Tyler, The Creator is still riding on the stoke from last week’s Odd Future Carnival and he’s taken to the their Tumblr to vent his passionate message amongst their collection of distorted family portraits and doughnuts.
This is coming from a guy who’s had petitions levelled against him to prevent him touring Australia, having been deemed a bad influence. But here the OF leader’s focus is on inspiration rather than shock value.
Along with his ‘You do you, son’ vibe he’s also mad happy about getting to jam his favourite ride in the world, The Zipper, as many times as he likes without having to line up.
Because the post is a bit draining to read on the site, we’ve got a transcript of the upbeat essay (via Potholes In My Blog) here for you, typos and all.
“It’s been a week since the carnival, which I have no realized was the greatest day of my life. Seeing everyone I care about there was crazy. No, that’s not even that part that got me excited. Seeing what some stupid little ideas can turn into is what shocks me. The little stupid cats and graphics I made on Photo Shop out of boredom on flags and murals; seeing that donut I drew when I was 15 on stages and everyone’s bag; 10 thousand people came to a place called ‘Camp Flog Gnaw,’ wow.
I remember when I cam up with that name summer 2011. I never been to camp and in my head, I created a place that I figured would never exist, but that changed. Just flipping the first letters of Wolf Gang turn into its own separate thing. Seeing all different races from skinny to fat to everything all in one place with something in common was mind blowing. The Zipper is my favorite ride in the world. Not that you care, but that fact that I figured out how to get that thing and ride it for as many times as I want without waiting in line IS fucking amazing.
I have an amazing team with me. No matter how crazy and offensive or weird my ideas were, they put their trust in me and allowed me to move forward. Like dude, we threw a fucking carnival in the middle of Los Angeles with 10k plus people. We didn’t have any crazy sponsors and I didn’t have to suck up to anyone or any of that shit, WE did it. And the skatepark? Did you see that skatepark? I was up till 2 a.m. painting that bitch!
Growing up in Hawthorne at the Dirty (skatepark) and seeing my old friends from there getting clips was prolly the craziest shit I’ve seen. How far I’ve came with every little idea that I believed in no matter who did or didn’t. Walking around seeing kids in EXACT things that I wear is mind blowing. Something that I just naturally like and put on, it’s some kid out there that studies every article of clothing that was put on and emulates that. That’s crazy to me. I used to do that with P, so knowing that someone IS looking at me the way I look at him is really amazing to me.
I didn’t think I would change so many lives. Someone retweeted an old tweet of mine from Feb. 2012 yesterday and it read, “I had a dream that Kanye invited me to perform “LATE” with him. I wish.” Kanye came to the carnival and I performed “Late” with him. My favorite song by Kanye, an album cut he NEVER does, was performed not only with but during my set and my carnival! No matter if you hate me, think I’m stupid, untalented, annoying or whatever, I FUCKING WIN AND YOU CAN SUCK MY WHOLE SHIT.
We did this, OF did this, coming from actually jack shit and turned that jack shit into something. I’m just babbling now. I just want whoever is reading this to know that anything is possible, no matter how crazy it may seem, anything IS possible you just have to figure it out. Get your self-esteem up and like yourself, then like your ideas. We live in a world where people don’t even like their own ideas, that’s why you have people copying one thing that’s working so much, then everything gets over saturated with the same shit, and that goes with fashion, music, and all that.
If people actually loved themselves and believed in themselves more you know how many more crazy things would be created? There is no fucking limit to anything! (except elevators). It’s a world of people who don’t give a fuck about the mall or the radio or none of that shit, who don’t care about race or if someone is gay or whatnot. That’s what I was trying to say on that Arsenio interview. I prolly came off as an idiot, though.
I’m really passionate about everything I do. From music to clothing to videos. I love making videos so much. I just want some millionaire to throw me money to be creative and get shots. I remember kids in school always thought I was weird, not just cause how I dressed or the music I liked or that fact I was just different overall (in comparison to them), but because I was so open with future goals. I would always say the Grammys I’m gonna get and the number one movie I’m going to write and direct, and just random shit I’m gonna do.
Now those same dudes who shut me down are paying shitty college debt doing something they hate, because they didn’t go full throttle on their own dreams and quickly shitted on mines. And I’m not knocking anyone in college. Please get your education. I’m just saying, do what you love and be happy. Don’t live for anyone else.
I don’t like the color black. I don’t know what that has to do with anything but I like colors, bright colors, like flowers. It brings a great energy. OK I’m just talking again. It’s prolly a lot of typos in this but I’m just going off of whatever is coming to my head. This photo of Na-kel Smith skating in front of the GOLF mural at the Skatepark means so much to me (check it out here). The world is yours, little n***a, and I mean that. They are them, we are us, fuck them all! OFWGKTA.
Robert Brown
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