Tyler, The Creator - Cherry Bomb: The Documentary lyrics

Very much a work in progress!

Tyler, The Creator is he
Extremely ridiculous? Yes is
He extremely talented? Definitely we
Are about to
Embark on an adventure through the making of
The album: Cherry Bomb take a seat
And relax

Yo, what up, it's Tyler
And I'm about to show y'all
What really went down when
I was recording the album:
Cherry Bomb! The album!

I had a show New Year's 2015
And I haven't came out with music in a while

Damn, finally, you gonna drop a new album



That show fuckin' sucked dick! That show was
Trash what none of these kids
Knew was that I was halfway done
With a brand new album

Tyler recording verse from DEATHCAMP

DEATH CAMP

I'm recording songs, directing these
Videos, doing these photoshoots
The release date is comin'

We look like Puffy and Mase
On our jiggy shit, you feel me?

And right before it releases
This bullshit happens

Tyler here, and I'm makin' this video
Just to prove the fact that I
Don't wanna get sued for
Sampling on my song DEATHCAMP that
Appeared on Cherry Bomb

Now, I rarely sample i usually play the
Instruments or get someone to play
It if I can't and the one
Time I sample for this album, it gets
Rejected, right before I have to turn
The album in i got Coachella, i
Got a tour comin' up, I don't
Really have time but, fuck it
I gotta figure it out

Cole Alexander adding his vocals to DEATHCAMP

Tyler recording clapping

Cole Alexander playing a guitar riff
Tyler playing and recording the tambourine

Tyler recording his verse on DEATHCAMP

Live performance of DEATHCAMP at
Camp Flog Gnaw

BUFFALO

There's obviously an incredible
Intelligence and shit
That I have no opinion on
But he's the dude to make that statement if
He backs it up with intelligent
Thought the problem is, america
Doesn't have the intelligent
Conversation that, they read a headline
But that's
Actually the problem so half of me
Goes, fuck, this ain't my thing
But if this dude's gonna push
A button that causes
Important dialogue, then fuckin' A dude
You know what I mean
'cause I'm not proud of our
Whole shit, it's like, you know what I mean?

I usually just make shit 'cause it look cool
But people's
Brains misinterpret it whatever way
They want it to, man

Offstage filming of BUFFALO

I should be that white face
Character I was in Tamale
Because it's like no deeper underlying shit

At a live performance

I performed this shit in my bedroom
So this shit's personal when
I'm just in my room dancin'
Alone play that shit, travis?
Me and my friends hang out at my house a lot
Whether we're skateboarding or swimming or
Playin' a game or
Someone cooking some food that
Is really really trash

I'm just really hungry, this shit is garbage

Live performance of PILOT

I recorded Cherry Bomb in
Random houses because I
Like the windows and looking
Outside and stuff
And I think why the album has
Such a bright tone to it

Yo

You got cum in your ear laughs

Alright, back to my house, 'cause that's my
That's my comfort zone

PILOT

Tyler records his verse on PILOT in his room

I'm about to put this banana
In my fuckin' ass!
That shit is amazing! Wow! And I'm only on
Thirty-three percent
That charger is fufu i've been gone for
Three hours damn, that shit
Sounds amazing alright
Can I hear it from the top?

Kali Uchis recording an unreleased verse

Tyler and rocky tour texas

Listen, yesterday
Me and young Corey played a game of NBA 2k

What? You gonna come clean, what
'cause I whooped your ass?

You wasn't even playing, nigga! Get
The fuck out of here, nigga!
You wasn't even there, nigga! Ayy
Bro, I'mma come clean, you got me

Jay in first
I'm in third! Where the fuck you at?!

Yo blue! What place did you come in?
Everybody know when you play Mario go-karts
You don't play one race

Coming on this tour
I didn't know what to expect

It's crazy, it kinda
I think it kinda makes me not judge as much

See, this is really us together, like
We chose to do this, this not no higher
Powers, like, I know what this nigga does
No-one, comin' around, giving
This nigga ideas, he gets
With his niggas and he really do what
I do, and be like 'yo, we need
To, ah man, I need to, we need
To do this, do this, do that'
That's real creative shit

And, when you're really not afraid
To be yourself, you're comfortable
It's like a web or a
Umbrella when you're not afraid to be you
You're comfortable, when you're
Comfortable with yourself
You don't have that much hate
In your heart, you're not
That quick to judge
And when you're not that quick to judge
You're open to more things, and when you're
Open to more things
You're not ignorant, and when
You're not ignorant, racism doesn't exist

Mocking Rocky Yo, what up, I'm ASAP Rocky
You gettin' jiggy
Here with my mans, uh, I love bad bitches
That's my fuckin' problem

This nigga Tyler though, almost killed me
And Nico, on Washington Boulevard
The day before the carnival last year
Just because this nigga was listening to
Some fuckass, turnt up Death Grips shit, bro

Yeah, I wrote RUN at like
Nine in the morning i wake up really
Early all the time, and I had
Logged in on Twitter just to
And I saw someone tweet 'bout
To roll up' dude, that's all you do?
And that's how that first line came
'cause I thought to myself
'all y'all niggas smokin' y'all brains
Out' that song is really about a lot of
The gang violence circle:

All y'all niggas smoking y'all brains out
In the car called life take the lame route
Going nowhere fast but you think that you not
Cause you never hesitate to
Take the thang out
In the drop top, pop the trunk then pop pop
At his drop top, took another lame out
Oh you the big nigga? Took a hit nigga?
Well I hope you understand
You ain't shit nigga
Cause them niggas whole purpose
Is to get niggas
And make sure that your mama cry the pain out
Now that gang is out to get you
But you stuck in the same house
Nigga never came out, wow
It's a shame how you got sucked in that life
But hey man at least you got a name now
They say you a "real nigga"
Cause you kill niggas
Nuts for that ice and that
Cream banana peel niggas
Banana clips spill, niggas wanna bang out
For they approval boy
You can't even hang out
That light you hit, it was the light I held
That's why you never ever see
Me with my chains out
I don't need to, truth they don't feed you
Lies what they got on their plate
They gon eat you
They got a homie called Karma he gon meet you
Better look the other way if he ever see you
And run as fast as you can, nigga

Plus, that's in my top three songs to perform

Live performance of RUN in Paris, France
You gotta uh, you gotta follow
Direction watch my hand
Okay? No nigga, don't put your hands up
Just watch (Watch it) my hand i'll do this
And then I'll do this let's try this (Clap)
(Wait, stop, Clap)
(Stop, Clap)
(One, two, one two three)

Proceeds to perform RUN live

Calabasas, california 8pm monday night

Got big arms

What's up with you? Laughs You good? Aight?

Yo, chill bro!

MORE LIVE STUFF

So Chaz, from Toro, one of
My favorite artists ever, there
Was this melody that I had
In my head forever, just
In my head, I'm runnin', I'm
Runnin', I'm runnin', I'm runnin'
I'm runnin', I'm runnin', like
Some weird opera stuff
But I didn't want it to be too
Extra'd out i easily coulda hired a
Lady who sings opera or got one of
The female singers who hit's runs
And coulda, I'm runnin' I'm runnin', just
To emulate a string, but, i know Toro
Would do it perfect, and he does high
Pitch, like, he can do high
He can do low, he has such
A middle that's really good too
So I just stacked all of 'em
And it came out perfect

Toro y Moi plays the chords to
FUCKING YOUNG on his guitar

Those chords are gorgeous i can't do without
'em the day that I met Tony-

Yo, yo yo yo yo! Back to RUN!

I set up, like
All my recording stuff and my instruments
In my living room downstairs

You did it in your regular voice?

Runnin', I'm runnin', I'm runnin-

Look, it doesn't even have to be
High-pitched 'cause, 'cause this is
Remember
The original, the original's, like, fast as
Fuck and pitched high so
But I just couldn't record it at that speed
But that shit is- plays
Instrumental I couldn't record
It that fast and, it's going to
Be higher pitched, but right now
It's- plays instrumental

Runnin', I'm runnin', I'm runnin', I'm
Runnin', I'm runnin', I'm runnin'
I'm runnin'

Follow the keyboard

Runni- might have to overdub it

What you mean?

It's such a weird jump
It's like, jumpin' octaves, it's kinda weird

Re-records his line on RUN

Uh, that last note right here
Try to hold that

Hold it okay

Man, black people are gonna hate this song

I don't see y'all niggas bein' challenged
To jump over a fucking car, jump over a
Trash can with both feet! Where your knees
At, nigga? Where your knees at? Oh, okay!

He clipped that shit!

Trash! Ay, go up, go up! Trunk now! Go up
Trunk!

What, he's not gonna do it
Did I not do it? Did I do it? I Already
Did it i have nothing else to prove

The trunk! It's taller! Do the trunk, it's
Taller! Do the trunk, it's taller! See
Look at him there's always an excuse

What the fuck!

When I made, so, 2SEATER was made at the end
Of 2013, in my room, in like, twenty minutes
Out of boredom
Again i had just got my house, I was in my
Room, no furniture, no nothin'
And, this is cool
Like, one minute and thirty second
Song, but I'm like
I wanna take it somewhere i
Literally had wrote that string
Section, played it, and was like
Okay, add all these instruments
I'mma get real players to
Play this, and then
Hearing it come to life was so sick!

Hollywood hills 5pm 2015

So, that's like the main part i'mma
Use it throughout the song
But that's like the important part um 'cause
(it's) eight bars, for the first four bars
You could
Get, like, riff it, get crazy, but like
When I start
Saying two seater and shit, like that part
You could get
Like soulful, repetitive, just so
It doesn't get, uh
It doesn't get lost in jumble with my vocals

Aaron Shaw begins playing the sax

That sounds amazing just do like
Another pass where
You just fuckin' let it all out
Just do what this tells you

Aaron Shaw begins playing the sax

Alright, alright, alright, you get it
You get it so it's 8 PM, I'm about to record
At Hans Zimmer studio, i'm a little
Nervous 'cause this is my first time
With a actual string section
But, I know it's gonna be
Tight as fuck trust me
A lot of thought was put into this

Doubling things, and tripling-

These pads, they-
So that should actually be A -
Well, if we're doubling lots of-

But I'mma just pan this one-

Coming in with a swell is nice-

It might be easier to have-

Yeah, or, no, it should be
It should be on three dun dun dun dun dun-

But dog, when you get that finished product?
It's all worth it

Begin playing strings

I'm like
What is that? I think I could go higher!

Oh, shit! Why'd you do that?!

I'm starting over i'm starting
Over! That was so

Same night 30 mins later wandering the studio

Hey! How are you!

I'm fine man, how are you?

This is Hans Zimmer if you're
Not familiar with his work
He scored a bunch of movies
Like Spiderman and Despicable Me
And oh yeah, Inception
And a bunch of other crazy shit
'cause he's really talented and the list just
Goes on and on and on and
I got to see his secret little
Stuff in his secret little room

Like, you can't make the same sound

No, exactly, and that's what I love
Is it's totally unpredictable

Is this the one where you just plug in shit?

Yes

Oh my god

And there's a whole back wall
I got all this stuff

But more importantly
I got the nod of approval so sick!

High five! High five! Then you ain't shit
Hoe

Okay, okay, I'm fully not feeling this

Black diamonds, yellow canary diamonds
White diamonds

BROWN STAINS

Tyler records his verse on Brown Stains

I think ScHoolboy Q is a actual shermhead
And no-one can tell me any different he's
My fucking favorite ever
I love him so much he's a shermhead

I produced a song off his first album
I mean, we've been homies ever since, he's
One of the only few rappers I fuck
With, and I had made this beat, it sounded
Like, schizophrenic shermhead, whatever you
Wanna call it
Automatically thought that the tone
Of voice ScHoolboy Q
Has would just sound ridiculous over it i
Hit him up, he came at night
Knocked his shit out in an hour bam

Nigga that really makes me sad

Tyler and schoolboy q recording
Session hollywood ca 2015

ScHoolboy Q records his verse on Brown Stains

We gotta do it again let me

What are you doin'?

Just goin' in, man, you know
Gon' body some shit cuz

What kinda draws are you wearing?

Um

Dude, that's weird

Some Calvin Kleins-

Don't answer! No! No!

Live performance of Brown Stains

What the fuck

This is $80, 000, nigga fashion
Youth, dab, lit, gas emoji, bitch

Why you hiding, Tyler? Where you goin'?

Oh beans it's lit!

What else you get?

What else?

Me and Q both got white Mclarens
But he got it after I dusted him
In his weak ass Porsche of course

It was dope as fuck shout out to
Tyler, we got the same car, it's tight

When I'm not making a song I can drive
Fast to or wild out on stage
I'm tryna figure out the
Right chords and melodies

SINGERS

Tiffany Palmer, onit'sha Shaw and Samantha
Nelson record their part for Find Your Wings

I feel like rap has a timestamp
On it you could listen
To My Cheri Amor by Stevie
Wonder any time frame
Ever a five-year-old could listen to
It a eighty-year-old could
Listen to it it's less
Boundaries with singing songs

