With tracks spinning from artists ranging from Schoolboy Q to Jigga, the crowd attempted to jump along, but the shoulder to shoulder crowd made it difficult to even move without hitting anyone nearby, even though the venue was divided in half by barriers separating the all ages and 19+ groups. Sweaty and intoxicated before the show even started, young fans were being dragged out by security early on. Maybe they forgot it was a school night.
At a surprisingly early, quarter to nine, Tyler hit the stage wearing his own merchandise, as per usual, rocking a polka dotted GOLF tee and green hat and performing tracks from his second studio album Wolf for the first time in Toronto since its release earlier this year. His OF counterpart Jasper Dolphin accompanied him onstage to hype along throughout tracks such as “IFHY”, “Bimmer” and “Trashwang” that the crowd screamed along with. Odd Future fans are die-hard fans. It is rare to find a movement with as much of a cult following as those Cali boys and the fans didn’t let them forget it, with the nonstop deafening screams of adoration.
The show ended with a hype performance of “Tamale” as the crowd became mosh-pit material, a sea of hype hipsters flailing around to the most turnt-up song on the album as the show ended before 10 p.m. It seems Tyler cares about his young fans’ curfew.
Overall, this was not the livest Tyler has been in concert. His energy was low as opposed to other shows, and he took a long time in between tracks to talk nonsense, take pictures with lucky fans in the front row, try on sunglasses and receive gifts that fans had brought him that included some records, French Toast Crunch and… a tampon, which someone threw on stage. He spent almost half of his show addressing his fans, which for fans of the movement, was probably what they paid the ticket price to see.
But it truly was a weird night with some of the oddest, led by the frontrunner himself.
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