Welcome to Listening Habits, a column where I share the music I’ve been fixated on recently.
It feels like every few years Tyler, the Creator does something that leads to everyone re-litigating his past as an angry 4-Chan-adjacent troll who used to rap a bunch of murder and rape lyrics, and tweet racist shock humor. It’s almost a tradition at this point when people who only know Tyler from his post-edgelord pivot are confronted with the raps that made him famous in the first place. Rarely does Tyler show any remorse for his early stuff. It’s usually the opposite. Tyler tends to treat his past trolling and ugly jokes as just that, jokes, and you’re the idiot for taking it so seriously.
