Last Friday night I went to the Glass House in Pomona, CA. and saw "Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All" otherwise known as OFWGKTA or Odd Future, a "fucking awesome" genre (yes, you've read correctly they have officially created this new genre of music) based group born and raised out of Los Angeles, California--my hometown. I was pretty stoked to find out that a buddy of mine had an extra ticket, because I knew the venue was sold out…over 800 people to be exact!
I was introduced to one of OFWGKTA's members Hodgy Beats through a long time mutual friend of ours Josh Valdez. I would have never known or believed their music to be so influential let alone blow up the way it has. In the short amount of time the group has been around they have sold out shows outside their hometown in LA, in both New York and London as well as having made their TV debut performing their "out of the box" hit "Sandwiches" with The Roots on the Jimmy Fallon Show back on February 16, 2011.
Although words such as controversial, non conventional, bold, risky, and the utter epitome of "DGAF" is what Odd Future bases their music upon, they stress the true importance of the evolution and basics of self awareness. That being said, lead rapper/producer Tyler “The Creator” has been interviewed on MTV saying he can be or do whatever he wants, and no one can convince him differently. He passionately explained to the MTV cameras that if he wanted to be a "unicorn" or "table" for instance, he would and could be a unicorn or table. Although taking the "I can be whatever I want" to the extremes Tyler is on the fast track to fame, with his video "Yonkers" being tweeted as "The video of 2011" by Kanye West.
For more info on Odd Future you can visit their website at www.oddfuture.com or check out their performance at this months Cochella April 15, 2011.
I shot some of their performance at the Glass House which can be seen here:
