Tyler, The Creator - Tyler, The Creator’s Instagram Tribute To Pharrell’s In My Mind lyrics

I was 15 attending summer
School at hawthorne high
Spending most of my nights trying
To find any snippets
Of the album on various german sites then 7
25 06 came imm ranges in different
Styles and sounds and i
Believe thats why i gravitated to it so much

Being 15 black not really "interested" in
What the majority of my
Peers were into, it made me
Feel safe i was optimistic
Always daydreaming and setting goals
So i felt you were directly speaking to me
I remember clancy
Telling me how jimmy iovine
Thought this album was
A "complete fucking failure it didnt work"

But see, it did, just not on the kids he was
Looking at the ones who
Just existedused the popular slanglistened to
What was thrown at themdressed
In clothing that was trending at the
Time not saying thats bad
But of course this wouldnt work
On them but it
Worked on me and i created odd
Future that same summer i was
Actually naive enough to believe you and
Thought i could do all
These amazing things if i really
Tried where i grew up, niggas
Get stuck and never make it
Out jail, dead, shit jobs
Not really growing

It seems like at a certain age
Ideas original thoughts are no longer a
Thing i didnt fall into that
Cycle i’m now a young entrepreneur all
Because i believed you when
You said i could be you were the first
Person i contacted when i pulled off
That mclaren dealership! this is
Getting long so
Uhhh, hbd imm i never had brothers
Uncles or my father around so thank you
For being the male figure i
Gravitated to allowing me to embrace being
Different and trusting my ideas ❤️