While the content here is beige, Tyler’s position as the figurehead of the contrarian collective paints the material with an abrasive lacquer, creating an apathetic facade of being creatively challenging. Cherry Bomb is overwhelmed by invertebrate hype-rap baseless bars about Tyler’s various sexual escapades and egregious wealth. Instead, they’re tepid, tawdry, and filled with the typical uselessness of bling-era rap Even in moments where Tyler’s natural low-brow wit comes through, the vocal is mixed so far down in the track, it’s hard to tease out any content worth diving into. The content on Cherry Bomb isn’t the incisive stories of Wolf, or the idiosyncratic gore of vintage Odd Future. As one piece though, it’s difficult to jump from the velvety vibes of “FIND YOUR WINGS” to the digitally distorted disaster that is “CHERRY BOMB.” Tyler’s influences on production are so many, and so brutishly enacted, teasing out nuance is like trying to only taste the eggs in a birthday cake globbed with chocolate sprinkles, hot sauce, and sauerkraut. “SMUCKERS” has the disjointed kit and plinky keys ripe for raps, and “THE BROWN STAINS OF DARKEESE LATIFAH PARTS 6-12 (REMIX)” is the kind head-banging rap romp we’ve come to expect from Tyler. For the most part, I enjoy the production, but only song-by-song. Style jumps from jazzy and soulful, to dingy and distorted, to bratty and impish. Knowing this, I can’t help but wonder if his love for production was Cherry Bomb’s raison d’etre, since it obviously wasn’t rapping. In a 2014 interview with Larry King, Tyler confessed that he found rapping to be “not interesting” and that he was “pretty bored with it”. As big of a departure as Wolf was, Cherry Bomb is from Wolf. Though in 2013, with the release of Wolf, Tyler dropped the horror-core facade, in favor of a jazzier, more main-stream sound that capitalized on the snot-nosed braggadocio Odd Future does so well, while still leaving room for the best storytelling we’ve received from the rapper so far.
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Exploding onto people’s desktops with the infamous “Yonkers” music video, Tyler would go on to release two albums full of the pervasive, bludgeoned horror-core he would come to be known for, Yonkers and Bastard. 24 year old rapper/producer/writer, and founding member of the Odd Future hiphop collective, Tyler, The Creator is without a doubt, one of hip hop’s most controversial figures.