Tyler, The Creator Reveals "Call Me If You Get Lost" Album Title Meaning While On Tour

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The "She" hitmaker is back on tour, fresh off his big win at the Grammys.

Tyler, The Creator is on a roll. Fresh off his major success of taking home Rap Album of the Year at the Grammy Awards, the 31-year-old has headed back out on his Call Me If You Get Lost tour, accompanied by Vince Staples, Kali Uchis, and Teezo Touchdown. 

As Complex reports, during a recent show in Portland, Oregon, Tyler took a moment to get some things off of his chest from up on stage, giving us insight into how he named his 2021 release.

Tyler, The Creator Reveals "Call Me If You Get Lost" Album Title Meaning While On Tour
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The California native began by explaining that, following the arrival of 2019's Igor, he "noticed how much rap music changed [he] and his friends' lives," and wanted to take some time to brag about the things that are important to him.

"When I sat Call Me If You Get Lost, I don’t mean when you don’t know what to do. I mean when you call me, I want you to be telling me the shit that you on, the shit that you doing," the "Yonkers" rapper told the crowd.

"You out in the world getting lost doing your shit. I don’t want n*ggas calling me like, 'Oh, I'm sad, I don't know' — no, f*ck that. Call me and let me know that you on your shit ’cause I’m on my shit, and maybe we can get on that flight and meet up and see what the f*ck we on. That’s what I meant by that."


Elsewhere during the Oregon show, Tyler spoke on the impact that DJ Drama's Gangsta Grillz series has had on him, even inspiring some of his earlier work with Odd Future, before giving flowers to Q-Tip, whose 1999 Amplified album inspired his most recent work.

"[Q-Tip] was the weird backpack n*gga that put this album out where he was like, 'Hey y’all, don’t get it twisted. I’m f*cking whoever, I’m driving whatever, I’m doing whatever. Without that album, Call Me If You Get Lost wouldn’t exist, so thank you Q-Tip for setting the blueprint."

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Hayley Hynes is the former Weekend Managing Editor of HotNewHipHop, she stepped down after two years in 2024 to pursue other creative opportunities but remains on staff part-time to cover music, gossip, and pop culture news. Currently, she contributes similar content on Blavity and 21Ninety, as well as on her personal blog where she also offers tarot/astrology services. Hayley resides on the western side of Canada, previously spending a year in Vancouver to study Fashion Marketing at Blanche Macdonald Centre and Journalism at Mount Royal University in Calgary before that. She's passionate about helping others heal through storytelling, and shares much more about her life on Instagram @hayleyhynes.
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