#Tyler the creator wolf movie#

' So now I’m speedin’ and tryna drive away from the fact / That she was right, so I triple left, tryna double back / The streets are filled with some clues / Like how I ain’t notice that? / Fuck it, I seen some familiar stuck in the cul-de-sac / I pull up, get out, what up? I wanna help / But what you want for some, some n*ggas / Really don’t want for themself / Now do I stay? Do I go? That’s my dilemma / And traffic is picking up, if I don’t leave I’ma get stuck / So I speed off, we talk barely and it seems awkward / And I heard through some words that you’re off it / I got too much drive, don’t wanna steer off path / And crash and get distracted.'Īs Flower Boy’s journey comes to an end on “Enjoy Right Now, Today,” we hear a car park up and a door slam shut. If that’s a stretch, there’s no doubt about the first verse on “Pothole,” in which Tyler literally takes us on a car ride down the bumpy intersection where friendships become fraught by success: The Can/Sonic Youth sample on “Foreword” ticks away like that of an idle engine. “Where This Flower Blooms” races by with screeching “ skrrt!” ad-libs and sounds of a speeding car, Frank Ocean leaning out of the window like The Joker. But there are moments when the album alludes to being the soundtrack to a car journey-one with twists and turns, peaks and valleys, and plenty of stunning scenery. Unlike Wolf, Flower Boy doesn’t continue the Camp Flog Gnaw storyline, nor does it follow any sort of narrative-driven plot.

#Tyler the creator wolf movie#

TC asks Wolf about Samuel at the end of the album, he shrugs and says, “Nah, but if I seen that n*gga I woulda killed him.” Perhaps if Tyler’s Wolf movie actually happened, the story would’ve received the dramatic finale it deserved. The love triangle leads to a crazed Samuel chasing after Wolf like Jack Nicholson in The Shining, but the ending is rather ambiguous and anticlimactic. Wolf, a new kid at the camp played by Tyler, pursues a girl he has a crush on named Salem, who just so happens to be the girlfriend of Samuel, a camp veteran and drug dealer also played by Tyler. 'My goal with this album was to shut the fuck up and let all the features be the leaders,” Tyler told Jerrod Carmichael.Īs the conspiracy theorists will tell you, Wolf follows a loose storyline set at the fictional Camp Flog Gnaw (also the name of Tyler’s annual carnival in L.A.). Rex Orange County soars for extended periods on “Foreword” and “Boredom,” Estelle’s angelic vocals give “Garden Shed” its wings, while “Dropping’ Seeds” might as well be a Lil Wayne song.

From the slinky jazz of “Pothole” and Disney-fied R&B of “See You Again” to the Soul Train-worthy “911,' which flips The Gap Band’s “ Outstanding,' Flower Boy is rooted in the fertile soil from which Wolf sprouted, only it blossoms even more spectacularly: its production more textured, more expansive and able to wreak havoc with a straight face (“Who Dat Boy,” “I Ain’t Got Time!”)Įven Tyler’s collaborative approach on Wolf’s “Treehome95,” a soulful, bridge-laced gem that put Coco O and Erykah Badu’s stunning vocals center stage, is a distinct feature of Flower Boy.

These influences, along with the likes of The Gap Band, Justin Timberlake and, of course, Pharrell, also clearly shaped the sun-kissed sound of Flower Boy.