Tyler, the Creator releases new album ‘Don’t Tap the Glass’
Surprise follow-up to 2024's Chromakopia features 10 songs
By Daniel Kreps
As promised, Tyler, the Creator released his new album Don’t Tap the Glass on Monday morning, just days after the rapper revealed his surprise follow-up to 2024’s Chromakopia.
The 10-track LP, out via Columbia Records, is the rapper’s ninth album. It clocks in at 28 minutes and 30 seconds, with no special guests noted on the track list. Tyler, the Creator wrote on social media that the music is “MADE FOR BODY MOVEMENT. FULL VOLUME.” Listen here.
“I asked some friends why they don’t dance in public and some said because of the fear of being filmed,” Tyler shared in a social media statement. “I thought damn, a natural form of expression and a certain connection they have with music is now a ghost. It made me wonder how much of our human spirit got killed because of the fear of being a meme, all for having a good time. I just got back from a ‘listening party’ for this album and man was it one of the greatest nites of my life. 300 people. No phones allowed. no cameras, just speakers and a sweatbox. Everyone was dancing, moving, expressing, sweating.”
He continued: “It was truly beautiful. I played the album front to back twice. It felt like that pent up energy finally got released and we craved the idea of letting more of it out there was a freedom that filled the room. a ball of energy that might not translate to every speaker that plays this album but man did that room nail it. This album was not made for sitting still, dancing, driving, running. Any type of movement is recommended to maybe understand the spirit of it. Only at full volume.”
During his show in Brooklyn on July 18, Tyler shouted out the album title and outside his concert at Barclays Center there was a massive figure enclosed in a clear box that read “Don’t Tap the Glass.” Tyler confirmed the album and its impending July 21 arrival (as well as a preorder page) on social media soon after.
A few days prior, the rapper hinted that something would be heading to fans next week, with Tyler sharing images on Instagram of a Louis Vuitton bag, a mannequin’s head, and a trumpet player in a band uniform all labeled with the date July 21. Last month, Doechii and Tyler previewed their new Pharrell-produced track ‘Get Right‘ during Louis Vuitton’s fashion show in Paris. It’s unclear if the collaboration will appear on Don’t Tap the Glass.
Don’t Tap the Glass is set to be Tyler’s ninth album following last year’s Chromakopia, which arrived just nine months ago in October 2024. That album featured a hefty list of collaborators including Doechii, Childish Gambino, GloRilla, Lil Wayne, Lola Young, Santigold, Teezo Touchdown, Schoolboy Q, and Sexyy Red; prior to Don’t Tap the Glass’ arrival, a similarly all-star guest list was rumored, but Tyler shot down those rumors on social media this past weekend: “NONE OF THESE PEOPLE ARE ON THIS, I DID NOT POST THIS INFO I DONT KNOW WHERE YOU GOT THIS FROM TO CONFIRM IT.”
Don’t Tap the Glass Track List:
1. Big Poe
2. Sugar On My Tongue
3. Sucka Free
4. Mommanem
5. Stop Playing With Me
6. Ring Ring Ring
7. Don’t Tap That Glass / Tweakin’
8. Don’t You Worry Baby
9. I’ll Take Care of You
10. Tell Me What It Is