What’s poppin yall; I don’t ever do video requests and I don’t really ever plan on
it in the future I won’t say never though.
But one individual who has been subscribed to me for some months now asked me to do an
odd future influence video for my series.
Odd Future was on my mind once I started that series a year ago but I kept putting it off.
Then he asked again, and again, and again, and again, and again, AND AGAIN.
I gotta respect the persistence and don’t bother trying to copy what he did because
I’m not gonna do this again.
I put off doing this video because while I knew about odd future and listened to their
music; I was never a part of their movement or into it like most of their fans were.
I did fall into the age range of people who were in their fanbase but I guess I was, I
wouldn’t say too mature at the time, but it didn’t really appeal to me outside of
their music.
Therefore, it would take me much longer to research on the influences they had that weren’t
completely obvious; for my other influence videos I pretty much followed closely all
those movements that happened so it’s much easier and needs minimal if no research.
So if you do like odd future thank the legit patrick for this video; and this is gonna
be my fourth video this week so give your boy a subscription and hit the notification
bell as well as a like or comment to let me know if you want this kind of weekly output
more often.
After Soulja Boy, the floodgates were open for anybody who wanted to make it as a rapper
online but it’s like a dam was holding the waves because there weren’t many that came
immediately after.
It was only a matter of time before a rap group used the internet to cultivate a fan
base and NOBODY was expecting them to be anything like what odd future was.
The last rap group before them to really do well was dipset, and they’re on the other
side of the spectrum.
There has been no other group since as influential except maybe Migos and some people will say
brockhampton but they’re for hipster fags.
If you think lil uzi vert and trippie redd were demonic and frightening to people outside
of rap music; tyler was that for the early 2010s.
He would use dark imagery in both his music videos and album covers and reference 666
or satan but it was REALLY light hearted compared to today.
He just didn’t believe in God and used the shock factor that these topics had in those
years which was A LOT, and it brought young teens to do the exact same.
They would spray paint the abbreviation for Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All everywhere,
draw the donuts, and 666.
It spawned a very large group of edgelord teenagers across the United States and appealed
to suburban kids as well.
Odd Future changed what the image of a rapper was supposed to be; they were REALLY young
and doing whatever THEY wanted.
Lil Wayne had started skateboarding but he was getting clowned and it still was considered
lame in hip hop.
Odd Future didn’t care; not only did they get a lot of kids to start skateboarding,
they really helped out streetwear as a whole with certain brands like dertbag getting big
because of them.
They helped get vans popular again of course only after Lil B, and were wearing colorful
clothing and socks.
The Supreme thing is always controversial because people who never heard about supreme
until odd future will say they put them on which is WRONG.
Supreme was always selling out before odd future and would likely still be huge today
but for me to sit here and tell you that Odd Future didn’t radically increase the RATE
at which supreme was growing, the hype, and largely responsible for them becoming the
mainstream name that they are now, I’d be lying.
Skateboarding culture is seen as cool now by rappers even if they don’t really skateboard;
the thrasher hoodies and shirts, the supreme every rapper cops now, and the vans, the reason
they’re comfortable and even think it’s cool to do these things was because of Odd
Future.
Odd Future showed kids the power that they had when it came to their distaste in chasing
after a label and trying to be molded by them.
They were independent and DIY for a while; doing all the producing, writing, and mainly
music videos which aided in them blowing up, by themselves.
They established such a strong fanbase that supported them that they were able to negotiate
partnerships with labels, they were doing well for themselves before anybody had heard
about them in the mainstream.
Odd Future Records would just do distribution deals with a record label in their early popularity.
We’ve seen many new artists and rappers doing the DIY thing and having success at
it; Brockhampton, Russ, Ugly God, and Kali Uchis.
This is being encouraged more and more as it gives these rappers leverage when the time
comes that they have to negotiate with a label for a deal to get to the next level in their
careers; if they already are self-sustainable, not even that but prospering the more that
they have the less the labels have to do and the more freedom and creative control they
can get, as well as the money of course.
Punk Rock and wild rap shows; while odd future didn’t have the fashion sense of a young
thug, lil uzi vert, lil peep, or trippie redd who LOOK very punk.
They embodied the actual aspects of being anti-industry, anti-establishment, and doing
whatever you wanted however you wanted.
Their shows; as wild as they were, with mosh pits, stage dives, the amount of energy they
put in every night it looked like they couldn’t wait to get out and perform.
Their shows were considered dangerous by the traditional rap base and if metal or rock
fans were to see those comments they’d laugh.
But it wasn’t a lie, they WERE dangerous in comparison to the rap shows before them
and some still right now where rappers are performing like divas and scared to get in
the crowd.
This is something all rappers are trying to emulate today and the biggest being travis
scott but also people like famous dex who has said that odd future and tyler the creator
are his favorite rappers.
Travis Scott brings that same type of energy in the way he orchestrates the crowd and Wifisfuneral
was likely directly influenced by Odd Future if you look at his REALLY old stuff and the
way he’s evolved.
This was just a video on odd future’s influence; let me know in the comments if you would like
a very in-depth video more along the lines of a video essay analyzing Odd Future as whole
and trying to reverse-engineer why they were so popular.
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