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CHROMAKOPIA + Album ∙ Hip-Hop/Rap ∙ 2024 Tyler, The Creator As someone who invited fame and courted infamy, first with inflammatory albums like  Wolf  and later with his flamboyant fashion sense via GOLF WANG , Tyler Okonma is less knowable than most stars in the music world. While most celebrities of his caliber and notoriety either curate their public lives to near-plasticized extremes or become defined by tabloid exploits, the erstwhile Odd Futurian chiefly shares what he cares to via his art and the occasional yet ever-quotable interview. As his Tyler, The Creator albums pivoted away from persona-building and toward personal narrative, as on the acclaimed  IGOR  and  CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST , his mystique grew grandiose, with the undesirable side effect of greater speculation. The impact of fan fixation plays no small part on  CHROMAKOPIA , his seventh studio album and first in more than three years. Reacting to the weirdness, opening track “ St. Chrom...