What made Flower Boy so immediately different from other Tyler projects was the way it harnessed the energy we expected while bottling it in a lush and diverse musical landscape. Hiding the metronome pacing the track was Tyler, the Creator, whose lyricism was sharp as ever, cultivating a garden of sounds promoting Rex Orange County’s moody timbre, a mid-track music break overflowing with Tyler’s thoughts, and an effortless transition into the Frank Ocean assisted “Where This Flower Blooms.” Never has an opening track been more aptly titled than this introduction. On first listen, something about Flower Boy was immediately endearing but unfamiliar-well maybe not immediately endearing, the “bitch, fuck” that opens the album isn’t necessarily inviting-and opening track “Foreword” encompassed this difference. The result is an entirely new way to experience Tyler’s magnum opus. We went through the entire account, from top-to-bottom, to collect every single post that corresponds with any of the album’s 14 tracks. The account held hundreds of never-before-seen images and videos from the “Flower Boy” sessions, chronicling the album’s creation from its earliest stages. This past summer, Tyler, the Creator unveiled a secret Instagram account that he’d been hiding for years.
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