Gallery: Camp Flog Gnaw 2024

By Paste Staff | November 22, 2024 | 11:30am

Music Features Tyler, The Creator

Last weekend, Tyler, the Creator’s annual Camp Flog Gnaw festival returned to Dodger Stadium for its 10-year celebration. The two-day brought some of the most beloved and powerful names in modern music together, including Erykah Badu, Denzel Curry, Earl Sweatshirt, Yves Tumor, Faye Webster, Sampha and André 3000. Joining the ranks, too, were Hana Vu, Wisp, Sexxy Red, Doechii and RAYE, as well as Matt Champion, Syd, The Marias, Orion Sun and more.

The festival comes on the heels of the release of Tyler, the Creator’s new album, CHROMAKOPIA, which we named a Paste Pick. In their 9.4/10-scored review, music editor Matt Mitchell wrote that “CHROMAKOPIA is not like any of the last three or four albums Tyler, the Creator released. Sure, it may nab comparisons to the polarizing disorder of Cherry Bomb, or even the collage inspirations of CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST, but this record works because it is a combination of all of those things without, if we’re being honest, sounding explicitly like any of them. It’s the most Tyler, the Creator that Tyler Okonma has ever sounded and yet, CHROMAKOPIA sounds nothing like him—at least nothing like what we’ve heard from him since he dropped Bastard in 2009. Few greats can stand on business like that. When you press play on a Kendrick Lamar album, you likely already know what to expect. The differences between To Pimp a Butterfly, DAMN. and Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers are circumstantial. There’s a reason why Tyler compares himself to Kenny on this record: It’s further proof that the rap world runs through Southern California, that there’s room for more than one head at the table. CHROMAKOPIA, through imperfections and rigidity, gives us a clear, damning portrait of Tyler’s humanity.”