Nightmare Fuel / Tyler, the Creator

Tyler's work has been known to dabble into eerie or sometimes gruesome imagery. His earlier material is rife with this, but some scares can (and will) still pop up in his later work.

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• Bastard:
  • "Sarah". It seems to be about a boy who kills, cannibalizes and rapes a girl after she says no to his invitation to prom. Made even sadder by this line just before he does so: "But all I really want is a kiss on the cheek, in private, not public on the streets...". Not to mention all the nice sound effects in the song, including the victim screaming "Tyler!" through her gag followed by some indiscernible babbling, the sound of her apparently choking on... something... and after her death, a skit in which Tyler cradles what's left of her body and croons to her "My lady... you're my lady... taste so good..." before committing suicide by cop.
  • "Blow", another song about Tyler raping and murdering a girl. The chorus, accompanied by Tyler's alter-ego demon voice, sums it up pretty well.
  Baby, you're an angel
  How about we turn this into a fable of some sort?
  You already know you're dead
  Ironic cause your lipstick's red, of course
  I stuff you in the trunk, drunk
  Cause all I really wanna do is fuck and snort blow
  • Take a look at the cover of Bastard. Now, take a look at some of the individual faces.
• Goblin:
  • The video for "Yonkers:" an Inaction Video in which he plays with and then eats a cockroach, vomits, has his eyes go completely black, and ultimately hangs himself on camera. The song itself isn't any less frightening, especially at the end with Wolf Haley's verse. But after that, some rather unsettling distortion plays and Wolf says "Dead."
  • Even worse is "Tron Cat". The beat is creepy as hell, Tyler says stuff like he raped a pregnant bitch says he had a threesome. Even Dr. T.C. who is later revealed as another one of his personalities is speechless and says "What the fuck?"
  • "She", an R&B ballad about a Stalker with a Crush who has an obsessive infatuation with a woman, even watching over her as she sleeps. Doesn't help that Frank Ocean's hook turns this into an ear worm. The video is creepy as well: it portrays Tyler as a masked sexual predator with Black Eyes of Evil that sneaks into the bedroom of Frank Ocean's lover, rapping to her as she sleeps. Frank sees it and reports it to the police who track him down and successfully catch him. As the police take Tyler back to the lover's house, Tyler finds time to rap to her more about how much he loves her, and the scenario ends with Tyler turning to the camera and smiling. It zooms out to show that it's on a TV screen that the lover is watching...but the camera pans up to show that Tyler is standing behind her.
  • The special edition cover art for Goblin is a lovely close-up of Tyler from the "Yonkers" video, Black Eyes of Evil included, staring into your soul.
• Wolf:
  • The Creepy Dolls (Tyler and a woman in heavy Uncanny Valley Makeup) in Tyler's video for "Ifhy," along with the Stalker with a Crush lyrics and Domestic Abuse imagery. (Though Nightmare Retardant kicks in when Tyler's doll is suddenly run over by the actual Tyler and Hodgy and the song switches to "Jamba")
  • "Pigs," which is done in the style of a track from Bastard or Goblin, only that it stars Samuel and stops being tongue-in-cheek early on and turns into a horrifying deconstruction with a very convincing My God, What Have I Done? coupled with a tear jerking emotional breakdown.
  Samuel: I didn't mean to hurt anybody, I'm sorry
  I wouldn't hurt a fly or consider joining the Army
  I'm hardly ever angry, Roger Rabbit framed me
  Momma I'm the same fucking kid that you made, see?
  I don't wanna go to jail, I just wanna go home
  And I want them fucking kids at school to just leave me alone
  • Also, Samuel's entrance at the end of "Rusty," when he kills Earl. Though it's hammy enough to be Black Comedy, it's still pretty disturbing.
  Samuel: Oh, SHUT THE FUCK UP! (*a gunshot is heard along with the sound of Earl hitting the floor) SAMUEL'S HERE!
  • The Tamale video, which is otherwise hilarious, has a very eerie bit in which Tyler is in whiteface.
• Cherry Bomb:
  • The video to "Buffalo" is rife with Uncanny Valley imagery. It starts out with Tyler in his whiteface makeup again, sporting an lopsided glare at the viewer, but then it zooms out to reveal that he's been lynched and that an angry mob is still coming for him. Tyler lowers himself from the noose and he starts running, but the way he walks is unsteady and jilted, like a corpse or a ragdoll. At least the second half of the video is okay.
• Flower Boy:
  • The first half of the "Who Dat Boy" video is rife with Facial Horror right from the thumbnail. It starts out with Tyler creating something that blows up in his face, literally. Judging by the lyrics and the fact that the police are after him throughout the video, it's safe to assume it was a bomb. Tyler then visits A$AP Rocky, who sews a new face onto him. Special mention goes to the part where he walks to Rocky's house, which seems pretty goofy until the camera turns around to reveal his destroyed face.
• IGOR:
  • Tyler's face on the album cover to IGOR could qualify as this, his blank stare and the stark contrast between it and the purely pink background.
  • While most of Igor is light on nightmare fuel, "New Magic Wand" is a glaring exception, with a sinister and abrasive beat akin to Tyler's Bastard / Goblin output and lyrics about Tyler becoming dangerously obsessive towards his crush and wanting to kill the woman he perceives as a romantic rival.
• Call Me If You Get Lost:
  • The video for SORRY NOT SORRY. Featuring all of Tyler's alter egos and a plain shirtless Tyler, at what is implied to be an execution booth, if only for what happens next. Midway through, the shirtless Tyler starts moving around the stage, and the alter egos disappear one by one, until only Tyler Baudelaire, CMIYGL's alter ego, is left. Then he gets jumped on too, the video ending on a grim shot of the shirtless Tyler punching Baudelaire to death, drenched in his blood, and then it's cut off by the CMIYGL jingle.