DON’T TAP THE GLASS by Tyler, the Creator

Don't Tap the Glass, Tyler, the Creator's ninth studio album, came out through Columbia on July 21, 2025, eight years to the day after Flower Boy, and he produced all ten tracks himself. He teased it just three days earlier with art installations on his Chromakopia world tour and a website selling merch built around the title, shot down the rumors about guests and track listing, and held a Los Angeles listening party for 300 people where cameras and phones were banned.

The guest list is short: Pharrell Williams, under his own name and as his alter ego Sk8brd, plus Madison McFerrin and Yebba. The music slides between hip-hop and slinky R&B with a restless, body-moving bounce, and "Ring Ring Ring" and "Sugar on My Tongue" went to rhythmic radio as singles that summer. Critics were impressed, and it debuted at number one on the Billboard 200.

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