![]() ![]() The title track's gist, to quote another chippy young lyricist, is Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not: a preemptive strike at potential critics. Like his 2009 debut, Bastard, Goblin is framed as a session with his therapist, but this time – after a year or so wandering the internet's hall of mirrors – he is also addressing his presumed audience. Since they emerged in 2008, their richly offensive online releases have provoked gigabytes of debate (in a nutshell: "Is it OK to like this?"), which has reached critical mass with Tyler's first official album. Shenanigans, to put it mildly, are Odd Future's modus operandi. ![]() Fox's Boston affiliate, at least, acknowledged the phenomenon by reporting an unruly record-store signing where police were called to "quell the shenanigans". Fox News's feeble attempt to present Common's invitation to the White House as a threat to the republic because the thoughtful rapper was once rude about the police seemed irrelevant in light of the online debate simultaneously raging about Tyler, the Creator, the 20-year-old star player of cult LA collective Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All and the most hotly discussed new musician of 2011. L ast week was an interesting one for controversy in hip-hop.
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