Tyler, the Creator: From Hawthorne High to Apple Music's Artist of the Year

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Tyler the Creator has spent the past few days quietly cementing a new chapter in his biography where elder statesman energy meets hometown hero. According to the Los Angeles Times, after being named Apple Musics Artist of the Year for a run that includes his eighth studio album Chromakopia and the summer dance record Dont Tap the Glass, he went back to where it all started, surprising seniors at Hawthorne High School, his old campus. Students expecting a routine spirit rally instead got Tyler onstage giving a loose, funny but pointed speech about not letting who you are today define who you can become, then personally pointing kids out in the crowd and handing out new iPad Pros in an Oprah style you get an iPad flourish. The visit doubled as an Apple Music branded event, with local Black owned vendors and a DJ, signaling a deepening of Tylers relationship with the tech giant that has backed his recent releases and crowned his year.

On the music front, his guest appearance with Clipse has been reenergized by the December 10 release of the P O V video, which Hypebeast reports was directed by Cole Bennett and pulled from the duos Grammy nominated album Let God Sort Em Out. The visual keeps Tyler in the center of the most critically praised rap moment of the season, reinforcing his ongoing role as a tastemaker collaborator rather than just a solo act.

Meanwhile, coverage from outlets like AOL and fan chatter across Instagram and X continue to orbit Dont Tap the Glass and its breakout track Sugar on My Tongue, with commenters calling it his most purely joyful record yet and pushing ongoing think pieces about his evolution from provocateur to polymath hitmaker. That ongoing praise is more slow burn than breaking news, but it underlines why the Apple Music honor and multiple Grammy nominations feel less like a spike and more like a coronation.

There are scattered social media rumors of surprise appearances and unannounced merch drops tied to his Golf Wang and Le Fleur brands, but as of now no major outlet or the brands official channels have confirmed anything beyond their standard holiday pushes, so those whispers remain firmly in the speculation column.

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