Tyler, The Creator at the Forum: a goblice of chaos looking for himself
Tyler, The Creator has always been traveling. From the furious beginnings with the future ODDs, in which the role of A chaos agenta “Goblin”, like the title of his first solo album of 2011terrible and disturbing, the Californian artist has never stopped digging inside himself, as also shows his latest album “Chromakopia”, released in 2024, in which The disorder that takes you behind he turned once again into a mix of Alternative rap with soul, jazz, r & b and noise rock influences.
A naive Crooner
His concert-event scheduled at the Assago Forum, Open by Paris Texas and Lil Yachty, which once again puts Italy on the most important live hip hop map in the worldis the photograph of its transformation: today Tyler is a naive Crooner, who prefers the angry physicality of the beginning A fluid and elegant movement almost to Michael Jacksonsometimes still suddenly broken and disturbed, but always calibrated, never out of place. At the forum proposes A sumptuous and scenically grandiose live, between containers, raised bridges, headlights, language languages and more intimate secondary stagesconfirming an exceptional performer who, however, it has no real generational hits known beyond the circle of his loyal audience.
Masks
Through several alter-ego and disguises, for over fifteen years, Tyler has been looking at the mirror: The first mask worn is the last in order of time, it is the real one of “Chromakopia”also present in the cover of the concept album, with which the artist, dressed with a uniform and with a typical African cut, faces The theme of growth. The great writing “Chromakopia”, surrounded by green lights, opens: Tyler checks on stage, it is above the cassoni as a port area. It moves sinuously, it seems made of water, in short circuit with the rigidity of the military dress. There is only him in the spotlight. No DJs, no band. It is magnetic. Each movement cuts the air. This theatricality is the real strength of the live, as well as an overflowing interpretative and energy side.
The scene of “Drive”
In “Rah Tah Tah”, “modestly”, The second best rapper of Los Angeles is declared after Kendrick Lamar, in the distorted and tribal “noid” explores paranoia and anxieties“In Darling, i”, speaks of ambitions. With the warm and dented “Sticky”proposed by a raised catwalk over the parterre and capable of turning on broken dances and Poghi, with a very road language, Tyler draws up a manual to do what you want. This is the case: it can go from furious and vulgar phrases to very deep and moving dives into the feelings. And vice versa. He is a spitted bar artist and melodic hooks. His songs, of which he claims to have written the lyrics and edited the productions, are planets in constant collision. This elf of Los Angeles is like the legendary rude scene in “Drive” of RIFN: in a few minutes Ryan Gosling goes naturally from kissing carefully Carey Mulligan to massacring violence of the fans violently. Not everything he has made is on fire and really original, but he must be recognized, with his contaminated rap and bastard, the merit of having transformed his career into a work of art designed to express himself, To always sneak, also sly and with tactics, why not, in directions other than those imagined by the public and the market. It is also an icon of style, having also influenced the fashion sector, and freedom, because it is perceived as a name yes mainstream, but independent in the choices.
The turntable
The set dedicated to “Igor” of 2019, masterpiece album With which Tyler won a Grammy, he is one of the brightest moments of live. With this album, after being accused for years of homophobia for his provocative texts, he left everyone speechless: the entire album, in fact,, It puts a homosexual love story in the centerbetween pistols and revenge. At this point of the show, the artist gets rid of everything, shows himself for what he is, simply dressed. It is located in the center of a stage B, a living room where there is a turntable that uses, with a nice scenic effect, to launch the various tracks. Among these, the pop ballet “Earfquake”which is sung at the top of the fans. There is also a moment of tension due to a guy who uses The pepper spray: It is Tyler himself, before he is removed, who stops everything and asks him: “What the fuck are you doing?”. It starts again: its sound worlds are always restless, in constant encounter-clash. “Lumberjack” and “I Thought You Wanted To Dance”, who sprout out of “Call Me If You Get Lost” of 2021once again testify to the passage, almost with a sudden head-to-head, from rapped tightened to hot sounds and in this case reggae.
The way home
After another spectacular moment on suspended catwalkthe concert reports Tyler on the main stage where a further part dedicated to “Chromakopia” flows and beyond. “See You Again”, taken from the 2017 “Flower Boy”, is one of its most famous traces and describes a dreamlike love, one half of the elusive heart. After the dazzling “New Magic Wand” and “Balloon”, which in the study version sees the collaboration of Stella Doechii, the concert ends with “I Hope You Find Your Way Home”. Tyler wonders if we will ever be able to find the way home, and then disappear like a fantasmto. And continue traveling, hardly looking for between the folds of that chaosinside and outside of himself, something that he really looks like.
Scaletta:
St. Chroma
Rah Tah Tah
Noid
Darling, i
I killed you
Judge Judy
Sticky
Take your mask off
Tomorrow
Igor’s Theme
Earfquake
A Boy Is a Gun*
THANK YOU
The Think
Yonkers
Tron cat
She
Tamal
Rusty
Ifhy
Lumberjack
I Thought You Wanted To Dance
Dogtooth
Sorry Not Sorry
Who dat boy
Wusyaname
Thought I Was Dead
Like Him
See you again
New Magic Wand
Balloon
I Hope You Find Your Way Home
