Odd Future: Oldie

I think it's fair to say that few music videos can sum up a band as Oldie did for Odd Future. And it's far from the most complex of videos.



From the start Tyler could sense that there this was something worth filming and didn't care if it pissed people off or ruined Terry Richardson's photoshoot. This song is ten minutes long. Yet that is not long enough. This is largely due to the fact that almost every member of OF (no doubt Syd was on the beat) gets their camera time to spit their verse. And they spit it well. The mysterious Earl is there. Even Frank Ocean (who looks like the group's babysitter more than ever) can rap. Tyler doesn't hog the lime-light, yet you always get the feeling this is all going to his plan.

The Odd Future boys have clearly stepped up their game with their second mixtape. As a collective, they never really hit it for me, never lived up to the hype - if possible. There was always talent in there, see Hodgy, See Tyler, see Syd - but it was always just a bit of a mess together. But they're most definitely stepping up their game. However at no point in the video do they take it too seriously (see Jasper yelling out he's not a rapper and doesn't know his verse, see the water pistols and lightsaber). It is Odd Future after all.

Tyler's final lines sum up OF perfectly: "They say we ain’t acting right / Always try to turn our fucking color into black and white / But they’ll never change him, never understand him / Radical's my anthem / Turn my fucking amps up / So instead of critiquing and bitching, being mad as fuck / Just admit: Not only are we talented, we’re rad as fuck."