Odd Future could be no more if Tyler, the Creator's cryptic tweets are to be believed.
Pour one out for Odd Future.
If Tyler, The Creator's cryptic tweets are to be believed, the hip-hop collective known as Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All (OFWGKTA) may be no more.
On Wednesday night, Tyler appeared to be expressing some public nostalgia for the group.
After posting a link to an Instagram photo of the group from 2010, Tyler reminisced on Twitter.
Most have interpreted that "7 letters" refers to the initials for the group, OFWGKTA. News that Odd Future may be disbanded should not come as a total shock, but it still sent the internet into a frenzy - one that seems to have taken Tyler a bit by surprise according to his tweet from this morning: "WHAT THE HELL DID I WAKE UP TO."
Frank Ocean, a founding member whose first solo album Channel Orange was met with popular and critical acclaim, split from the group last year and fired the manager and publicist they shared.
Ocean is expected to release his sophomore album, which he worked on at Abbey Road studios with Rick Rubin, later this year.
Odd Future members Earl Sweatshirt and Domo Genesis have focused on solo pursuits as well. Other members have split into subgroups like MellowHype (Hodgy Beats, Left Brain), and The Internet (Syd Tha Kyd, Matt Martians).
The young, upstart group that set out to troll everyone has seen a shift in priorities as its members have gotten older, and it seems the group just couldn't weather that change intact.
Maintaining the discipline to keep that many voices together isn't easy - just ask Wu-Tang Clan, which, after surviving its share of rifts over the last 20-plus years, is still putting out new music.
Earlier this year, Complex magazine wrote what may well be an autopsy of the group, which hasn't released an album together since their 2012 debut "The OF Tape Vol. 2." Prior to its release, the collective dropped several mixtapes. But Tyler and Earl haven't recorded new music together since "Sasquatch" in 2013.
In an interview last year with The Fader, Tyler said of Earl, "That's my n*****. We just aren't as close as we were, but I'm aware and smart enough to know, okay, shit changes. Shit changes, people get older, people's goals change. As f***ing outlandish and outspoken as I am, I don't like confrontation. I'm not a piece of shit, man. I'm fair to everyone."
The Australian site cited a 'heightened threat level' as the issue.