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Saving his most world-weary prose for race relations and harsh lyrical observations of Black Lives Matter-say, “Manifesto,” and lines such as “I ain’t gonna cheerlead with y’all just to be a dancer” or “Whips on whips, my ancestors got they backs out” from “Lumberjack”-Tyler shows off his skill and progress as a rapper with a power and musicality you knew he had in him, yet feared he’d let slide. See, I was shifting, that’s really why Cherry Bomb sounded so shifty / My taste started changing from what it was when they met me. That caterpillar went to cocoon, do you get me?

When I turned 23, that’s when puberty hit me / My facial hair started growing, my clothing ain’t really fit me

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Referring to the series of back-and-forth life changes on “Massa,” Tyler takes to the idea of worldliness and tour travel as the double-troubling triggers for making, then utilizing, the freshly found self-realizations of Call Me :

“I came a long way from my past…it’s obvious,” raps Tyler, proud of where he’s been and the wonk he’s moving toward, such as the synth-sinister “Lumberjack” and the free-jazzy “Hot Wind Blows.” If 2019’s often-emotional, Hemingway-esque IGOR was the album to put Tyler, the Creator on top due to its soul-filled edge and tantalizing show of reality, then Call Me If You Get Lost, with its lumberjacks, Baudelaires, jazz breaks, and slithering synthesizers, brings the rapper-producer back-just a tad-to the often controversial absurdity of earlier albums such as Bastard (when he still had an Odd Future), Goblin, and Cherry Bomb.

Tyler the creator call me if you get lost