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The second and final day of Tyler, the Creator’s Camp Flog Gnaw festival, making its return after a four-year hiatus, was led by top Grammy nominee SZA and featured winning sets from an array of left-field, genre-hopping pop acts.August Brown, Kenan Draughorne and Mikael Wood caught all the action from a sold-out Dodger Stadium.Articulating the perils of millennial romance How quotable are SZA’s lyrics about the cursed complexities of millennial romance? So quotable that one fun thing to do during her festival-closing…

Bringing a stripped-down version of her SOS Tour to the grounds outside Dodger Stadium on Sunday night, SZA closed out Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival — the two-day music festival curated by Tyler, the Creator — with a stylish and soulful flourish. The performance was a victory lap of sorts for the singer-songwriter born Solána Imani Rowel, her first since her nine Grammy award nominations — a record this year — were announced on Friday. Pulling from her critical and commercial 2022 smash album SOS, her…

The Hillbillies (Kendrick Lamar + Baby Keem) Image Credit: Carlos Gonzalez/the1point8 for Rolling Stone Baby Keem (Left) and Kendrick Lamar (Right) perform together as The Hillbillies on the first night of Tyler, the Creator’s Camp Flog Gnaw music festival. The pair released “The Hillbillies” earlier this year and were momentarily joined onstage by Tyler himself, who appears in the song’s music video with a Camp Flog Gnaw 2023 button in front of Dodger Stadium.   The Hillbillies (Kendrick…

Day 1 of Tyler, the Creator’s sold-out Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival, held at Dodger Stadium, featured Compton’s Kendrick Lamar alongside his cousin, Baby Keem (a.k.a the Hillbillies), a pair of Latin music stars, brand new Grammy nominee Ice Spice and the festival organizer himself. The Times’ August Brown, Kenan Draughorne and Mikael Wood took it all in from Chavez Ravine.‘Y’all still care’ Tyler, the Creator made it one song into his triumphant Camp Flog Gnaw performance Saturday before he needed a beat to revel in the…

Angelenos, it seems that Tyler, the Creator and his Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival will see you again — real soon. The annual hip-hop festival will return to Dodger Stadium for two days this fall after a four-year hiatus, the “Igor” rapper announced Wednesday on social media. The new Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival will be held Nov. 11-12. Tyler, the Creator (real name Tyler Okonma) and the Flog Gnaw account shared matching festival posters to their Instagram stories. The rapper also shared a photo collage of him holding up a Camp…

Tyler, the Creator’s beloved L.A. festival Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival will not take place this year—although fans can look forward to a return in 2023.The artist’s manager Chris Clancy explained to Billboard, “It’s really not that deep. Tyler toured all year and was busy with a number of projects. Reading the tea leaves and what’s happening with festivals coming out of the pandemic, we thought it would be best to come back next year.”The all-year tour in question was in support of the Best Rap Album Grammy-winning Call Me If…