Biography of tyler the creator vans

Tyler, the Creator is tearing down Route 118 in an all-white BMW, blasting Death Grips. "I really wanna fucking drift," he says, shifting gears like he's in an arcade racing chair. He palms the wheel with one hand and thrashes to the music with the other, changing songs every 40 seconds. Suddenly, he's miming along to thick '70s soul, performing to his speedometer, which has climbed to 85. He is 23, born Tyler Gregory Okonma in March 1991 in Los Angeles, and the stretch of the San Fernando Valley he now calls home is all mountains and dust, lizards and mansions, a $40 Uber away from the Fairfax skate shops he lurked as a teen.

Still weaving across lanes, he grabs his phone and begins skipping through demos from his upcoming fourth album, which he's been quietly recording for the past year, and lands on a two-minute blitz of scratch verses and stampeding, jagged drums. He mashes his checkered Vans into the gas and brake pedals with binary force. We swing to a dead-footed stop ce

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How Golf Wang Evolved With Tyler, the Creator's Career

Since capturing the attention of mainstream music fans with his polarizing and rebellious antics in 2010, Tyler, the Creator has cultivated a unique and loyal fanbase. Tyler’s music has evolved from the violent lyrics and cockroach-eating visuals he offered up on Bastard and Goblin to the experimental and much more mature sound you hear on projects like Flower Boy and Igor. And as he’s grown as an artist, so has Golf Wang, his streetwear line.

Golf Wang, a flip on the collective’s Wolf Gang title, kicked off in 2011 when Tyler and the Odd Future crew were gaining notoriety. It was a step above their regular merch, which was mostly Gildan blanks printed with graphics like katt heads with laser beams shooting from their eyes, the munk logo, or OF member Lucas Vercetti’s teenage face. But it maintained the group’s ethos with plenty of fluorescent colors and youthful graphics. Golf reflected what Tyler was capable

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Inside Tyler, The Creator’s Colorful Golf Wang World at Made L.A.

For the five years since he launched fashion line Golf Wang, Tyler, the Creator has been waiting for this moment. “Do what you’re told!” he barks to his crew backstage, only half-joking, 10 minutes before he shows his 2016 collection for the very first time.

The brand’s name is a play on Wolf Gang, as in Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All, his notorious hip-hop collective. His clothes — a colorful array of pastel and fluorescent-colored hats, T-shirts, a new line of shoes called Golf Le Fleur and even a bathrobe — were being fitted on the models last minute. Tyler shimmies down the stairs toward the dressing room in a glittery short-sleeve shirt, a light pink cap and denim shorts. His eyes are glued to his cellphone as he tweets:

The 25-year-old whips past a much older male model munching on Doritos. He’s sporting threads from the line: long, white cotton slacks with