Tyler, the Creator's Explosive 2025: New Album, Cryptic Rollout, and Chromakopia World Tour Domination

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Tyler the Creator has been everywhere these past few days and the headlines are stacked. The biggest news is that his ninth studio album Don’t Tap the Glass dropped unexpectedly on July 21, 2025 through Columbia Records, setting the internet ablaze and marking his fourth consecutive number one debut on the Billboard 200. The release was true to Tyler’s spontaneous style, teased only days before at his fourth sold-out New York show at Barclays Center, where fans leaving the venue were greeted by a wild installation covered in album imagery. According to Spin, the rollout included a cryptic website, shirtless renderings of Tyler, and multiple merchandise bundles that sent fans scrambling.

The night before the album hit, Tyler held a rowdy listening party at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles, telling everyone not to bother coming if they weren’t going to dance. After the album was out, he made a passionate statement on social media lamenting the decline of dancing at shows because everyone’s afraid of being filmed and going viral for the wrong reasons. Encouraging full-volume listening and movement, he called Don’t Tap the Glass “not made for sitting still.” To punctuate the release, he quickly dropped the video for Stop Playing With Me, with cameos from Clipse and LeBron James, and kept the promotional blitz going with five more videos in rapid succession, each featuring dancing and the now-iconic glowing glass logo.

His social media engagement has been nonstop, including a locked Instagram story reveal for the Don’t Tap That Glass/Tweakin’ split video and a retro-inspired budget-friendly trip to the 2000s highlighted by Billboard with the Sucka Free video. Tyler also made headlines by hosting a second listening party under the K Bridge Park in Brooklyn, and self-directing the video for Sugar on My Tongue, released August 12.

Meanwhile, he’s nearing the end of his massive 96-stop Chromakopia World Tour, which wraps up September 21 in Manila after crisscrossing 20 countries since February. While rerunning his newest material, he’s notably kept Cherry Bomb tracks out of the setlist, even as the album’s 10th anniversary reissue powered it back into the Billboard Top Ten, all driven almost solely by collectible physical sales.

But Tyler is not stopping to catch his breath. The Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival he curates just unveiled its 2025 lineup, causing a stir both for Tyler’s headlining set—his only planned West Coast festival date this fall—and for featuring Childish Gambino’s major return, Doechii, A$AP Rocky, Clipse, and more. The event runs November 15 and 16 at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles and, predictably, tickets vanished instantly. For Tyler, the momentum is electric and the culture is watching every move.

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