DON'T TAP THE GLASS
DON'T TAP THE GLASS Album ∙ Rap ∙ 2025 Tyler, The Creator With the October 2024 release of CHROMAKOPIA , Tyler, The Creator seemed to explain that his three-year gap between albums had at least something to do with him trying to reconcile celebrity visibility with his personal life. After the pleas for privacy on some of that 2024 album’s most memorable tracks—not least acerbic single “Noid”—his pugilistic 1980s rapper cosplay on the cover of the subsequent semi-surprise release DON’T TAP THE GLASS appears a continuation of that sentiment. The contents of this significantly shorter follow-up to the critically acclaimed, commercially successful full-length are quite intentionally a big step away from the array of revelations, rebukes, and storytelling that defined CHROMAKOPIA . Judging by the opening robotic commands of “Big Poe,” Tyler is dead set against baring his soul for his fans again, explicitly prioritizing danceability over “that deep shit” as the tenet b...