What Tyler, The Creator Is Really Like In The Studio: A Deep Dive

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Tyler, The Creator’s inventive course of is explored within the newest episode of HipHopDX’s “Deep Dive” YouTube collection — watch it beneath.

Delving into his eclectic influences, creative evolution and pure ardour for music, the 27-minute video sheds gentle on what the Grammy-winning multi-hyphenate is absolutely like within the studio, straight from the mouths of collaborators like Pharrell, Lil Wayne and Kali Uchis.

A true musician at coronary heart, Tyler’s inventive course of usually begins with the beat — extra particularly, chords. As he instructed Zane Lowe throughout a 2019 interview: “Chords, chords, chords. That’s the shit that I fucking care about more than anything. I listen to music all day.”

His love for chords was sparked by watching his hero Pharrell play the piano in The Neptunes’ 2003 DVD Clones when he was rising up.

“I didn’t know how to play the piano ’til I was about 13 after I had seen Pharrell play during the Clones DVD,” he instructed RESPECT journal in 2011. “When I seen him play that piano, I was like, ‘That is the coolest shit ever.’ I was like, ‘I need to learn how to fucking play piano.’ My mom never wanted to give me lessons, so I taught myself to play.”

Tyler’s manufacturing expertise are on full show all through the episode, with one clip exhibiting him overvalued within the studio after cooking up the luxurious beat for “Sweet/I Thought You Wanted To Dance,” from his 2021 album Call Me If You Get Lost.

Even when working with a few of his idols, Tyler isn’t afraid to provide route and talk his imaginative and prescient, whether or not it’s telling Pharrell tips on how to rap his verse on “Keep Da O’s” or giving vocal cues to legendary singer Charlie Wilson whereas recording “Fucking Young/Perfect.”

While the music itself is a central a part of his creativity, Tyler, The Creator has at all times had a love for rapping, utilizing phrases to color footage, inform tales and seize feelings.

“I’m a rapper, I love that shit,” he stated in a section from Hulu’s RapCaviar Presents. “It’s a beautiful thing. We’re good with words, we’re good with rhythm, we know pockets, we hear a collection of sounds and one thing and say, ‘Ah, I know what could go over this.’ That takes a skill … Being a rapper is awesome.”

Lil Wayne would agree. “First of all, Tyler changed the game. I probably had a line that I knew I wouldn’t say because people might think it was too gross to put into a rap or it didn’t go with the whole vibe of the song, but I’ll think about something that Tyler said in his shit,” stated Weezy — who’s labored with Tyler on “Smuckers,” “Droppin’ Seeds” and “Hot Wind Blows” — in his 2015 Cherry Bomb documentary.

“Also, he really be spittin,’ though. If n-ggas not listening to him and only hearing him, they need to listen — because hearing and listening are two different things.”

Watch the total episode beneath. Catch up on earlier Deep Dives on A$AP Rocky, J. Cole, Lil Wayne, JAY-Z and 2Pac, and take a look at the total collection on YouTube.