Tyler, The Creator's fifth album arrived as a synth-drenched heartbreak symphony that deliberately buried his rapping under waves of soul-inflected production. The unrequited love narrative unfolds through Igor, an alter ego navigating romantic devastation across tracks like the chart-conquering Earfquake, while contributions from Playboi Carti to Solange remain uncredited to preserve the album's singular vision.

Its Grammy win for Best Rap Album sparked Tyler's public frustration about genre pigeonholing, a fair complaint given how thoroughly the record dismantles hip-hop convention in favour of melodic experimentation and compositional ambition.