14 years ago today, Odd Future (@ofwgkta) dropped "Oldie"—one of their most iconic videos that almost didn't happen. It only did because @tylerthecreator refused to let anyone turn the camera off.
The members of the group told the story of that day in an oral history published by The Ringer in 2022. When Odd Future descended on Milk Studios in Chelsea, the session unraveled fast. The XXL staff "were understandably trying to contain a group of rowdy kids," Mike G recalled, "but we weren't having it."
Someone plugged in an iPhone, "Oldie" came through the speakers, and director Lance Bangs kept his camera rolling over objections from the room. The moment Tyler realized what was happening, he called the shots: "No, f*ck that, Lance, keep shooting this sh*t.” What followed was a single, unedited take of the entire 10-minute posse cut performed live.
For @earlxsweat, freshly back from Samoa and still finding his footing, the whole day had a surreal quality: "It just felt like a cartoon, in the sense that n****s just was doin' whatever they wanted to do." For Tyler, zooming out in real time, the stakes were clearer: “I’ve seen music documentaries, this might be the last time everyone's together so we need to document this."
He was right. "A f*ckin' balloon popped that night, and we all went in our own directions. That was the last time we was all together like that. Still,” Tyler explained. Frank, looking back, arrived at the same place: "The atmosphere reminds me of how it feels to be in a room full of musicians where everyone is improvising and for a brief period it's pure magic. It's the same rush."
Bangs edited the footage on a laptop during a red-eye to Portland. It now sits at over 56 million views. It cost nothing.
Angela Vergara, trumpista colombiana, congresista de extrema derecha, celebraba cuando el ICE detenía en EEUU a sus propios compatriotas.
Pero hace 18 días, el ICE secuestró a su hijo, y hoy ya no le parece divertida la crueldad que tanto aplaudió.
AOC: "How rich is it that she is saying showing up to the scene of a protest with a legally owned weapon should be grounds for a person's death, execution at the hands of the state, by the same party and administration that praises Kyle Rittenhouse."
The media will call today “a few hundred protesters.”
Don’t buy it.
Minnesota shut down. Georgia walked out. Maine rose up.
People marched in brutal conditions, less than 24 hours before a major winter storm, and still flooded the streets to reject ICE raids and Trump’s crackdown.
These clips are just a small sample of what’s happening right now.
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@shopsecondtrack I’ve been following your socials since August for updates on the drop and was able to get both the records I wanted (Freudian and PP). My wife ordered an extra PP since it didn’t sell out for her brother. PLEASE don’t cancel my order, she emailed saying cancel hers instead
this is like some episode of a show where the comic relief side character is separated from the group and when they find him he's the leader of a planet or something.