[ATTENDED: July 6, 2025] Tyler, the Creator
Lil I didn’t know all that much about Tyler, the Creator before this show. All that I knew about him was from when he first came on the scene with odd Future and he wrote horrorcore raps that were pretty graphic and nasty.
I knew that his albums were well regarded, but I had no idea that he had changed his style and that he was massively popular!
My daughter has a few of his songs on her playlists. He’s still pretty vulgar, but in much smaller doses.
I had no idea what to expect from this show. So I was blown away when the show started and Tyler came out, by himself, on the massive stage that was full of green lights.
Then we realized the problem. The seats that we had were pretty great–straight back from the stage and in rather comfy chairs. But there was this massive piece of rigging in the rafters that literally blocked all of the giant screens behind him and almost cut off him from view. It turns out that this rigging was all part of his stage show, so I can’t blame Wells Fargo Center.
Tyle came out and started dancing and rapping on the stage. He was completely engaging and commanded the entire room. He wore a mask with a wig (as on the album) for this part of the show. Although really I couldn’t tell at all that he was wearing the mask–couldn’t see the screens and he was too far away to see his face.
He played six songs from the new album (I don’t know if they were played all the way through or were just snippets). Which I only mention because in the middle of the set he played nothing but shortened versions of his songs.
After Judge Judy, the rigging moved down and then Tyler was on the catwalk in between the main stage and the B stage. He marched around and danced and was a fun spectacle to watch while he was up there.
And then the B stage rose high in the air to connect to the catwalk and as it lowered back down, a series of panels surrounded the stage and made it look like a small house. We couldn’t really see him inside and I thought, wow, we’ll never see this guy. But after the first song, the walls lifted and the B stage was there for all to see–a couch, a few other things and in the center was a turntable. For in one corner, he had a whole bunch of albums that he flipped through.
The camera was on him the whole time and while we still couldn’t see the screens, we could see him pretty well. But we needed the screens to see that he was digging through his records and ultimately pulled out IGOR (and the crowd went nuts). He brought the record to the turntable and put it on. I’m very curious to know if IGOR’s THEME was playing from the record he put on or not.
Then he proceeded to play three songs from Igor, including a snippet of Are We Still Friends, which everyone went nuts about. (more…)
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