![]() The song Nightmare, can be considered one of the most brutally-honest rap songs of the last decade. ![]() In highlights like these, Tyler combines meditations on unexpected bouts with fame with expressing his own vulnerabilities and need to be offensive. While a recent fan of Tyler’s work could easily be taken-aback by his consistent need to be overly-explicit with descriptions of murder and sexual acts on this mixtape, this can be considered a typically immature, rebellious way of expressing one’s emotions and fits the album’s themes. Here, a deep-voiced alter-ego of Tyler’s (Tyler’s Conscious) would take him on various sessions to understand why he’s been misbehaving at school, leading to Tyler shouting fits of repressed rage to TC’s surprise and sometimes disgust. ![]() ![]() The concept of his therapist, Dr TC, was also introduced in Bastard. With arresting self-produced beats and spitting flows, Tyler went on to rap tasteful storytelling and metaphors of rebelling against society’s standards, creating a serial-killer alter-ego that abducts women, and generally flinging whatever punchy bars came to him. Tyler was next to follow, with his debut mixtape Bastard in 2010 being a raw expression of teenage angst and repressed anger, mostly stemming from abandonment issues from his father and from being a social outcast due to his interests.
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