Tyler, the Creator is keeping busy. In the midst of a giant tour — 6-NYC-area shows included — in support of his great 2024 album Chromakopia, and also back on everybody’s minds due to a killer verse on the killer new Clipse album, he has gone ahead and dropped yet another new album today called Don’t Tap The Glass. It’s now streaming everywhere.
He also just dropped a video for the track “Stop Playing With Me” which you can watch below — look out for Clipse and LeBron.
The album, which he teased on Friday online and at his Barclays Center show in Brooklyn, is 10 tracks and 28 minutes long, and came with this statement encouraging people to dance:
I asked some friends why they don’t dance in public and some said because of the fear of being filmed. I thought damn, a natural form of expression and a certain connection they have with music is now a ghost. It made me wonder how much of our human spirit got killed because of the fear of being a meme, all for having a good time. I just got back from a ‘listening party’ for this album and man was it one of the greatest nights of my life. 300 people. No phones allowed. No cameras. Just speakers and a sweatbox. Everyone was dancing, moving, expressing, sweating. It was truly beautiful. I played the album front to back twice, it felt like that pent up energy finally got released and we craved the idea of letting more of it out. There was a freedom that filled the room. A ball of energy that might not translate to every speaker that plays this album but man did that room nail it. This album was not made for sitting still. Dancing driving running any type of movement is recommended to maybe understand the spirit of it. Only at full volume.
Read about one of the recent NYC shows at MSG, and go dance.