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NFR Podcast

The Most Essential Tyler, The Creator Songs

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Music, Music Commentary

4.9716 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, we’re recommending the top 20 most essential Tyler, The Creator songs. We spoke about songs such as 911/Mr. Lonely, Smuckers, Massa & more and explained what made these highlights essential to Tyler’s catalog.


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List of Songs Discussed

•Yonkers

•AssMilk

•Garden Shed

•Smuckers

•Colossus

•A Boy is a Gun

•& More

Transcript

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0:00.0

What's so cool about being a Tyler fan is that I feel like everyone's had a different

0:03.5

entering point for when they started appreciating his music.

0:06.5

Example for myself, it was back in 2013 with Wolf.

0:09.6

For yourself, I know it's 2017 with Flower Boy.

0:12.7

But when you have to look at the grand scope of things, Tyler has a huge catalog that

0:16.9

could be appreciated from any sort of standpoint.

0:19.9

Then when I was going back in for the notes of this podcast, it was very interesting because

0:24.4

it took me back down like a trip of memory lane where I was like, man, it's been a while

0:28.7

since I've bumped this.

0:29.7

And this is low-key essential to his rotation and if you want to get into his music.

0:33.8

So in today's episode, guys, we're going to be going through the most essential Tyler's songs. And he has a lot of projects, there's a lot of materials. So we're going to

0:42.1

be narrowing it down to, I believe, 20 songs today, right? Yeah, something along those lines.

0:45.6

So listen, guys, if you are enjoying the audio podcast, drop us a review five stars. If you do

0:50.1

enjoy the experience. And if you don't, well, just be honest. I mean, anything helps. But let's dive into this, bro. And let me ask you something, actually, before we dive in.

0:56.9

I think it's going to be an interesting question. What got you into his music, musically, if that makes sense to you?

1:02.4

What was the first thing that grabbed your ear from Tyler's sound where you're like, oh shit, like, I'm invested no. The first thing that grabbed me, it was probably, you know, one of the singles for

1:11.5

Flower Boy, if it was 9-11 Mr. Lonely or Hootab Boy, those were the songs where I was just

1:16.8

captivated by how layered his compositions were, how rich they were, and that's when I really

1:21.4

got to see how talented he was as just a curator, as someone that, you know, arranges

1:26.8

music.

1:27.4

But I think that Tyler

1:28.7

is the perfect artist for us to start this series of the most essential songs from a particular

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