HIPHOPDX Tyler, The Creator
- 1x Grammy (Best Rap 2020 — IGOR)
- 2x No. 1 albums (IGOR + CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST)
- 2x platinum albums (Flower Boy + IGOR)
- 23x Billboard Hot 100 hits
- Won Best New Artist at the 2011 MTV VMA’s
- Founded the clothing company Golf Wang in 2011
- Launched the Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival in 2012
- Produced two TV shows: Adult Swim’s Loiter Squad and VICELAND’s Nuts + Bolts
- Collaborated with Converse on shoe and clothing collections
- Created an original song for a Coca-Cola advert in 2021
- Produced for ScHoolboy Q, Mac Miller, Solange, Earl Sweatshirt, Westside Gunn, Snoh Aalegra + Kali Uchis
No. Tyler, The Creator has never been married.
Yes. Tyler, The Creator has won 1 Grammy Award so far. He won Best Rap Album in 2020 for IGOR. He has been nominated a total of 3 times.
Tyler, The Creator started making beats at the age of 12. He co-founded the Odd Future collective in 2007 and released his first album Bastard in 2009.
No. Tyler, The Creator doesn’t have any children.
Yes. Tyler, The Creator famously ate a cockroach before throwing it up in his 2011 video “Yonkers.” He told Interview magazine, “It’s, like, no subliminal messages or secret meanings or anything. I just personally think the shit would look really cool, so I did it … He was a nice cockroach. His name was Nissan.”
No, not really. Although the collective has never officially disbanded, Odd Future members (including Tyler, The Creator, Earl Sweatshirt and Frank Ocean) have gone their separate ways since the mid-2010s.
Yes. Tyler, The Creator self-produced all seven of his albums. He has also produced songs for other artists such as Solange (“My Skin My Logo”), ScHoolboy Q (“Big Body”), Mac Miller (“O.K.”), Earl Sweatshirt (“Whoa”) and Westside Gunn (“Party Wit Pop Smoke”).
Tyler, The Creator was born in Ladera Heights, California to a Nigerian father with Igbo ancestry and an American mother of mixed African-American and European-Canadian descent.