Tyler, The Creator wants fans to just enjoy the music.
On Monday, the 34-year-old responded to a tweet from @nfr_podcast that asked followers to pick either CHROMAKOPIA or his latest album, DON’T TAP THE GLASS, off the first listen. Tyler didn’t like that.
“yall gotta stop doing this. everyone tho,” he wrote.
“it hasnt been 10 hours, just let it be what it is. a fun short upbeat urgent braggadocious album to a diary post about abortion and hair and aging and whatever else i was crying about lol,” he added. “please just let it rock if you rock with it and if you dont then move the damn on lol.”
Tyler also explained the key to understanding his ninth album.
In a note shared to social media on Monday, Tyler said the 10-track project “was not made for sitting still.” Instead, “any type of movement is recommended to maybe understand the spirit of it,” he wrote.
Tyler dropped off his latest offering, DON’T TAP THE GLASS, on Monday instead of the typical Friday release. He employed that same strategy for his last project, 2024’s CHROMAKOPIA, in an effort to curb “passive listening.”
In a 2023 interview with Nardwuar, Tyler proposed that we return to Tuesdays as the industry standard for album releases.
“I know people think because of the weekend they can listen to stuff and the streams go up,” Tyler said at the time. “And the streaming people are like, ‘Oh, the streams go up on the weekend!’ But I think it’s a lot of passive listening, at parties or people get the time to go to the gym, so they’re not really listening.”
Last October, Tyler dropped off CHROMAKOPIA, leading him to land his third No. 1 debut on the Billboard 200 chart. The project boasted features from Lil Wayne, GloRilla, Sexyy Red, Doechii, Schoolboy Q, Daniel Caesar, and more.
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