Keeping ALL the fuckups too

My boy Austin, who's in a
Band called Slow Hollows
Is really sick with guitar he's playing
On three songs on the
Album, and the things that
I've learned from him, just over
The years made me more comfortable
With who I am, and the things that I
Like, and just learning more stuff
And what keeps
Things fresh is just, new energy, and
Not getting complacent and stuck
Working with these
Three girls was just amazing, they
Knew exactly what I wanted, and
Then in unison, they just sounded
Together, and they were open
And they- they made me feel comfortable

Kali & tyler recording session
Hollywood tuesday 11 pm

Oh, my name's Kali Uchis
Usually he already has something
Ready and he'll
Already have an idea, most of
The time he writes everything
Or he'll have a melody idea obviously
He produces everything
So he really hones in on making
Sure everything is exactly how he
Wants it to be 'Cause, when I met
Him, I had just started singing
I feel like I was still
Really learning about my voice
He definitely made me a
Lot more comfortable and
Experiment more with my range i think what I
Admire most about Tyler, how dedicated he is
How much he really
Wants to make something meaningful
That's gonna be lasting, rather than
Make something that, you know
Will get to radio, or, will be
Something that people listen to right
Now, and then maybe goes away later
I don't think he's
Ever really cared about trends, or, um
He just kind
Of follows what he wants to do, and, um
He works really hard

Unreleased song plays
(possibly called Time Being)

Clem records her part for OKAGA, CA

OKAGA, CA is my favorite song on that
Album, and probably, to me personally
In my top five songs in my discography
I remember hearing Clem a long time ago
And her voice stood out to me
So much it was so high pitched, and like
It almost had this kid-like vibe
To it, to where it was just fun
And she was just like- it
Had no worries in it

Pretend, you're Tido and Jermaine?, to
Youre Michael Jackson leads
So you you're own backup singers

You know, she comes from
This rock background, so
To have her singing in a soul cadence
Was really interesting to me it's not
Many people who know how
To hit those registers and riffs
That I love me
And Frank talk about it all the time
It's few people like Kim Burrell is
One that we always bring
Up, Jasmine Sullivan, um, Alice
Smith, I which- uh, she's
On the OKAGA, CA song on the album, too

ALICE SINGS

I'm Syd, I've known Tyler since I think 2008
So that would be 8 years
The biggest thing that
I've learned from working with
Tyler is to trust
Your ideas i don't agree with all of
His ideas, but when somebody, like
Trusts themselves that much
Makes you question
Yourself if you don't like it
And that's what I really got from him

SYD SINGS

But working with Charlie Wilson
That was a whole 'nother story

FUCKING YOUNG

I don't think I've ever been this stressed
Making a song charlie Wilson took what
I had in my head and made
It come to fruition so perfectly
That I started stressing out on the fact that
I could never do anything that good

CHARLIE RECORDS

What the fuck, I hate this laughs I fully
I fully can't take this

He's a legend
And him taking cues from we was so weird

Charlie sings his part for fucking young

Fucking young video shoot

I'm so sorry! I'm so sorry

This is happening! Oh, my god

It was a two week span where
Everything I had planned for
This album just started to come
Together it was beautiful

SMUCKERS

Kanye west recording session hidden hills 9pm

I gotta figure that shit out!

I see you tryna figure it out!

Hey

Ten years down the line
Niggas gonna be like, sMUCKERS is
Legendary that one's for the
Books, for sure yeah, finally just working
With those two dudes was just crazy!
I remember playing it for
Travis and Lionel, and we was
Like 'oh, shit', like
I really got these two niggas on a song

Fuckin' fire!

And I knew specifically
I wanted Wayne's tone of voice on there

I kinda- He texted me, just like, 'Man
I got this joint' he's like a
Perfectionist, so he's one of those guys
That you know, you, he want
He know exactly what he want from you might
Fuck around and write your verse for you

So, I told him I wanted him
Over, and he was like, 'alright
Cool' i sent
Him my parts with his parts out, and
Then he just laid his shit down
And it was great by then went to
'Ye house, played it for him, he
Was like, 'cool' wayne sent me his shit
The day after I played it, i went back
The day after Wayne sent it and played it for
'Ye again, and he heard me and Wayne verse
And he was like shakes his head
Ripped his paper out of his
Notebook, balled it up, and started a new
And it was ideas on there, and he
Was like, 'Y'all niggas really 'bout to make
Me rap and go in, like
I ain't had niggas makin' me want
To do that in so long'

First of all, Tyler changed the game
Maybe I probably had online, and I knew- I
Wouldn't say because people might
Think it was too gross to put in a rap
Or it didn't go with the whole vibe