The group soon learnt how to monetise their brand, signing a distribution deal with Sony, launching popular clothing labels as well as the comedy sketch show Loiter Squad.īut in the early stages, Odd Future posted stuff straight away, seemingly unchecked by industry professionals. The page became a canvas for the group to experiment with their striking aesthetic, sharing goofy videos of them making fun of rap cliches, skateboarding, moshing, falling asleep, and reacting to fan-made art and music videos. From December 2009 onwards (when Tyler, the Creator uploaded his debut mixtape Bastard), Odd Future posted dozens of mixtapes, including debuts from now major acts like Frank Ocean and Earl Sweatshirt alongside projects from The Jet Age Free, Mike G and Mellowhype onto Tumblr for free, quickly building a global fanbase without label-backed album release strategies or hip-hop mixtape sites like Datpiff. To adolescents across the world, it was like stumbling upon the coolest cult on earth.Ĭentral to their ascent was the group’s popular Tumblr page, something that revolutionised how rappers approached self-promotion. They were like the droogs from A Clockwork Orange if they could spit bars. Discovering Odd Future, who made being a weirdo cool and weren’t afraid to piss off rap’s elder statesmen ( or, later on, Bruno Mars) was exhilarating. When the LA collective really started to make waves in 2010, the tepid rap that ruled the airwaves had a heavily polished feel (B.o.B’s The Adventures of Bobby Ray and Eminem’s Recovery were two of the year’s highest selling records).
User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available under the GNU FDL.Whether it was their lo-fi musicality, reckless humour, or their DIY aesthetic – for which demonic cats and Earl Sweatshirt’s indifferent glare were logos for t‑shirts – in their early days Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All were proudly out-of-sync with the rest of hip-hop culture. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License additional terms may apply. In addition to artists, there are an unknown number of other members of Odd Future that do not contribute musically. The Internet: Syd Tha Kid and Matt Martian I Smell Panties: Tyler, The Creator and Jasper Dolphin
The Jet Age of Tomorrow / The Super 3: Matt Martian and Hal Williams 2, Odd Future's debut collaborative LP and the follow up to their first mixtape, was released on Mavia Odd Future Records.ĮarlWolf: Tyler, The Creator and Earl Sweatshirt On October 3, 2011, the group released a compilation album entitled 12 Odd Future Songs (which actually contains 13 songs), featuring select tracks from some of the many solo and sub-group albums released by Odd Future members that are frequently performed live, as well as a new track by The Internet. The Radical mixtape was released in 2010, which featured all of the group's original members (save for Casey Veggies, who had left the group) as well as new contributors Earl Sweatshirt, Domo Genesis, Mike G, and Taco Bennett rapping over a collection of their favorite beats. The tape was recorded with nothing more than a computer camera microphone, and featured some tracks that would later make it onto Tyler, The Creator's debut LP, Bastard.
1), as a free download via the collective's official blog. In November 2008, the group released their debut mixtape, The Odd Future Tape (now sometimes called The Odd Future Tape Vol. In addition to several albums and mixtapes released by the many individual members and sub-groups of Odd Future, the collective has collaboratively released two mixtapes, one compilation album, and one full-length studio album. Although frequently labeled as horrorcore, the group has repeatedly distanced themselves from the genre and is more typically considered alternative or indie hip-hop. Commonly referred to as OF, Odd Future, Wolf Gang, Golf Wang, and various other pseudonyms, the collective is known for their dark, violent, and offensive lyrical content, as well as their energetic live shows and general "don't give a fuck" attitude.
Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All (OFWGKTA) is a hip-hop collective from Los Angeles, California, USA formed by Tyler, The Creator in 2007.