Tyler took to his Twitter to announce the upcoming tour dates and of course, he added his own special touch to the message:

FEW NEW SHOWS, COME YELL pic.twitter.com/bW4PlvEbQV

— Tyler, The Creator (@fucktyler) March 28, 2016

He will also be putting on a few overseas shows starting in late June. Below are the upcoming tour dates (North America & Overseas) and tickets for Tyler’s shows can be purchased on the GolfWang site.

04/01: San Diego, CA @ Observatory North Park
04/02: Ventura, CA @ Majestic Ventura Theater
04/03: Santa Ana, CA @ The Observatory
04/05: Fresno, CA @ Rainbow Room
04/06: Sacramento, CA @ Ace of Spades
04/08: Chico, CA @ Senator Theatre
04/09: Santa Cruz, CA @ The Catalyst
04/10: Santa Cruz, CA @ The Catalyst
05/25: Tempe, AZ @ TBA*
05/26: Tucson, AZ @ TBA*
05/28: El Paso, TX @ Neon Desert Music Festival
05/29: Austin, TX @ TBA*
06/01: Tulsa, OK @ TBA*
06/03: Kansas City, MO @ TBA*
06/04: Clive, IA @ TBA*
06/05: Omaha, NE @ TBA*
06/07: Minneapolis, MN @ TBA*
06/10: Manchester, TN @ Bonnaroo Festival

* with TACO

06/28 Yekaterinburg, Russia @ TBA
06/29 St Petersburg, Russia @ TBA
06/30 Moscow, Russia @ TBA
07/02 Tilburg, Netherlands @ Woo Hah! Festival
07/05 Vienna, Austria @ Beat the Fish Deluxe ‒ Marshall
07/06 Prague, Czech Republic @ Lucerna Music Bar
07/07 Zamardi, Hungary @ Balaton Sound Festival
07/09 Roeser, Luxembourg @ Rock a Field
07/10 Liege, Belgium @ Les Ardentes
07/15 Dublin, Ireland @ Longitude Festival

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This is like something out of The Man With The Iron Fists. Tyler, The Creator posted the photo above of  Taco performing this admirable gymnastic move using Tyler‘s perfectly round  dome for support. Insane. Gotta love the “Oh shit” look on Taco‘s face. Right around the same time, Taco posted the photo below with the label “Sexy Face.” Enjoy!

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Most rappers are not known for their public display of joy. On one end of the spectrum, we have Kanye West who said himself that “Maybe 90 percent of the time it looks like I’m not having a good time.” On the other end is Tyler, The Creator who displays his smiling face and over-the-top sense of humor on a regular basis on his twitter and instagram accounts. Here are some of the best pics they’ve yielded.

11. Tyler and Tuts, The Cat “I’VE NEVER HAD A PET AND I FUCKING HAD A CONNECTION WITH THIS CAT IT WAS SO GAY HAHAHA” he wrote. Those are undeniably loving eyes.

10. Tyler playing on a kids’ game seeming happy as he holds a bottle of soap.

9. Tyler, seemingly happy in this picture that could be an advertisement for toothpaste. The 21-year-old wrote “IF YOU HATE ME AND EVERYTHING ABOUT ME, LOOK AT THIS PHOTO SO YOU CAN SEE HOW HAPPY I AM AND YOU CAN GET EVEN MORE MAD. NOW PUNCH THE SCREEN.”

8.Tyler with Slim Thug on the streets. Thug might not be all smiles but at least he’s showing some teeth.

7. “CHARLIE WILSON AND I BACK IN MARCH I WAS SO FUCKING STOKED,” as his tongue exposure proves it. Side note: Tyler‘s T-Shirt with the skull on the pocket looks sick.

6. The 22 year old shared this enthusiastic pic, where he’s holding six glorious of pornos. Captioned, “SWAG.”

5. Tyler rubbing his ass on his Taco‘s face while he slept. He seems so sincerely excited and happy. “@youngtaco YOU FAGGOT BITCH MY ASS IN YOUR FACE SLEEPY BITCH”he wrote.

4.  Tyler, all smiles on a scooter, simply claiming, “I stole this.”

3.  Check out this photo of two of our cover boys. Tyler posted this picture with the caption: “WHETHER YOU LIKE @Macklemore OR NOT HE IS FUCKING WINNING! @sethxlewis.” Sometimes happiness and excitement can not be conveyed by a smile.

