Nineteen-year-old rapper Tyler the Creator, a member of LA rap collective Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All, is unwell. In the video for his new single Yonkers – currently getting 100,000 hits a day on YouTube – he sits alone in a bare room, rapping frantically at the camera while a cockroach crawls across a hand scrawled with the word "KILL". The cockroach is not long for this world as he's chewed, swallowed and then vomited back up, before our hero's eyes turn black, blood pours out of his nose and he, er, hangs himself. It's a deeply unsettling video matched by stark, bass-heavy hip-hop at it's most lyrically sinister (Bruno Mars doesn't come out of it well, neither does B.o.B). Yonkers is taken from Tyler's second album, Goblin, which will be released in the UK by XL Recordings this spring.
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