Tyler, the Creator performs at the Coachella Stage during the 2024 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California.on Saturday night — a momentous occasion for one of rap’s biggest stars, coming 13 years after his Coachella debut as a member of Odd Future in 2011.
“These are Epstein hours!” exclaimed the 33-year-old rapper at the start of his set, which he began at 11:40 p.m. on the dot. The stage was set to resemble a campsite outside of the scenic Monument Valley. Dressed as a state trooper, Tyler opened the show by cooking fried eggs inside his makeshift camper trailer, before ejecting himself through the wall.
A week before his set, Tyler had unveiled a billboard on the highway to Indio, telling festivalgoers that he wanted to “see y’all’s faces, not your phone lights” during his show. While that request predictably didn’t come to fruition — fans lost all sense of propriety oncehopped onstage to perform 2017’s “Who Dat Boy” and 2018’s “Potato Salad” — but most of the crowd had no trouble matching Tyler’s playful energy. “You know what’s crazy? I used to hate that n— too!” said Tyler of Rocky.
Tyler wrapped his set just at the strike of one a.m., sending off Coachella with a bang — or several. Closing with a heated performance of his tempestuous 2019 song, “New Magic Wand,” the rapper dodged firecrackers onstage as he ripped from verse to verse… only to suddenly vanish in a plume of smoke. If Tyler was going to headline Coachella, he was bound to leave thousands of festivalgoers laughing and scratching their heads in his wake.Jodie Foster Pulled Robert Downey Jr.