Review: Tyler, the creator starts the Chromakopia tour in Star Tribune in Star Tribune

With St. Paul in the opening city of Tyler, the Creator’s tour, the fans of Minnesota were the first to see how the rapper would unite his more serious and dramatic new person with the wild problem-the old one.

The second largest rap star of Los Angeles of the 21st century (after Kendrick Lamar) has found an innovative way to balance his past with his present on the date of kicking on Tuesday for his tour at Chromakopia in the Xcel Energy Center. He was almost as if he were performing two different concerts, each equally impressive.

The 33-year-old rapper, producer and clothing designer native Tyler Okonma played about 15,000 fans, his first sold out crowd of Twin Cities Arena after a stable climb and a half-returning to the early local concerts at the beginning Avenue and Soundset Festival with his old crew A strange future.

Where the strange future was rude and outrageous (and sexist), Tyler grew into a more contemplative and mature one if still sharp edges. His latest album, Chromakopia, deepens in his family history with an alienated father from Nigeria. It also opens for its struggles with glory, sexuality, relationships and two words that killed a lot of rapper career: growth.

Tyler opened the concert on Tuesday with a long installation of songs from the new recording and nothing else. In essence, he played the first half of him, starting with the reminiscent of St. St. St. Chrome, in which we hear his own mother tell him, “You are the light. It’s not you, it’s in you. “

In the beginning, the lights were not on Tyler, but instead on the stage made of green delivery containers from which he appeared. He focuses more and more as he was torn through Rah Tah Tah and Noid-gradually revealed it, dressed in a green coat, resembling a higher and wearing the cover of the new album.

“Satellites, screenshots, paparazzi, ndas / confidentiality? Yes, right, I got a better shot at the NBA, “he pulled out at the Noid, one of the most intensive moments at night.