The Cali collective Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All plan their own apocalypse for 2012. -:- .. _. Boo-yah! Left to right: Left Brain. blow-up doll amidst newspaper Domo Genesis. Hodgy Beats. clippings covered with anarchy sym- group's resident stoner persona, Each one is studded with inventive bols and swastikas. Finally, there's Transmitting live from the city cracks up: "Oh, my God, that was so and surreal musical moments, the still-unsolved mystery of Earl, that has mainlined Radio Disney, gay! " patently offensive gross-out sexual who disappeared from public view Lindsay Lohan and tiger blood into Hodgy hits the bong, a two-foot scenarios, and astonishing verse- last year but is evoked constantly by the corroded arteries of middle glass piece with "Fucking Awe- work that builds on the boldness of the group in its "Free Earl" tagline, America for the past decade, the some" stickers emblazoned on it late-'90s Eminem. which creates additional intrigue. members of the anarcho/hip- gifted by a fan . Something hits back The albums were buttressed by Thrown all together in a blender, it's hop/skate-kid collective Odd Future in him. "I think I just stabbed my a series of videos and visuals ce- enough to make a jaded scenester Wolf Gang Kill Them All need to lungs," he tells us. But it's only menting the Odd Future vision, bleed out of her nipples, carve the break it to you harshly on how they weakness exiting the body. So, natu- which channels hipster kitsch group's initials onto her arm and decided to make music, conquer the rally, he hits it again. through social media, Internet porn mail a picture of her butthole to world, shove it in your face and About time that hip-hop-hell, and skatepunk injury/gore fetishes. Tyler in appreciation. Believe me, swaggle it around a little bit. pop music in general-hosted a There's the video "EARL" by the it's happened. 'We all just came together, like a presence like this, right? For, while group's reigning rap prodigy, Earl Regardless, you gotta make like big-ass bukkake, " says Hodgy Beats. the rest of us were anesthetized by Sweatshirt, which features the Obama and understand. The barrage "A big-ass ejaculation," assents mainstream hip-hop's champagne members of OFWGKTA drinking a of image memes and You Tube Left Brain, the group's second pro- kisses and caviar dreams, Odd Fu- vile potion concocted of weed, a 40 videos-plus thaf Jimmy Fallon per- ducer and Hodgy's partner in the ture have been planning their insur- and some pills and then dying a formance wherein Tyler terrorized Odd Future spin-off unit Mel- rection straight outta the Pasadena gruesome death. There's also Felicia Day and head-humped the lowHype. "We all came together." high-school system with no less "VCR," which features Odd Future host-all depict OFWGKTA as a Domo Genesis, the chill, unmov- than eleven albums, all released for leader/producer/MC Tyler the Cre- bunch of smartass kids •.• and that's ! The rules don 't apply: Smoke steals Domo·s face. all just creative by nature, weed is like gas on the flame, it's like we smoke weed and then it's like, "Oh, shit, I got a better vision of where I wanna go.'" Hodgy Beats gets up close and personal 'We were secluded from the begin- want anybody dictating what we say ning, so we were never really the or trying to take our creative control kids out being all popular." away from us. Like, we have it right For now, this interview allows now-it's working. There's no rea- the original lineup's resident ston- son to change.· ers-Hodgy Beats, Left Brain and So one better recognize that Domo Genesis-to chill in this when this group attacks anyone- mammoth loft space in downtown most notably Steve Harvey, B.o.B. LA while Tyler the Creator presides and hip-hop bloggers 2dopeboyz- from a distance, staying aloof but they mean it, for better or worse. I keeping a watchful eye on the pro- bring up a female music-industry ceedings. "Its my birthday eve! pal who bristles at the rape refer- Hightimes shoot in two hours!" ences in the group's lyrics, and Domo tweeted on the day of the Hodgy fires back: "That's because shoot. "Boutta be real fucking she probably had that ass tapped high. Always wanted to be in this before, that's why. Bitch, tuck her. damn magazine." Nigga, we rap about what we Not everyone in the group shares wanna rap about. If she don 't like the trio's enthusiasm for weed: it, tuck her.'' and they spend their lives working on Though Tyler is tolerant, he's an gas on the flame," Domo notes. "It's It will take some doing to recon- it. While Fat Possum gets ready to asthmatic straight-edger who occa- like we smoke weed and then it's cile this attitude with the collective's release a new-and-improved version sionally chafes at the fumes that like, 'Oh, shit, I got a better vision of aspirations for Grammies and VMAs. of the second MellowHype LP, Black- trail these guys. "Don't smoke where I wanna go with [a track].' Now is the moment, though, for enedWhite, the duo have already fin- around the nigga before the show!" That's how it is for us.'' them to show and prove-and for ished their follow-up, Numbers. Hodgy warns. "That nigga start trip- Coupled with the group's tight- young artists, the possibilities are Meanwhile, Domo has recorded most pin'. We get this room: 'You guys knit composition and tightly focused always limitless and unrestrained. of the sequel to his debut mixtape, gotta smoke in there!"' work ethic is a daredevil attitude They're supposed to be. Rolling Papers (which touched off Coming of age in a city that that bespeaks their skater roots. Because just you wait for the some minor discord among hip-hop sprouts dispensaries like Barry Videos from their Thrasher party first Odd Future collective LP, which fans when Wiz Khalifa also used the Bonds has retainers, the trio can re- performance at SXSW show Hodgy they'll commence as soon as Earl title for his latest release), and he cite a litany of strains tbat rock it and Tyler jumping into the crowd returns. Forget Wu Tang; these pledges to expose his newfound au- tight: Mystery Kush Lakers' from 20-foot speaker towers and guys are hunting even bigger game. dience to facets of his personality be- Kush from Cali's Finest for Domo, overhangs, while the group's Funny "It's 2011-you gotta forget about yond the sedate stoner verses he's Granddaddy and Purple strains for or Die collaboration devolves into a Michael Jackson and the fucking dropped so far. Hodgy, and OG for Left Brain-as litany of antisocial behavior against a Beatles and shit .... " Left Brain says. OFWGKTA's free time up to this well as the Blue Dream they're smarmy record-company executive. "Have your ears ever jizzed be- point has been spent creating at a smoking for this piece. There's no To date, Tyler has signed a nonex- fore?" Hodgy interjects. "Forget great remove from the cool kids and question that the high factors into clusive deal to release his second about Michael Jackson-the Odd hipsters who now flock to them. "We their creative output, whether it's LP, Goblin, on XL, and their in-house Future album is gonna be the best don 't really hang out with everyone Left Brain's woozy, screw-influ- R&B/pop crooner Frank Ocean has album of all time.'' else anyway, so we never had a enced production style, Hodgy's odd- scored production work with Bey- "It's about to be 2012. It's Odd problem with people [we know] run- ball non-sequiturs, or Domo's once. But they swear autonomy from Future time right now," Left Brain ning up to us and stuff," says Hodgy trance-like diction. 'We're all just here on out. Hodgy feels that "record insists. "The future is now-and it's of the group's newfound popularity. creative by nature, [so] weed is like labels are all tucked up. We don't ours." * .