Average Rating: 9.7/10
Overall Rating: 9.5/10
Overall Rating: 9.5/10
1. Goblin (10/10)
2. Yonkers (10/10)
3. Radicals (10/10)
4. She Ft. Frank Ocean (10/10)
5. Transylvania (10/10)
6. Nightmare (10/10)
7. Tron Cat (10/10)
8. Her (10/10)
9. Sandwiches Ft. Hodgy Beats (10/10)
10. Fish (8/10)
11. Analog Ft. Hodgy Beats (10/10)
12. Bitch Suck Dick Ft. Jasper Dolphin & Taco (9.5/10)
13. Window Ft. Hodgy Beats, Mike G, Frank Ocean & Domino Genesis (10/10)
14. AU79 (8.5/10)
15. Golden (10/10)
16. Burger Ft. Hodgy Beats (10/10)
The depressed, angry, hate filled, and mentally disturbed teenage rapper Tyler The Creator is back two years after his strongly controversial, horrorcore based, and acclaime debut “Bastard”. So due to the success of the Bastard album, a lot of hype and anticipation came in for his sophomore album “Goblin”, which was promised by Tyler himself to be a darker, better produced, and overall a much more entertaining album. So did he keep his promise and live up to the level of the hype? Or did the album fall in the extremely long list of jinxed sophomore albums?
Goblin can best be described as a more modern day, darker, and rhythmically different version of Eminem’s 1999 debut “The Slim Shady LP” because like Eminem, Tyler pushed freedom of speech to the limit with this album with it’s hardcore, disturbing lyrics about rape, murder, suicide, depression, and drugs. But unlike the reason behind the Slim Shady LP, Tyler’s reason for Goblin was extremely different, Eminem just wanted to mess around with people, but Tyler at the other hand, has strongly built his image as a goth, and more or less a dark and emo rapper way before he was even famous.
Goblin opens up in a very similar way to Bastard, like Bastard, if opens with Tyler’s therapist talking to him. Then Tyler starts addressing some personal problems, but unlike Bastard, Goblin goes into a more depressing, revealing, suicidal, and if felt a lot more personal than Bastard, which really pushed this track to being the better and the more emotional album opener, and one of the best tracks on this album.
The second track on the album, which is the first single, “Yonkers” was pure genius. Every line on that track contradicted the one before it, making it seem more like an argument between Tyler and himself. It took various shots at modern day hip-hop, B.o.B, Hayley Williams, Bruno Mars, music critics, as well as his own fans, which resulted into a controversial, dark, creepy, as well as a very entertaining track. The third track “Radicals” talks about Tyler hating life, and everything in it, and as expected, the track had a lot of shock value, as usual the lyrics where very dark and controversial, plus the song has a really strong mosh pit style mood, it just feels like a song which a person would use while destroying stuff. The fourth track on the album “She” it was another excellent track here, it was very different comparing to the rest of the album, it was more R’n’B influenced, plus t shows a bit more of Tyler’s sensitive side, he was talking about his feelings to a girl, and how he acts up because he likes her, so it’s a great, and a very different track on the album.
The album has a ton of great, memorable tracks. “Yonkers”, “Goblin”, “Radicals” and “She” where only four of them, other than those three there was “Transylvania” a song with a very creepy flow about eating girls and sucking there blood. “Sandwiches” which is another contender for the best track of the album, it was controversial, hardcore, had a lot of shock value, and Left Brain provided a different, but creepy beat for the song. “Burger” was a song about beef, it was also one of the album’s best, and it kinda feels like a sequel to Sandwiches. “Tron Cat” had the darkest lyrics in the album. “Window” had every odd future member talking to Tyler like they were all trying to help him in the therapist’s office, which lead to having a very dark and exciting story telling track. “Golden” deals with how his life after his first album in a way very similar to “Inglorious” from his first album, which is in a way the last thing Tyler talks about in his session with his therapist, then he loses complete emotional control, but Golden was an improvement, and “Nightmare” generally deals with depression, and living a bad and depressing life.
The album has some downers though. The lack of hooks and choruses was still there on this album, which I find an error because personally, I like having great hooks on a song, and personally, I think a bad hook is better than no hook in some cases. Also there where some weaker tracks on the album such as “Fish”, one example was one of the weaker tracks on the album, I think it was too slow, but other than Fish and some other track, and with very minimal issues, the album was exactly how Tyler promised it.
Tyler brought what he exactly promised on this album. Goblin had darker lyrics, better production, a more disturbing theme, and generally better music. Goblin had all of that, and it was a bit better than expected, it had some very minor issues, but even with those minor issues the album was extremely powerful, and at times a bit scary to be honest. Goblin was something a lot bigger than being one of the best albums of just this generation; it could most possibly be one of the best hip-hop albums to ever come out. This is a huge accomplishment for Tyler, as well as a huge accomplishment for modern day hip-hop music, which isn’t that great in my opinion, since modern day hip-hop is easy to beat, but still with Tyler, Odd Future, and every other new, young horrorcore based rapper getting attention, the future looks a lot better, and odder for hip-hop, and honestly, Goblin will be remembered as the album which opened that door.
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