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And Finally
Tyler, The Creator protégé a hoax
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 28 September 2011
Odd Future recently announced that they had signed a new artist to their label, Odd Future Records, a development various media around the world reported on, though who remembers whether CMU was suckered in? I know I don’t.
It was an interesting story because when the hip hop posse first set up their own label via a joint venture with Sony’s RED distribution company they insisted they wouldn’t sign other artists, but use the venture to release their own output. But then they said earlier this week that their new discovery, the rather provocatively named Young Nigga, was just “too good” to not sign. They “simply could not pass up the opportunity” to work with this new talent, the announcement said.
A preview of the rapper’s debut single, ‘Come Threw Looking Clean’, brought the group’s website to a near standstill, and Young Nigga’s debut album, ‘Expensive Pasta’, to be produced by Odd Future’s own Tyler, The Creator, was reportedly in the works. Except it isn’t. Because it turns out that Young Nigga is none other than Tyler himself, cunningly disguised with a wig and some glasses.
Why Tyler did this, no one seems sure. His publicist told the LA Times: “I guess it was just Tyler having fun, because I could not verify why he did this alter ego either”.
Oh well, have a listen here anyway:
