [the album] so fucking much". However, the advent of time and Tyler officially releasing the album's instrumentals three years later have instigated a warming of public opinion, and now seeing online takes calling the album underrated if not one of Tyler's best efforts are quite easy to come by.

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