Tyler, The Creator’s CHROMAKOPIA Explained

[silliest.strings-vkev]

we actually did get him talking about being African, the song “i killed you” is literally about embracing his natural hair, and how it is common now for many African people to straighten it/change it in some way to change natural hair texture. A big portion of this is due to western influence, which idk if this is correct but i think it is, please tell me if im incorrect 😭

[crespoochi]

Bro is so right, tamale was his Hispanic era ‼️‼️

[unrealistic.xpectations]

Tyler, the Creator has been in his African era since he was born.

[narmiarmy]

Yo guys js left my african era
Boutta enter my spanish era
Cannot wait till i get access to the Norwegian era

[sonnyragdc]

But when you're African you can't have an African era.. you're African all the time

[TheTrueBigB]

I think they look like horns. In the world tour video Tyler has, it paints the main character as sort of a crazy, scary leader of some sort. Even the titles on the thumbnails for the videos (Vinyl, etc.) Have horns on the first and last letters. Even the fact that he wears a mask might show that he doesnt want his face to be seen, or even deeper. It could be the trauma that that character has gone through, having that hairstyle (horns to me) as a way to show how evil he can be from the trauma he has went through. The mask could show the fact that he is paranoid (shown in NOID), And the people exploding in the plane and the shipping crates could be people being used as little playtoys (kinda like an action figure) to show people to stay away. I don't know though, that's just my thoughts on it.

[Goofygobbler]

Pretty sure it was supposed to reference Chroma the Great from the Phantom Tollbooth. Chroma is a musical composer that brings color to the world by conducting a symphony, two themes which are shown in his first track, St. Chroma

[beautyvine]

With every new “era” this man’s lore increases

[theclovisdiary]

Rwandan here. When I saw that Amasunzu hair... i was in awe😂 this album is actually 🔥 especially Darling, I.

[gteamvr]

Im pretty sure that the "African era" is wrong. Im pretty sure that it is inspired by a book and him being the conductor that can control light. Also the hair is inspired by that conductor.

[dinonuggforgod]

BRO, WHEN NOID DROP I LITERALLY WAS TELLING MY FRIENDS THAT NOID STOOD FOR PARANOID BUT ALSO THAT IT COULD STAND FOR NO ID, IM SO HAPPY THAT I WASN'T THE ONLY ONE THAT THOUGHT THIS

[xtremesarcasm]

I actually thought that in "noid", Tyler sampled Black Sabbath, but i just realised that the song i was thinking of is "war pigs" and not "paranoid", cool video!

[Notalllost-qsii]

This is a pretty creative video theory about what Tyler’s new character could be about. It much better then other people’s ideas where they don’t even consider that I hair might mean something. Good video though

[friedriceman]

Saying "He's in his African era" specifically to define the way he's expressing his music is like listening to Led Zeppelin and saying "I'm in my European era rn". Africa is a continent with a ton of different cultures you can't just mix and match and say "This is African culture".

[thrlucki]

You don't know how hard I was looking for the song that the member samples came from I couldn't find anything on Google Thank you so much

[MrDuckr]

Actually, "noid" in the context of the song doesn't mean "no id" but it actually means "paranoid"

[sepisolatanya-marieililong]

Thank you, Tyler, for the Zambian representation. When i first heard NOID i knew the sound and immediately was 'Noided. Then I called my father.

Blessed Be 🌛 🌕 🌜 Amen 👑 🇿🇲 🇺🇸 👑

[CupcakyIsHot]

i like how nobody is realizing that this album is the complete opposite of igor, in igor you cant see his ears and eyes, in chromakopia its the opposite, in igor he has a bowl cut, in chromakopia its like an upside down bowl cut. and if you reverse the cover of igor, the pink becomes the green in chromakopia

[ItsSean-ho]

The captions are right, Lloyd can be read as "No id" 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

[luvsvn]

I love this he’s so innovative and creative. His shi hard asf tho WHAT A DAY MY SHIT 😍😫