Odd Future MC's 'Yonkers' video up for Video of the Year and Best New Artist.
By Rob Markman
Tyler, the Creator
Photo: MTV News
Who says Tyler, the Creator is a foul-mouthed malcontent?
Well, the foul-mouth part is true, but when the Odd Future standout learned that his video for "Yonkers" received two MTV Video Music Awards nominations, he couldn't have been happier, as seen in his Wednesday night tweets.
"Video Of The F---ing Year. What The F---," he wrote before tweeting that he was about to "Pass The F--- Out."
Tyler's self-directed "Yonkers" clip was uploaded to Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All's YouTube page back in February. Now five months and 15 million views later, the black-and-white vid earned the Goblin rapper VMA nominations in the Best New Artist and Video of the Year categories.
Simple-yet-effective, "Yonkers" starts off with the rapper seated on a stool, performing the song's lyrics while playing with a large cockroach, which he later vomits. A visibly disturbed Tyler continues to rap the track's second verse, stripping off his shirt then putting his neck in a noose. In the video's shocking ending, the MC stands up on the chair and kicks the stool from under his feet as his legs dangle in a simulated suicide. "Damn, I'm Looking At The Video Treatment I wrote In This Blackberry Back In Jan. F---!" Tyler wrote beside a link to the clip.
In all, the rapper/ producer/ video director fired off more than 40 reactionary tweets, even threatening to go on a killing spree if he lost Video of the Year to Bruno Mars. Still, through the profanity-laced celebration, Tyler is just overjoyed: "So F---ing Happy F---!!!" he tweeted. "I Cried Legit. F--- it."
The 28th annual MTV Video Music Awards will air live on Sunday, August 28, from the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles at 9 p.m. ET/PT. See the list of nominees, revisit last year's highlights and vote for your favorites in the general categories by visiting VMA.MTV.com.
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