Tyler the Creator gets jazzed out

Love him or love to hate him, Tyler the Creator has made Goblin one of the most talked-about albums of 2011. California producers Amp Live and collective Jazz Mafia swooped down on his solo debut and put out remixes of ‘Radicals’, ‘Yonkers’ and ‘Goblin’. With touches of smokey jazz and big-band instrumentals thrown into the mix, we’re led into a whole new world of rain-soaked streets and buzzing streetlights. Could this be the dawn of noir-hop?

Published June 23, 2011.