2. We all know Tyler has a love for Justin Timberlake–who doesn’t really? Prior to meeting the artist he posted pictures such as this one or that one expressively stating that he “WANTED TO MEET HIM SOOOO BAD.”

1. Dark humor is always so compelling. Tyler posted this photo with the caption “#CUTFORBIEBER” as he sadistically smiles while holding a saw. It’s his own way of commenting of the movement Justin Bieber fans started when Biebers behavioral incidents were highlighted in the press. We’re thankful not everyone takes life so damn serious.

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Tyler officially scared the life out of Sway on his morning radio show with the hardest acapella freestyle the Odd Future leader has ever spit. Have you ever had a hot dog with mayonnaise?

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Donald Trump has a confusing relationship with rappers. One minute he’s praising someone, the next he’s suing or insulting that same MC (what up, Mac?).

Backstage at Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Odd Future’s Taco took a seemingly pleasant photo with Trump, while Tyler decided to make it legendary.

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Before there even was a show, photographer Sagan Lockhart was a friend of it. “In the beginning stages of being friends with them, I didn’t even know what Odd Future was,” says Lockhart, reminiscing on the early days of skating with Tyler, the Creator and Taco on the now famous Fairfax Ave. Although you might not recognize his name, things have come pretty far from there; Lockhart’s small pop-up gallery with pictures of just Tyler and Earl this past Wednesday, had fans waiting 6 hours for a mere glimpse.

Not too bad for a 24-year-old. Especially considering if it weren’t for those now famous loiterers he might still be working retail, “…They would just hang out by [Diamond Supply],” he says of how he first met the two at work. Another friend—this guy picks ‘em right— happened to give him a Cannon A-1 prompting Lockhart to shoot anything and everything in site. Growing up in such close contact with Kent Teranishi, a Hustler photographer and Lockhar’ts godfather, he was hooked immediately, “…[I] just wanted to document everything I saw,” he says. “I didn’t think it would ever come to something like this.”

This, being selling Instagram shots for up to $20 a piece. Besides for his iPhone, Lockhart shoots almost exclusively on film just because he likes the way the prints look. His rise includes creating his own magazine, Fersher, a compilation of his and his friends art and photography that sold out all of its first copies. Plus, he contributed to the first Golf Wang book with plans to for his pictures to be included in the second.

The sequel, though, will most likely include more shots of Odd Future in the height of their fame, possibly away from Fairfax, where it all began. But before the boys got big hanging around with them was a bit of a risk. “It was a mix between hell and having a blast,” Lockhart says of first meeting Tyler and Taco at work. “They were shooting fireworks from inside the store into oncoming traffic,” he continues with a laugh. Those fireworks were just the first of many shots for Lockhart, now they just happen to be a bit safer.

PHOTO ARCHIVE:

They were recording crazy tracks in there. They went over the A$AP beat, the “Brand New Guy” shit. I think [the supposed beef is] more of the outside crew shit because A$AP and Tyler, they see each other all the time on Fairfax and there’s no bad blood. But I think people like to think that there’s some other shit going on, but as far as those two are concerned, there’s nothing. I think that’s why the track would be crazy because people think that there’s like beef, so they’ll be like, “Damn, they’re going over their shit?” But we see them all the time. I’ve been in the studio with A$AP. No bad blood as far as I know.

For me the best way to get pictures is everyday life shit. This is a pizza place right next to our OF store. I just walked next door to grab some pizza and he’s just chillin’ there. Like, alright, cool. And then it happened to come out.

[That’s] right next to the store. We just hang out there all day every day, so it’s just really easy to make them do whatever.

Tyler was shooting some stuff for CCS and we’re just hanging out at the park. I was able to get some photos out of that.

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As Tyler, Taco, L-Boy, and Jasper prepare for their second season on Adult Swim, Loiter Squad has managed to move from the cable box to the dressing room. Odd Future has joined forces with Danish retailer Storm and heritage apparel originator Mitchell and Ness to create the exclusive Loiter Squad Capsule Collection. Featuring fresh snapbacks and even fresher lemon shirts, the new merchandise debuted at the Rosklide Film festival in Denmark with the help of a innovative “Container Cinema” flashing the series’ best episodes. While the logos may seem simple and lackluster, the Storm Brothers assure that the T-shirts are designed to the most complex ethical and environmental standards. Apparently, “this high quality is guaranteed by Neutral, the most certified environmentally responsible brand in the work.” The collection is available now at Storm to both the praise and disappointment of many OFWGKA fans who either love or hate the collection respectively.

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