The most animated rapper in the game gets, well, animated. The Odd Future ringleader reveals five things you didn’t know about him in a short for Fox ADHD .
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As a collective, Odd Future has evolved into something much more than just your average rap crew. They're producers, TV showrunners and actors, clothing designers, photographers, hell, even carnival organizers. Now, OF leader Tyler, The Creator ventures into the world of animation with help from Fox's Animation Domination High-Def unit with a short called "Five Things You Don't Know About Me."
Here's an 11-second preview of the full animated short, which will premiere here on BuzzFeed this Friday.
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When he's bored and not doing a million and a half of the other things he's involved in, Tyler often finds himself hanging out in the Fox ADHD offices with its head, Nick Weidenfeld, shooting the shit and spewing out ideas that beg to be recorded. Weidenfeld, formerly a development exec at Adult Swim and an executive producer of OF's show Loiter Squad, says one day, one of Tyler's riffs became an idea for an animated short.
"He made some joke about how he likes to put all his chains on when he brushes his teeth, and we were just talking about shorts and I was like, 'Oh, let's go in the booth and just tell me five other things you wouldn't know about... or let's just talk about all the other things you wouldn't know about yourself,'" Weidenfeld remembers.
What resulted was a hilarious, very Tyler, and very vivid list of things. "He just sort of talks like that all the time and no one ever really records it," Weidenfeld says. "It also feels like it's animatable because he's also giving you very visual things."
