The first day of practice was very difficult! We had to learn a whole entire choregoraphed routine for the biggest award show in the world. On January 23rd, 2020 the Thursday before the Grammy’s we report to Universal Studios lot to practice with the other 20 IGOR Dancers & Tyler The Creator. I gladly accepted of course! And was now going to be working with one of the biggest artists in the world! Keep in mind! I am not a dancer, I am an Actor & Model primarily, so to be chosen as a dancer from that one courageous dance move was astonishing to me.
The next day, I got a message from his team notifying me that I was booked for the 2020 Grammy Awards as one of the IGOR Dancers for Tyler The Creator. Tyler then asks me if I am “Nimble”, so without hesitation, I start dancing and he immediately starts laughing because he was not expecting me to respond in a dance move. Of course, I returned the compliments back and that led to a very organic and fun conversation. We begin talking for a couple minutes and he starts complimenting my style and my chains. In my mind I am thinking “Obviously, I know who you are! Your Tyler The Creator!” You aren’t just a regular civilian named “Tyler”. He introduces himself and says “Hey! I am Tyler”. After I took the photos they sat me down and said one other person will need to speak with me before I leave.ĥ minutes pass and no one has approached me so I start to look at my phone and scroll through Instagram to bypass the time.Īll of a sudden, I get a tap on my back and I turn around and its…TYLER THE CREATOR right in front of me! I am absolutely shocked, but still maintaining my cool because I am a professional, lol! A couple serious photos and then some simple smiling photos. I sign the paper and then they ask me to take some simple pictures up against a white wall. I quickly snap back into reality and its the assistant asking me to sign an NDA because this is a high level secret project. While I am pondering these thoughts, I hear a voice say “Obi. I thought to my self “Could that be….Tyler The Creator” No way! Why would a celebrity come to a casting audition…? The G-Hat & socks could be the Golf Wang. So I quickly turned around and all I could see during that split second turn was a “G-Hat & G-socks” before they ran into the self built dressing room.
I hear a running noise of someone behind me.
I walked into an all white room with 5 people standing around and waited in a chair patiently. I know you’re seething and angry and, ‘Ugh, no one listens to that album!’ These arena tours that are selling out say different, and if you put that much energy into something, maybe everyone will be proud of you too.Saturday January 11th, 2020 I strolled into MILK Studios in West Hollywood, California for an experience I would never forget. Thank you to my whole team, the whole squad… and. You are f*cking so important to rap music… Thank you to all of my friends for being my cheerleaders. He also took the opportunity to once again troll his old rival DJ Khaled, flexing on him once again with both the Grammy win and the sold-out status of his current arena tour. While he wasn’t at the ceremony to accept the award in person - due to the fact that he’s currently on the way to Portland, Oregon for his next Call Me If You Get Lost Tour stop - he did check in with fans to celebrate via Instagram Live. Tyler The Creator is now a two-time Grammy Award winner for Best Rap Album after picking up his second award prior to this year’s ceremony for his 2021 album, Call Me If You Get Lost(and this time it was an actual… y’know… rap album).