There is a bit of Radiohead in Tyler’s new album, The Creator
That makes us Johnny Greenwood In the new album of one of the most fit rappers of the US rap scene of these years? Tyler, The Creator championship a song by the Radiohead guitarist in one of the songs contained in “Don’t Tap The Glass “his latest album, who arrived after just nine months from the previous “Chromakopia”, with which Tyler Gregory Okonma – this is the real name of the artist, born in 1991 – has consecrated himself as one of the great protagonists of the rap to stars and stripes. The song in question is titled “Roked”: Greenwood He recorded him in 2015 together with the Israeli musician Shye Ben Tzur and the Indian ensemble The Rajasthan Express.
“Roked”, a song in which Indian influences meet a dance base and almost hip hop rhythmics (“This album is not made to stay still, but to dance, guide, run and make any type of movement recommended to understand its spirit. Only at full volume”), it was part of an entire album engraved by the radio leader of the Radioheads together with the Israeli artist and the Indian group, “Junun“, Produced by him and mixed by Nigel Godrichalready a trusted collaborator of the “Creep” band. The recordings of that album, which took place in the suggestive location of Mehrangarh, in the Indian region of Rajasthan, were also the subject of filming and by the material a documentary directed by Paul Thomas Anderson was drawn from the material, which came out in conjunction with the publication of the album. Tyler, The Creator has “Roked” championship at the end of “Big poe“, The track that opens” Don’t Tap the Glass “, Surprisingly announced two days ago and released today on streaming platforms. The track boasts the presence of Pharrell Williamsalways a lighthouse for Tyler, The Creator.
That of the song of Greenwood, Shye Ben Tzur and the Rajasthan Express is not the only sampling present in the ten tracks of “Don’t Tap the Glass”. The same “Big Poe” presents a sampling, as well as “Roked”, but also of “Pass The Courvoisier Part II” Of Rhymes envelope with the same Pharrell e Diddy. On social media, someone already points their finger at Tyler, The Creator for somehow paying homage to the rapper, producer and entrepreneur who ended up in the center of a media storm In the USA on charges of having managed a large -scale criminal organization aimed at satisfying his need for “sexual gratification”, unless he was judged as not guilty for the two indictment of sexual traffic and for criminal association. “I’m take care of you” includes a sample of “Knuck If You Buck” by Crime Mob.
The choices of Tyler, The Creator as for Sampling are never discounted. Among the samples present in the trail of “Chromakopia”, which was a real work halfway between hip hop and jazz, there were pieces of Barry White And James Brown. Of the voice of “You’re the First, The Last, My Everything” Tyler resumed “Vivrant Thing”, a song that Barry White composed together with Kamaal Fareed and which was led to success by Q-Tip, paid homage to “Darling, I”. James Brown, on the other hand, recovered “Get Up Offa That Thing”, a song that Mr, Dynamite led to success in 1976, championship in “Sticky”.
