Tyler, The Creator didn't intend to drop another album after CHROMAKOPIA 'for a VERY long time'
Tyler, The Creator initially wanted to take a break from making music after his 2024 LP CHROMAKOPIA.
Tyler, The Creator has admitted he thought CHROMAKOPIA would be his "last album for a VERY long time".
The 34-year-old star wasted no time following up the 2024 LP with his recently released ninth studio effort, Don't Tap the Glass, but it turns out he planned to take a hiatus from music before he was drawn back to the studio.
He explained to fans on Instagram: “I was planning on this being my last album for a VERY long time. Release it. Do the big tour. Go disappear and only pop out for movie roles. See what a life is like without work being top of mind. It’s hard tho, I love making things.
“I laugh to myself a lot because this album ended up taking me places the others didn’t. 15 years in; biggest it’s ever been. I’m in awe of the success. And what a beautiful tour! Love to the whole team! (sic)"
He told his followers: “It’s been a year since release, time is moving. To those who love this body of work, tell me about it. I hope it holds weight in your life. Thank you. What an incredible year.”
After CHROMAKOPIA dealt with some heavy topics, from his struggles with his hair to his relationship with his father, Tyler wanted to have "some fun" and cut the "deep s***".
Speaking recently to Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1, he said: "It was being silly, just fun again. Because CHROMAKOPIA was so like, for me... That I'm not saying it's the most mature, deep s***. Everyone has different lives. But for me, whether it's me talking about my relationship with my hair and how that's affected me, or me almost being a father last year, or the relationship that I have with my father now, just so many things that I decided to dive deep into. After the weight of that got off, I just wanted to be silly again.
"And, if you listen to the end of Rah Tah Tah, and the end of Noid, and some of Sticky, and even a I Hope You Find Your Way Home verse, just like low-key, my LA accent just really popped in through there. And I was just being silly, just having fun again. And I was like, 'Oh, for this, man, I just want to get back to that, no deep album cuts, no slow emotional s***, no f****** this is where my... I just want to be fun and say outrageous s*** and say s*** that... inside jokes that me and my friends laugh at, and just talk big fly s***. That was the goal. That was the main 100 per cent goal."
He continued: "Like, on there, I keep saying, 'Get your funky a** in that tub, b****.' I keep saying that because it's this funny video on Instagram I found of this little girl playing with her doll, saying it, and it's the funniest thing to me. And I'm like, 'Oh, that spirit was the base of the early stuff that I made.' And it was just fun doing that again, and not trying to be good, and precious, and make the most innovative music. Like, bro, over it. No intros, no outros, no bridges. Get to the f****** point. Get to the hook. Get to the verse. No beat switches, no f******... I'm over it, bro."
