S4E1 - Tyler the Creator: Flower Boy

Dissect

Cole Cuchna

Arts, Music, Society & Culture

4.9 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Our season long examination of Flower Boy by Tyler, the Creator begins with a biographical episode on Tyler’s upbringing in Los Angeles, the genesis of Odd Future, and Tyler’s discography leading up to the release of Flower Boy. Listen to Dissect on Spotify and enjoy episodes a week early + exclusive bonus content. For 60 free days of Spotify Premium, visit spotify.com/promo/dissect. Follow @dissectpodcast on Twitter and Instagram. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.6	approval. This episode contains music with explicit lyrics.
0:33.0	Listener discretion is advised.
0:35.0	On February 10th, 2011,
0:40.0	19-year-old producer rapper Tyler the Creator uploaded to YouTube a music video for a new song entitled
0:47.0	Yankers.
0:48.0	I'm a fucking walking pair docks.
0:51.0	No I'm not a threesms with a triceratops
0:54.0	Reptard rapping as a mock and death
0:56.0	The high contrast black and white video begins with Tyler alone on a stool
1:00.0	rapping into camera
1:02.0	20 seconds in Tyler brings to eye level his left hand
1:05.5	to reveal a live cockroach.
1:07.6	The cockroach crawls across his hands and arm.
1:10.6	The camera slowly zooms in on Tyler's face as he stares intensely at the cockroach.
1:16.0	He then puts the cockroach in his mouth and chews. Younggers was the majority of the world's introduction to Tyler the Creator.
1:29.0	The video went viral, amassing millions of views in just weeks, propelling Tyler and his Los Angeles
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