Tyler, The Creator has confessed that his debut album Goblin wasn’t his best offering, even though many people considered it to be a ground-breaking project at the time.
During a lengthy sit-down with the Rap Radar Podcast, Tyler reflected back on his mindset as a 20-year-old who was focused on making a dent in the music game with his first project.
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“Goblin is fucking terrible,” the Igor rapper admits. “But I still love it. It’s an energy and an aura that it has. And hearing my wonky synths, and gross drums, and me not realizing I’m yelling on every song and saying the most wild shit is what got people there. It’s not about the music. If you were there, that energy and that aura and that air just cutting through what everyone else is doing is so important.”
He added: “It’s still some ones on there. I still think, ‘Yonkers,’ is awesome. ‘She’ is awesome. The first two versions of ‘Nightmare’ is ill, ‘Tron Cat’ is still awesome. ‘Analog’ is still cool, like there’s still a few things on there but people don’t know like, a lot of songs on that album were just like, random songs I recorded after Goblin that we kinda just, yeah here I got these songs.”
Check out the full interview below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHILuigMexc&t=5083s
At the time of Goblin’s release in 2011, HipHopDX gave the album a 4 out of 5 rating.
Aside from music, the Grammy Award-winning artist also shared a hilarious story about one of the “top four” coolest moments of his career being nearly ruined by Diddy’s son, who tried to flex alongside Tyler’s BMW on Instagram.
As the episode wrapped of Rap Radar wrapped, Tyler, The Creator decided to share a fun story about his experience attending JAY-Z’sRoc Nation Brunch this past February.
“Illest part of the Roc Nation Brunch, I went for three reasons. I always wanted to go just ’cause I never went,” Tyler said. “Two, I was curious what food they had there. And three, I wanted to see how many times I could be called ‘king.’ I counted nine.
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“And the illest part is Jay let me park my BMW right in the front. Everybody else had to shuttle. He let me park it right in front in the hills. Probably top four moments I’ve ever felt cool. Like, the textbook cool.”
He continued: “My homie sent me two weeks ago Christian Combs’ Instagram and these motherfuckers had a photo shoot with my car in front of the God damn Roc Nation! And I saw Christian last night and I shoulda told him, ‘N-gga, don’t sit on my God damn car!’ I like Christian, I’m just saying, but that was ill.”
