The Things I Carry: Tyler, The Creator
Odd Future’s young boss empties his pockets for photographer Mark Peckmezian.
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During our cover shoot for our 95th issue, FADER asked Tyler, the Creator to empty his pockets for a special edition of The Things I Carry. Photographer Mark Peckmezian took snaps of the items Tyler holds dear: a wad of cash, car keys, an inhaler, and a Golf'd out iPhone.
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"The only difference now is that I can buy shit," Tyler told me while we hung out at his mansion. He isn't too flashy: he wears two chains but keeps them tucked under his shirt. When I'm in town, he picks up the bill for each meal but is otherwise low-key, shopping for Doritos in CVS. I ask him what the last thing he splurged on was, and he points to an electric guitar.
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"My cousin taught me how to drive," Tyler told me. "She would lend me her car to go run to the store and shit. I always wanted to learn how to drive when I was younger. I couldn't wait."
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Tyler has asthma. He keeps his nebulizer in a soft, Gap Kids-branded cooler on the floor of his bedroom, and there are inhalers littered all around. In bold, primary colors, they looked like something he could've designed.
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Tyler and I are both 23, and we talked about how kids our age grew up alongside the personal computing wave. "When we got dial-up, we were still babies," he said. "So we can get a phone and know how to use it automatically."
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